Monthly Archives: April 2012

Tuesday Poem: ‘In the Tree House at Night’ by James L. Dickey

And now the green household is dark. The half-moon completely is shining On the earth-lighted tops of the trees. To be dead, a house must be still. The floor and the walls wave me slowly; I am deep in them … Continue reading

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Tuesday Poem: ‘The Poets’ Birthday’, a collaboration by 26 poets

The shyest sparrow’s supplications in the early evening trees are a careful arpeggio – each note liberates a flotilla of leaves fleeting, indeed, left scattered as archipelago in a dew-grass sea. The song’s begun: feathered entreaties lift from every hedgerow, … Continue reading

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Tuesday Poem: ‘when the magnolia speaks’ by Helen Vitoria

when the magnolia speaks she will say, the air is burnt my dark eyes are disappointed at the gutters filled with bones often, I have looked for the word: resurrection under the darkest parts of me * Helen Vitoria is  the … Continue reading

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Tuesday Poem: ‘The bottle of oil I was late sending John’ by Ian Wedde

From Three regrets and a hymn to beauty This poem will mimic ordinary speech So well, you won’t tell the difference, Even though ordinary speech would never say Something like that. Ordinary speech Does not know it is ordinary Until we … Continue reading

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Tuesday Poem: ‘After the Big Reading’ by Rupert Fike

I end up at the reception with Joel …..where we pretend deep conversation while tracking the visiting great man, …..Robert Bly, trapped in the galley kitchen by a circle of the overly after-shaved …..whose manly Ho-Ho-Ho!s annoy us because there … Continue reading

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