
Nicholas Friedman – Distraction Display
Some birds, to fend
against predators,
will fake a battered
or broken wing
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Sonia Greenfield – Alternate Facts
We never thought it could happen here—
the poisoned, the disappeared—
these tunnels a network of news channels—
server room, keyboards, screens aglow
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Sam Witt- You Drowned, to an Underworld Hospital, to Your .357 Magnum Sinking Down Forever to the Harbor Bed
QUANTUM STATE OF THE CONFLICT DIAMOND
STILL THROWING FIRE FROM THE PAGES OF YOUR NOTEBOOKS 1
At the harbor, in the smallest hour of this
(Death stuff for sure), this softly tendered now, the Youngest Day,
this silvery clarion blast: I have no distance.
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~TRIBRACH Poetry Diary ~
A friend had to take his wife off life support last night….
If I remember the story of this poem correctly, it was written at a time when the poet was anticipating the loss of her husband, Donald Hall, from cancer. He recovered, but she herself died at the age of 47. Hall wrote several books of poetry and essays to try to help him memorialize her and survive her loss.
Jane Kenyon – Let Evening Come
Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.
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