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Today's poem is "Demigod"

from The Greensboro Review

C. Dale Young is the author of five collections of poetry and a novel The Affliction (1998). In 2025, Four Way Books will publish Building the Perfect Animal: New and Selected Poems. He practices medicine full-time and teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

Other poems by C. Dale Young in Verse Daily:
July 27, 2022:   "Portrait in Burnt Orange and Bitter Almonds" by "Perhaps to escape violence or war, to escape..."
May 7, 2007:   "Infidelity" " The sun hovering a mile above the edge..."
April 12, 2004:  "The Tree Frog" "It is not the chambers of the heart that hold him..."

Other poems on the web by C. Dale Young:
Twenty poems
Two poems
Nine poems
Two poems
Eigth poems
"The Plunder House"
"Cancer"
Two poems

C. Dale Young's Website.

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