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Today's poem is "Lumen"

from Poetry Northwest

Bruce Bond is the author of twenty-three books including, most recently, Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of the Near at Hand (U of MI, 2015), Black Anthem (U of Tampa, 2016), Gold Bee (SIU Press, 2016), Sacrum (Four Way, 2017), Blackout Starlight: New and Selected Poems 1997-2015 (LSU, 2017), Rise and Fall of the Lesser Sun Gods (Elixir Press, 2018), Dear Reader (Free Verse Editions, 2018), and Frankenstein's Children (Lost Horse, 2018). Five books are forthcoming including Plurality and the Poetics of Self (Palgrave). Presently he is a Regents Professor of English at the University of North Texas.

Other poems by Bruce Bond in Verse Daily:
December 16, 2019:   "Yah" "You can hear the tremor of the ouds of ancient Morocco..."
May 30, 2017:   "Ventriloquist" "It started with a doll, a woman..."
December 24, 2015:   "Circle" "So when I arrived in hell, the sign said..."
October 27 2015:   "Trinity" "Small things have a different logic to them...."
November 17, 2015:   "Smetana" "When an ear creates its own private pitch..."
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:
Four poems
Two poems
"Poison"
"The Lost Language 20"
Five poems
Five poems
Two poems
"Hunger"
"Mandolin"
Five poems
Four poems
"Elegy for the Last Man to Walk the Moon"
Two poems
Three poems
"In Memory of Jack Myers"
"Third Eye"
"The Birds of New Haven"
"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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August 25, 2019:   "Dear Millennium, Soliloquy of a Rogue Body Politic" by Karen An-Hwei Lee
August 24, 2019:   "Little Song" by Mark Wagenaar
August 23, 2019:   "Come, Pioneer" by Leah Umansky
May 25, 2017:   "Sea Specters" by Suzanne Manizza Roszak
May 24, 2017:   "Blank Shot" by Josh Kalscheur
May 23, 2017:   "Falling but Frozen" by David Hernandez
September 9, 2016:   "Darkening, Brightening" by Carl Phillips
September 8, 2016:   "Our Fathers" by Kathleen Flenniken
July 11, 2016:   "Bewilder" by Katrina Roberts
July 8, 2016:   "Translation" "If this town had a mascot, it would be the man..."
July 4, 2016:   "Scrap Gold" by Zach Savich

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