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Today's poem is "Deferred Action"

from 32 Poems

Lesley Wheeler's new books are The State She's In, her fifth poetry collection, and Unbecoming, her first novel. Her poems and essays appear in such journals as The Common, Poetry, Ecotone, and Massachusetts Review, and she is Poetry Editor of Shenandoah. She lives in Lexington, Virginia.

Other poems by Lesley Wheeler in Verse Daily:
June 8, 2020:   "Unsonnet" "When color comes back to the world..."
July 16, 2019:   "Inside Out" "Shouldn't talk with a mouthful of half-chewed flags..."
March 13, 2016:   "Semicolons" "Samaras, sticky tender things, helicopter..."
September 3, 2009:   "Past Bedtime" "Sometimes I feel like a stream, she said...."
August 16, 2009:   "Selfish" "When you are always right, it is hard to diet..."
June 30, 2009:   "Inland Song" "In some kind houses the doors..."
November 14, 2007:   "Lazy Eye" " The stranger unplugs her bogus teeth..."

Books by Lesley Wheeler:

Other poems on the web by Lesley Wheeler:
Two poems
"My Dead Father Remembers My Birthday"
Two poems
Three poems
"Letter to America"
"Feeling Good"
"3rd Violation"
"Oral Culture"
"Bequest"
"Dressing Down, 1962"
Three poems
"Rimwalkers"
Three poems
Two poems
"Zombie Thanksgiving"

Lesley Wheeler's Website.

Lesley Wheeler According to Wikipedia.

Lesley Wheeler on Twitter.

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Editor: George David Clark

Other poems from 32 Poems in Verse Daily:
August 11, 2020:   "In a Low Voice, Slowly" by Carl Phillips
February 7, 2020:   "The Itch" by Gary McDowell
February 6, 2020:   "Automaton Angels" by Rebecca Morgan Frank
February 5, 2020:   "Soldier Heart" by Beth Gylys
February 4, 2020:   "Entreaty" by Catherine Pierce
February 3, 2020:   "The Elect" by Gary McDowell
March 28, 2017:   "Love Poem" by Maggie Smith
September 26, 2016:   "Vane" by Gary McDowell
September 23, 2016:   "Prisoners' Parable of the Flood" by Susannah Nevison
January 19, 2016:   "Father" by Jessica Piazza
January 18, 2016:   "Summer" by Randall Mann
November 17, 2015:   "Smetana" by Bruce Bond
October 17, 2013:   "Self-Portrait with Quarry" by Elisabeth Murawski
October 16, 2013:   "The Belt" by Noah Kucij
September 12, 2012:   "Passion Flower" by Melissa Apperson
September 11, 2012:   "Wandering Albatross" by Suzanne Zweizig
August 24, 2011:   "Alley" by Jeffery L. Bahr
January 7, 2011:   "Late" by Sidney Wade
January 6, 2011:   "Dictator" by Melissa Stein
February 8, 2010:   "Praise Nothing" by Joshua Robbins
June 25, 2009:   "Bats in the Attic" by Chelsea Rathburn
June 23, 2009:   "Rip Cord" by Jamie Thomas
February 22, 2009:   "Bats in the Attic" by Anthony Walton
February 21, 2009:   "The Pencil" by Billy Collins
April 22, 2007:   "Thin Ice" by Randall Stiffler
November 30, 2005:   "Cod" by David Roderick
May 16, 2005:  "Bird Advice" Jill Alexander Essbaum
May 14, 2005:  "Parting Shot" Brendan O'Connor
May 3, 2005:  "Boat" Carol Frost
February 9, 2005:  "Fabulous Ones" by Jeffrey Thomson
February 8, 2005:  "Ultrasound" by A. E. Stallings
February 7, 2005:  "Year of the Blues" by A. C. Schaffer
June 29, 2004:  "Bonfire" by Julie Funderburk
June 28, 2004:  "Ill-Made Almighty" by Heather McHugh
January 3, 2004:  "Vane Countries" by Geoffrey Brock
December 31, 2003:  "Litany for Treetops" by C. J. Sage
July 15, 2003:  "The Trouble with Being Born" by Christina Davis
July 14, 2003:  "Outer Banks (II)" by Christian Wiman
July 9, 2003:  "Sonnet" by Kimberly Johnson

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