Today's poem is
"The Man Who Never Once Looked Up and Saw a Star his Whole Life"
from Kestrel
Michael Mark
is the author of Visiting Her in Queens is More Enlightening than a Month in a Monastery in Tibet which won the 2022 Rattle Chapbook Prize. His recent poems appear in Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Sixth Finch, The Southern Review, The Sun, 32 Poems.
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Other poems by Kestrel in Verse Daily:
February 28, 2024: "Ancestry" by Sarah Elkins
February 27, 2024: "The Man Who Never Once Looked Up and Saw a Star his Whole Life" by Martha Silano
July 25, 2023: "It Is Advantageous to Place on the Table a [Hollow Figurine] of Apollo, with Bibliomancy" by Lesley Wheeler
July 20, 2023: "Edward Hopper's 'Seven A.M.', 1948" by Michael Boccardo
July 18, 2023: "Visitation" by Eric Pankey
December 1, 2022: "The Languorous Flipside of Fire" by John Minczeski
May 20, 2022: "Resentment" by Ace Boggess
May 14, 2022: "Resentment" by Al Maginnes
May 13, 2022: "Cultivar from the West" by Angie Macri
November 28, 2021: "Another Story of Ash" by Rick Campbell
November 27, 2021: "Ars Poetica II" by Dean Rader
November 26, 2021: "Wine with Everything Was What I Said" by Laura Sobbott Ross
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