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Today's poem is "Wetipquin Scarecrow"

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Adam Tavel is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Green Regalia (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2022). His recent poems appear in North American Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ninth Letter, The Massachusetts Review, Copper Nickel, and Western Humanities Review, among others.

Other poems by Adam Tavel in Verse Daily:
October 27, 2021:   "Practice Room" "Inside this padded door the only sounds..."
September 6, 2021:   "Now We Come to Ticks and Tocks" "Totally giddy and grinning as I recall the fox we happened upon..."
May 19, 2021:   "Soul Reckoning" "I'm skimming through a book called Spook..."
April 24, 2020:   "Word Problem" by "One hundred eighty thousand bison skulls..."
January 31, 2020:   "Autumn Scene in Perry County" "Mennonite girls at sunset float..."
January 31, 2019:   "Still Life with Burn Barrel" "Slow rain cascades inside the hollow eyes..."
October 3, 2018:   "Halloween Vespers with Homemade Vader" "Bless the amber porch light that coronets..."
August 19, 2017:   "Against Elegy" "Mother told me when the snoozing drunk..."

Books by Adam Tavel:

Other poems on the web by Adam Tavel:
Two poems
"Triplets at a Ouija Board, 1951"
"A Grecian Child's Commode"
"Anthropocene"
Two poems
"My Grandfather's Light"
"An Engraving of a Woman Entering an Abortion Clinic"
"A Nursing Program's Simulation Lab on the Morning after Graduation"
"Orphan Lights"
"Faking It"
"Consecration"
"The Crisfield Winter Consumptives of 1908"
"An Abandoned Fort in the Woods"
Four poems
"Cain"
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Room to Roome"
"The Rocket"
"Camp Loss"
"Letter to Schnell Written on Glovebox Napkins"
"Our Lady of Crabapple Hill"
"Sister Roberta's Lecture Notes on the Shroud of Turin"
"Letter to my Wife Written on the Walls of a Blanket Fort"
Two poems

Adam Tavel's Website.

Adam Tavel on Twitter.

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Other poems from Redactions in Verse Daily:
August 21, 2022:   "Wetipquin Scarecrow" by Adam Tavel
August 4, 2021:   "Portal" by Erica Goss
August 3, 2021:   "Upon Discovering She is Irreversible" by Ronda Piszk Broatch
January 31, 2021:   "An Effigy Burning, Abandoned" by George Looney
January 29, 2021:   "Poem For Bill's Birthday" by Joyce Carol Oates
June 4, 2019:   "They're Launching a Poem-less Library to the Moon" Liz Chang
March 5, 2011:   "One Way of Looking at Thirteen Blackbirds" by Jeff Tigchelaar
January 25, 2010:   "String Theory" by Ronald Wallace
February 13, 2009:   "Astrologia" by James Grabill
February 11, 2009:   "Sense" by Brian Diamond
February 9, 2009:   "The God of the Normandy Coast" by James Doyle
July 14, 2007:   "The Rule of Geese" by Tricia Asklar
July 16, 2006:   "On Falling and Failing" by J. P. Dancing Bear
July 5, 2006:   "Afternoon Ether" by Dawn Lonsinger
December 29, 2005:   "Gray Gone Missing" by Michael Robins
December 26, 2005:   "Ponderous Borer" by Linda Cooper
December 25, 2005:   "Prayer" by Susan Denning
December 20, 2005:   "Fiber Optics" by John Whalen

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