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Today's poem is "The House Rhapsody"

from Crazyhorse

John Gallaher is the author of three books of poetry, including The Little Book of Guesses (Four Way Books) and Map of the Folded World (University of Akron Press, 2009). Recent poems appear in FIELD, Denver Quarterly, and The Best American Poetry 2008. He lives in rural Missouri where he co-edits The Laurel Review.The poems in this issue come from a manuscript that he is writing with G.C. Waldrep, titled Your Father on the Train of Ghosts.

Other poems by John Gallaher in Verse Daily:
May 7, 2009:   "Duly Noted" "Every now and then you've simply got to empty it all out..."
January 23, 2009:   "What We're up Against" "On the way home from the funeral..."
June 8, 2007:   "Earth-tone Anecdote" " They are speaking in the other room..."
May 12, 2007:   "When I Say World I Mean Please" " We begin somewhat after the beginning, in..."
January 4, 2007:   "A Guess Is Spiritual Then, & Will Try to Help You" " Two pregnant women are walking together under the portico...."
June 10, 2006:   "Anecdote of the Field" " The children are running across the field, each..."
May 26, 2005:  "No Encores. No Autographs." ""When I was little, and could float..."

Books by John Gallaher:

Other poems on the web by John Gallaher:
"The Poem from the Poem: Ars Poetica II"
Three poems
"Bomb Went Off"
"On Your Brilliant Escape"
"A Guidebook to When Things Were Better" "A Guidebook to The Afterlife"

John Gallaher's Blog.

John Gallaher according to Wikipedia.

About Crazyhorse:

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Other poems from Crazyhorse in Verse Daily:
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June 29, 2009:   "The Euphoria of Peoria" by Dean Young
January 9, 2009:   "Go On, Sure, Why Not" by Gail Wronsky
January 8, 2009:   "Psalm against a Rapture" by K. A. Hays
January 7, 2009:   "In the hospital parking lot" by Marianne Boruch
July 26, 2008:   "Fire" by Edip Caserver, translated by Richard Tillinghast and Julia Clare Tillinghast
July 21, 2008:   "(detail)" by Billy Collins
January 6, 2008:   "bearing on the glory of love" by Deborah Bogen
January 5, 2008:   "The Dime-Store Parakeet" by Gary Soto
June 15, 2007:   "O Mouth Fable" by Elena Karina Byrne
June 12, 2007:   "Eat This" by Nance Van Winckel
June 11, 2007:   "Inside the Body" by Nathan Hoks
December 24, 2006:   "Northwest" by Stacie Cassarino
December 21, 2006:   "If We Are Pretty Ghosts. Hammered In" by Kerri Webster
December 18, 2006:   "Salt" by Gary Soto
June 11, 2006:   "Eight" by Todd Smith
June 10, 2006:   "Anecdote of the Field" by John Gallaher
June 7, 2006:   "Bitterness" by Charlie Smith
June 5, 2006:   "Again (Wrightsville Beach)" by Robert Creeley
December 23, 2005:   "Spell for Setting the Sun" by Susan Meyers
December 20, 2005:   "And the Wound Says" by Nance Van Winckel
December 18, 2005:   "The Elephant's Graveyard" by David Wagoner
May 19, 2005:  "Levels" Alexandra Teague
May 18, 2005:  "Poem with No Moral at the End" Charlie Clark
November 28, 2004:  "Spring and Winter, Coeval" by Charles M. Israel, Jr.
November 26, 2004:  "Botanists Who Feel Excluded Rejoice" by Anthony Lacavaro
May 23, 2004:  "Template" by A. V. Christie
May 21, 2004:  "Is More Than" by Susan Hutton
May 17, 2004:  "Solar Ice" by Paul Mariani
December 12, 2003:  "East Dakota" by Edward Haworth Hoeppner
December 4, 2003:  "May Suspensions" by James McCorkle
November 27, 2003:  "Reservoir" by Doug Sanders
May 14, 2003:  "Owls in the City Hills" by D. R. Goodman
May 13, 2003:  "The Sightstop" by Bill Knott
January 26, 2003:  "To His Mistress Going to Bed" by Nathan Hoks
January 21, 2003:  "The Teller is the Only Survivor of the Fairy-Tale Ending" by Mark Yakich
January 20, 2003:  "Cicadas And" by Nathan Hoks

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