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Today's poem is "The Demarcations Song"

from Conduit

Albert Goldbarth has been publishing notable books of poetry for over a half-century. Recent collections have appeared from the University of Pittsburgh Press, Lynx House Press, and Graywolf Press, and "The Demarcations Song" will be included in an as-yet-untitled collection forthcoming from BOA Editions in 2027. He and his wife Skyler live in Wichita, Kansas, where--as old fogeys go--they're an arts couple powerhouse.

Other poems by Albert Goldbarth in Verse Daily:
November 14, 2021:   "Lincoln" "Arnie's father, 87, called at 6 a.m. "in pain..."
February 2, 2018:   "The Song of the Practical" "Increasingly, those water lilies of Claude Monet's..."
November 25, 2017:   "Wrist Beep" "Once there weren't even cell phones..."
January 6, 2016:   "Flowers" "Ah, the soul . . . that taxi driver...."
February 17, 2015:   "Secondary" "En route to the Earth—that's..."
September 29, 2008:   "An Explanation" "I wanted to say..."
September 5, 2005:   "Off in the darkness hourses moved restlessly" b"We believed they were horses; and so..."
January 10, 2005:  "How Else Today" "That justly famous scene where all the monster..."

Other poems on the web by Albert Goldbarth:
"Tough Day: Closure"
"Human Beauty"
"A Standard Unit of Measurement"
"Some Archeology"
"Shawl"
112 poems
Seven poems
Two poems

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