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Today's poem is "The Cacti"

from 32 Poems

Michael Lavers is the author of After Earth, published by the University of Tampa Press. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, AGNI, Southwest Review, Best New Poets 2015, TriQuarterly, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. He has been awarded the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor's International Poetry Prize, the Moth Poetry Prize, and the Bridport Poetry Prize. Together with his wife, the writer and artist Claire Åkebrand, and their two children, he lives in Provo, Utah, and teaches at Brigham Young University.

Books by Michael Lavers:

Other poems on the web by Michael Lavers:
Three poems
"Bow City"
"Last Night’s Snow"
"Field Work"
"The Friends I’ll Never Have"
"Coda"
"Alberta Georgics"
Two poems
Two poems
"Light Years"
Two poems
Two poems
"Three Buttered Muffins"

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Other poems from 32 Poems in Verse Daily:
October 13, 2022:   "For E, Who Asks Me How I Loved So Many Before Her" by Rochelle Hurt
October 12, 2022:   "Hunger" by Ruth Awad
October 10, 2022:   "Clit Ode" by January G. O'Neil
March 5, 2022:   "Probably It Will Be Summer Again" by Catherine Pierce
April 29, 2021:   "The Hounds" by Colby Cotton
April 28, 2021:   "Van Gogh" by David Kirby
April 27, 2021:   "In the Head Full of Dead Letters" by Suphil Lee Park
August 31, 2020:   "Later" by Susan Hutton
August 12, 2020:   "Deferred Action" by Lesley Wheeler
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 Sandra Meek
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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