General/Singular
By Poetry Issue 110
The trees of evening are filled, a sieve of leaves and small birds, the resident choir offering an evening orison of twitter. But look! high on the power line a singular sentinel robin conducts the evening’s benediction of western light glittering across the bay, between the islands, all the way to Canada. Luci…
Read MoreSeptember
By Poetry Issue 110
Summer already fading, out of the question. Light / arrives at an oblique angle. Scatters of rain. Yet here / we are, alive and attentive
Read MoreWhen We Say It’s the Little Things
By Poetry Issue 110
It’s the taste of that first sip / of coffee, rich and strong, the Mr. Coffee cup warmer / on your desk. It’s having the right pen.
Read MoreNot So Much an End as an Entangling
By Poetry Issue 110
And then the angel pulled, just slightly, / on one of the threads / composing the linen / the painter had tacked to his stretcher.
Read MoreThe Double Lamp of Solitude
By Poetry Issue 110
Occasionally, she would indulge / in controlled acts of remembrance, / letting the distant world intrude. / She found this sometimes helpful / to her investigations, but a little / went a long way.
Read MoreThe Lamp of Art
By Poetry Issue 110
Beginning and beginning again, / the eye opens to see the border / of its galaxy and finds there a snake.
Read MoreTo the Ram’s Horn I Cannot Sound
By Poetry Issue 110
The sound I imagine / you make has to / hold me and wake / me to its own kind / of internal return.
Read MoreVessel
By Poetry Issue 110
But innocence / / Is not responsibility / cleansed by command / And water, lifted, can but flee / the trembling hand.
Read MorePlague Psalm 90
By Poetry Issue 110
A psalm for the plague year by Philip Metres: “Loss, you have been our regent, / Refusing the refugees / you sent. / / Truly we’re boxed in an annex / Of the mansion / of your text.”
Read MoreReunion
By Poetry Issue 110
I felt / the soil-dark downward / proof of being, the earth / an appetite, an almost-love, the air / a meeting ground, / the whole of seeing / seeable
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