Today's poem is
"Smetana"
from 32 Poems
Bruce Bond
is the author of fifteen books including For the Lost Cathedral (LSU Press), Black Anthem (Tampa Review Prize, University of Tampa Press), and Gold Bee (Crab Orchard Open Competition Award, Southern Illinois Press).
Other poems by Bruce Bond in Verse Daily:
August 28, 2014: "The Abyssal Plain" "Here beneath the last revenant of light..."
br>December 5, 2013: "Shame" "When a boy passes out drunk at a party..."
May 16, 2013: "Words Against the Walls of the City" "Night loves a ladder...."
March 21, 2013: "What the Given Says to the Made" "How odd the ordinary birds that praise..."
March 16, 2012: "Homage to the Left Hand" "Not the south paw of the left..."
September 1, 2011: "Arrows" "Every thrill in us creates unease..."
September 9, 2010: "Empire of Light" "It's the lantern that we look to most..."
April 17, 2009: "Sand" "So many grains, so many little tombs..."
July 24, 2008: "Tuning Fork" "Lynchpin of the singing wheel..."
June 26, 2008: "Scar" "What is it you forget in your vigil..."
May 8, 2008: "Will" "To the locusts that blur the lyres of their shells..."
April 16, 2008: "Elegy for Tim Buckley" "Scat singing for the sleep deprived..."
July 8, 2007: "Confessions of a Music Box" " No larger than a bird coffin..."
August 25, 2006: "Black Iris" " Dear guitar, my Cyclops, my raft..."
August 14, 2006: "Planetarium" " As the mobile of planets wheeled over my crib..."
April 18, 2004: "The Ghost of Weather" "My father takes smaller steps..."
March 30, 2004: "Rehearsals for the New Order" "The courthouse is empty now ablaze..."
October 12, 2002: "The Chimneys" "After the fire the monoliths of brick..."
July 23, 2002: "Mercy" "Dear happiness, forgive me..."
Books by Bruce Bond:
Other poems on the web by Bruce Bond:
"Geppetto in Hell"
"Metaphysics of the Literal Heart"
"Water Burial"
Six poems
"Heaven?s Gate"
"The Dead Zoo"
"The Tadpoles"
"The Tree of Forgetting"
Two poems
"Night Arrival"
"Shutter"
Five poems
"Pill"
"My Mother?s Closet"
"Echolalia"
Two poems
"A Little History of Waves"
"Cruor Dei"
"The Invention of Song"
"Ringtone"
"Choir"
"Elegy"
"Thelonious Sphere Monk"
"Cruor Dei"
"The Invention of Song"
Bruce Bond according to Wikipedia.
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