Verse Daily® Archives
April 6, 2025: "On Sundays, I Do Laundry" by Susan L. Leary "& there she is—a girl, hidden..."
April 5, 2025: "Born in the Rain" by Frances Klein "I was born in the rain, pearls of perspiration..."
April 4, 2025: "Winter Harvest" by Doug Ramspeck "These are mad dreams. They have..."
April 3, 2025: "Come In, Houston, or Everything I Know I Learned from the Guitar Solo in Tori Amos' "Doughnut Song" (Live in Frankfurt, Germany" by MJ Gomez "Lately, I've been into transformation..."
April 2, 2025: "Ayat" by MJ Gomez "It is obvious when it shouldn't be..."
April 1, 2025: "Variation on a Theme" by Therí Alyce Pickens "We tired, two syllables, no are. We..."
March 31, 2025: "Hour of Lead" by Elizabeth Jacobson "When you are by the sea on an island made mostly of cement..."
March 30, 2025: "Where There is Forgiveness" by David B. Prather "I suppose because it's Sunday..."
March 29, 2025: "The Birth of Venus" by Jonathan Fink "There are no spokes beneath the sulfuric clouds of Venus..."
March 28, 2025: "Poem in Which I Become My Own Fairytale" by Tina Schumann "The quiet grew like a green stem..."
March 27, 2025: "Mars Changing Her Name" by Kenneth Pobo "I got named after a war god...."
March 26, 2025: "About Suffering" by Nin Andrews "I heard on the radio this morning that patients who are prayed for suffer less..."
March 25, 2025: "007" by Peter Kline "Have you ever mistaken your lover for a gun?..."
March 24, 2025: "Pentimento" by Jenny Molberg "Come into compulsion, you tell me. Listen..."
March 23, 2025: "Next Door" by Amy Beeder "Living on window-stunned doves is permitted, but..."
March 22, 2025: "My Mother's Body" by Gessica Sakamoto Martini "Every day, my mother says her body is like a stranger's house...."
March 21, 2025: "Mount Madonna's Last White Deer" by Jeanne Wagner "You with your coat of no colors..."
March 20, 2025: "Odd True Fact" by Keith Ekiss "Hello, world. Hello, animal...."
March 19, 2025: "Odd True Fact" by Jennifer Martelli "It only makes sense that one sister..."
March 18, 2025: "Salem Easter" by Stephen Haven "The inkwell of that royal purple..."
March 17, 2025: "Shelter of Lies" by Jen Karetnick "This is the yellow scrapbook that you began the year I was born..."
March 16, 2025: "Grain" by Angie Macri "Out of the claw, the girl prefers talon..."
March 15, 2025: "Devoured" by Wendy Wisner "This morning, a black crow on a fence..."
March 14, 2025: "The Golden Country" by Rebecca Foust "In the North Country everything familiar..."
March 13, 2025: "Shipworm (Teredo navalis)" by Joan Wickersham "Your life is tunnels. You burrow in..."
March 12, 2025: "Zombies" by Holly Karapetkova "My son is afraid of zombies...."
March 11, 2025: "Tarantata" by Susan Tekulve "The dark hours..."
March 10, 2025: "I Saw a Girl" by Mary Lou Buschi "At a red light...."
March 9, 2025: "History, The Homemaker" by Scot Siegel "History is independently wealthy...."
March 8, 2025: "Dressing Room" by Carla Schick "I pull tee-shirts..."
March 7, 2025: "Feral Dogs Of Chernobyl" by David Cazden "Radiation lurks invisibly..."
March 6, 2025: "Define an area as "safe" and use it as an anchor" by Leslie Ullman "There's a space inside waiting..."
March 5, 2025: "A Half-Century of American Experience" by Joseph Geskey "Weddings, funerals, and the rare promotion...."
March 4, 2025: "Applied Literature" by Andrea Potos "Too late for a hotel, an acquaintance offers us..."
March 3, 2025: "Fires Burn Our Tomorrows" by Julene Tripp Weaver "I'm grateful for that final box..."
March 2, 2025: "Wanting Kids" by Bunkong Tuon "My wife and I rented a lake house at Cayuga Lake...."
March 1, 2025: "After the Gulls" by Jo Bear "It began at the shore, foam..."
February 28, 2025: "The Starlings Were You" by Robert Okaji "Morning was a jaundiced memory..."
February 27, 2025: "Ode to America" by Cat Wei "To sliced bread..."
February 26, 2025: "Civilian" by Jehanne Dubrow "I bring the war into my bed each night..."
February 24, 2025: "My Father Drives to Muskegon with a Bouquet of Flowers" by Caitlin Cowan "only to be refused by his only child...."
February 23, 2025: "Holding on in Irpin" by Michael Magee "As I watch those people..."
February 22, 2025: "After We Buried the Dog in the Dark" by Jin Cordaro "He came back. I saw him..."
February 21, 2025: "When I Was Straight" by Kelli Russell Agodon "I thought everyone was easy..."
February 20, 2025: "match my freak" by Fran Lock "says the song...."
February 19, 2025: "Self, Centered" by Sofia Fall "Exhibit 3 was an enormous yellow..."
February 18, 2025: "When I Was Straight" by Emma Bolden "In Catholic School we kneeled to learn..."
February 17, 2025: "Feral" by Jessica Cuello "Why did I love her? Because I became her, followed her..."
February 16, 2025: "When I Was Straight" by Diamond Forde "The van mumbled in rush hour..."
February 15, 2025: "When I Was Straight" by Charles Jensen "I was transparent..."
February 13, 2025: "Planned Community" by Kathy Fagan "Each day the houses resemble houses more and more..."
February 12, 2025: "Feeding The Wild Rabbit" by Angela Patten "What should I feed the wild rabbit..."
February 11, 2025: "Conjuration" by Laura Foley "Wearing deep-cleated snow shoes..."
February 10, 2025: "How to Survive in Earthquake Country" by Rachelle Sierra "Quit it with the fear thing. Scientists can't say..."
February 9, 2025: "My Father Goes Swimming in the Afterlife" by John Glowney "This is how I see him now..."
February 8, 2025: "Bully Pulpit" by Michael Garrigan "Reverend Elder preached at the pulpit..."
February 7, 2025: "The Folk Songs of North America" by Ann Hudson "Awake in bed I listened to my father..."
February 6, 2025: "Break Maiden" by Kathleen Radigan "Just when I think I am dead..."
February 5, 2025: "Walking on Water" by Tricia Knoll "Wait for ice to paralyze..."
February 4, 2025: "Rilke's Telephone" by Claire Millikin "What I'm trying to learn..."
February 3, 2025: "Loneliness Was Part Of It" by Jaye Kranz "though the part takes up most of the space...."
February 2, 2025: "In Praise of Late Wonder" by Lee Herrick "I've wondered what my Korean mother's voice..."
February 1, 2025: "Halloween Parade, Children's Hospital Boston" by Scott Frey "Waving in our doorway, a tiny Tom Brady..."
January 31, 2025: "Memorial" by Michelle Bitting "Now they're figuring out my brother's service...."
January 30, 2025: "Nothing Like the Sun . . ." by Maryann Corbett "Wear hats. Wear long sleeves. Never let the sun..."
January 29, 2025: "Overture to Boy about to Walk in on Parents" by John Coleman Bennett "So far, it's been relatively quiet..."
January 28, 2025: "As the snow to the sun" by S.A. Leger "On a mound of peat sits a Caspian Tern..."
January 27, 2025: "Refuge" by D. Nurkse "That summer, the treaty was not renewed...."
January 26, 2025: "conditions under which everything might be different" by Kristin Lueke "if i were a key. if men were not quiet, exactly..."
January 25, 2025: "Small Potatoes" by Erin Wilson "You know how you worried over every aspect of every thing..."
January 24, 2025: "What is it Like to be a Bat?" by Cheryl Moskowitz "Seeing is not imaging..."
January 23, 2025: "Here is where we kill and give birth" by Rewa Zeinati "Your hands are ordinary...."
January 22, 2025: "Every time a fly went by" by Seán Carlson "How regular it is now to return..."
January 21, 2025: "Commandments with a Line from Jack Gilbert" by Suzanne Edison "Tikkun Olam, repair the world..."
January 19, 2025: "Last Words Written on a Northwest Passage" by Nina C. Peláez "In the amphitheater of ice, light sings..."
January 18, 2025: "Immigrant React" by Aishvarya Arora "A black mirror lake flakes gold in the light...."
January 17, 2025: "Heartbeat Sound Machine" by Jennifer K. Sweeney "What white quiet is this..."
January 16, 2025: "The Bullets Are Thinking About My Body Again" by Michael Okafor "The bullets are thinking about my body again..."
January 15, 2025: "Premonition" by Lindsay M. D'Andrea "No one can say I didn't warn them. We're finally afraid..."
January 14, 2025: "The Physics of It" by Brian Satrom "A room that smells of jasmine..."
January 13, 2025: "Something about your Drinking" by Sheila E. Murphy "buckets of water..."
January 12, 2025: "Yield" by Lisa M. Hase-Jackson "Stonehenge is maintained with a push mower..."
January 11, 2025: "Portrait of God as Aggregate of Manatees" by Patricia Caspers "Barnacle-scarred in brackish shallows..."
January 10, 2025: "Everywhere A River" by Emily Ransdell "I do remember darkness, how it snaked..."
January 9, 2025: "Self-Portrait Lined by Anna Akhmatova" by Simone Muench & Jackie K. White "The secret of secrets is inside me again..."
January 8, 2025: "Dream of the End of The World" by Wendy Wisner "The children were separated from their parents..."
January 7, 2025: "Proselytus" by Joshua McKinney "The heron has no need of heaven..."
January 6, 2025: "Make No Mistake" by Kate Fox "You are the company misery loves...."
January 5, 2025: "Elegy with the Lark Ascending" by Adam Chiles "If there is a theme here, let it be this..."
January 4, 2025: "Ghost Church" by William Huhn "In sparse woods turns..."
January 3, 2025: "How It Goes" by Catherine Abbey Hodges "The river rose, rose some more..."
January 2, 2025: "House Made of Guns" by William Fargason "In the house made of guns in the city..."
January 1, 2025: "gutter maps" by Melissa Eleftherion "ocean ellipsis mouth..."
December 31, 2024: "Memento Mori" by Catherine Jagoe "On the way back from a family funeral..."
December 30, 2024: "Cerberus" by Maggie Dietz "One mouth eats the hand that feeds it...."
December 29, 2024: "Day 68" by janan alexandra "I declare it a day of pleasure...."
December 27, 2024: "Balancing Act" by Heidi Seaborn "When my brother says we are wired the same, I envision a tightrope or slackline..."
December 26, 2024: "Ammunition" by Amanda Newell "After Fang snapped photos of the boys & sent them to you..."
December 25, 2024: "Buffalo Calf Woman" by C.L. Downing "I dwell amongst the lush weathered trees..."
December 24, 2024: "difficult lovable people" by Dara Barrois/Dixon "Faithful, up to a point..."
December 23, 2024: "that has been entrusted to us" by Erika Meitner "nests built by 176 different bird species were found to contain..."
December 22, 2024: "Desire & quiet moon" by Dorothy Lune "The crush is fleshless & so it peeled..."
December 21, 2024: "Deflowering" by Amari Amai "Is the pressure okay?..."
December 20, 2024: "Petrarchan Sonnet on the Electrified Sea" by Shane McCrae "Picture a boat whatever boat a yacht..."
December 19, 2024: "Woman Posting in Parenting Forum" by Luisa Muradyan "Friends, I have come to the end of my rope...."
December 18, 2024: "After," by Tina Barry "rivers swirled black, trees pulled from their roots..."
December 17, 2024: "Palanquin" by Matthew Zapruder "When I was a child I used to read..."
December 16, 2024: "For So Long, I Was Foolishly Proud of The Scar on My Thumb" by Amorak Huey "I wanted to be a man..."
December 15, 2024: "anything that is fourteen lines" by Sydney Mayes "is about you :: the bald spot on a widowed..."
December 14, 2024: "Everywhere We Once Knew Wildness" by Sarah Carey "Past mounds of fuchsia azaleas..."
December 13, 2024: "Taking Off Walt Whitman's Clothes" by Paul Hostovsky "Myself, / I'm not into men but..."
December 12, 2024: "Snowplow" by Jeffrey Bean "Kind yellow bull pacing..."
December 11, 2024: "The Demarcations Song" by Albert Goldbarth "The minute before she bites down on the engagement ring..."
December 10, 2024: "Letters in Winter" by Maya C. Popa "There is not one leaf left on that tree..."
December 9, 2024: "Breaking Point (Woman. Life. Freedom.)" by Jane Muschenetz "for your own good they will tell you..."
December 8, 2024: "Naked vs. Nude" by Judy Kronenfeld "Naked under my sheets and paper gown, I arrive..."
December 7, 2024: "Howe Farm Dog Park, December" by Lana Hechtman Ayers "At the click of leash release..."
December 6, 2024: "Christmas (1988)" by Sara Henning "Before I knew the word yearning, I knew sadness..."
December 5, 2024: "Sonnet for Lolly" by Jacob Butlett "Starlight scrawls her name in fog above the creek..."
December 4, 2024: "Sirius" by Carol Alexander "Dogs adapt. Dry-eyed like smaller fountains. From the fourteenth floor..."
December 3, 2024: "Made in América" by Dimitri Reyes "I thought they would be of real..."
December 2, 2024: "Growing Up Female Around American Shooters" by Carmen Calatayud "To be female is to be raw 24/7...."
December 1, 2024: "Martyrs" by Claudine Toutoungi "Sometimes we give them a hard time, the martyrs...."
November 30, 2024: "Cornucopia" by Jessica Manack "The nuns taught us that there were three kinds of kisses..."
November 29, 2024: "During the War" by George Franklin "A truck filled with soldiers parked in front of the church...."
November 28, 2024: "The Sign Said" by Tanya Larkin "IF YOU CAN PREPARE FOR A BIRTHDAY PARTY..."
November 27, 2024: "Rolling in the Dead" by John Smith "My daughter and I took River Road for the tiger lilies..."
November 26, 2024: "Influencers" by Sara Michas-Martin "Lunch is short and covered with scratches..."
November 25, 2024: "Working" by Richard Levine "The ancient people of Newfoundland walked..."
November 24, 2024: "Burial" by Rashna Wadia "From a window I watch..."
November 23, 2024: "Cochlear" by Mary Elder Jacobsen "Regard / the wanting ear..."
November 22, 2024: "Poem in Which I Break My Promises" by Denise Duhamel "I won't be going to the party after all. And there's no way..."
November 21, 2024: "Goat Dream" by Todd Davis "While I sleep, wind shears the plateau, lifts trees by the crown..."
November 20, 2024: "Communiqué, or Trying to Find the Right Words to Describe an Inflorescence in Fluorescence" by Karla Myn Khine "Reports have come in of a meadowlark in the throes of matricide in Massachusetts...."
November 19, 2024: "The Thread" by Julian Orde "You'd think she did not love enough..."
November 18, 2024: "A Brief History of Maine Industry" by Abbie Kiefer "There's a mannequin sewing shoes and we laugh at his wig...."
November 17, 2024: "Quarantined—Day 15: Shelter in Place" by CJ Giroux "The first real spring..."
November 16, 2024: "Retreat" by Timothy Geiger "After the first light..."
November 15, 2024: "The Ancestors Take the Reins of My Throat" by Hadara Bar-Nadav "There is always a we..."
November 14, 2024: "Dictionary of Owl" by Mary Meriam "Who cares about the redbud tree, its flowers..."
November 13, 2024: "The Voices of Doctors" by Dan O'Brien "ring like seraphim. If minorly parental. The first replied blandly like an..."
November 12, 2024: "I Am Old and It's November" by Jeff Burt "I burn the leftover triangles of fir..."
November 11, 2024: "After I was raped the second time, I lost forty pounds" by Katie Berta "and everyone began congratulating me. Men, previously ambivalent..."
November 10, 2024: "When We Invented Gunpowder, We Were Trying to Invent the Elixir of Life" by Dorsey Craft "How quickly we adapt, water carving..."
November 9, 2024: "Snow, Almost, Nearly" by Susan L. Leary "There's a certain surrender..."
November 8, 2024: "Cronos devoured his children" by Annie Stenzel "If only there were merely space between us..."
November 7, 2024: "What Took to the Air" by Dan Albergotti "When my mother died, the purple martins..."
November 6, 2024: "Midwestern Reunion" by Em Townsend "In the new year, Ohio remains..."
November 5, 2024: "Still Life with Frida Kahlo" by Laura Isabela Amsel "In the bowl, cobalt-blue, you..."
November 4, 2024: "Gaslight" by Jill McCabe Johnson "We all know the silencing of women...."
November 3, 2024: "Diane Arbus: Two Ladies at the Automat" by Susan Kelly-DeWitt "They pose with the sugar..."
November 2, 2024: "Not the Wolf but the Dog" by Jacqueline Berger "Not the zebra but the horse..."
November 1, 2024: "new emergencies" by Paige Webb "and where it begins it begins mid-fall against the fall..."
October 31, 2024: "Reversing the Spell" by Ruth Thompson "Always the fish..."
October 30, 2024: "Raven" by Amy Roa "I had a series of violent coughing fits...."
October 29, 2024: "Ultimatum" by Weijia Pan "If I forget one character a day..."
October 28, 2024: "It's Important I Remember That Being Alone and Being Lonely Aren't the Same Thing" by Cortney Lamar Charleston "a distinction I know well from unwellness...."
October 27, 2024: "When Love was in Fashion" by Francine Witte "And we just had to show up..."
October 26, 2024: "One of Us" by Seth Hagen "One of us is drunk, and one of us is lying..."
October 25, 2024: "Little League, America" by Jose Hernandez Diaz "Growing up, I always wanted to play Little League baseball..."
October 24, 2024: from American Outrage by H. L. Hix "Rayshard Brooks was 27, and had three daughters and a stepson...."
October 23, 2024: "Snake Duplex i" by Cynthia Bargar "Not in a Tinder-ish way, but let's meet up...."
October 22, 2024: "Capacity Crowd" by Natalie Shapero "I'm sick of waiting for this city to work..."
October 21, 2024: "Personal Effects" by Derek Graf "Trees chandeliered with snow. An eruption of rain...."
October 20, 2024: "Émigré" by Zachary Daniel "I am pulling the sled deeper..."
October 19, 2024: "Variations on Justice's Variations on a Text by Vallejo (with a Little Stephen Crane)" by Stephen Kampa "I will die in a fast food restaurant, surrounded..."
October 18, 2024: "The Deep End" by Jim Daniels "My father found my mother, ninety, crawling..."
October 17, 2024: "Father" by Stella Hayes "The photograph held for too long in an acid-free frame fell..."
October 16, 2024: "Even in Disguise" by Jennifer Whalen "Talk leans small over the balcony rails..."
October 15, 2024: "Still Life with Front Porch and Yellow Sky" by Marg Walker "We resemble the day, limp..."
October 14, 2024: "Superstition" by Amanda Dettmann "Every time I see a pear I think of the man..."
October 13, 2024: "Reverse Abuse" by Lauren Crawford "Pools of water drag soot into a swirl..."
October 12, 2024: "Government Cheese" by Michael Meyerhofer "We called it Reagan Cheese then..."
October 11, 2024: "Eschatology" by Kim Addonizio "No way this ends with everyone rising from the family plot..."
October 10, 2024: "Severance" by Conan Tan "I think I have a cordyceps heart...."
October 9, 2024: "Hysterical" by Cindy King "A happy summer's day..."
October 8, 2024: "Outlines" by Jenny Sadre-Orafai "We wear chains of bear bells around our waists and wade into foxfire...."
October 7, 2024: "The Ghost Ship" by Derek Mong "The sea surrounding them they barely knew..."
October 6, 2024: "You Get Used to It" by Merrill Oliver Douglas "The way you get used to the woman in uniform..."
October 5, 2024: "Animate Objects" by Katharine Whitcomb "Whose face changed...."
October 4, 2024: "Handful of Stallions at Twilight" by Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas "Thoughts on what's left behind..."
October 3, 2024: "The Last Love Letter of Marie Curie" by Ash Bowen "Please put me with your hands. My palms are empty...."
October 2, 2024: "Postscript" by Octavio Quintanilla "Because you have been separated from your parents, you doodle nonsense..."
October 1, 2024: "Monster Buffet" by Christy Ku "I look like someone who has a lot of monsters...."
September 30, 2024: "Two Waters, One Money" by Megan Blankenship "The Greeks were almost right about atoms but couldn't have known..."
September 29, 2024: "Weary of the world, you play Starfield" by Gus Peterson "and again grow weary of the world...."
September 28, 2024: "Aubade for Longing" by Sheila Black "There are still songs to be sung on the other..."
September 27, 2024: "Tornado Weather" by Emma Bolden "The last high sweat of an August..."
September 26, 2024: "Haunting the House" by Samantha Pious "I lock the door. I am the door...."
September 25, 2024: "Hush" by Alison Prine "Walking home that day I pressed..."
September 24, 2024: "Rowing, and Then Light" by Molly Spencer "What's given me by the river, I'll leave to the river...."
September 23, 2024: "World of Each Other's World" by Elizabeth Metzger "Grief is like sleep. I dream in it...."
September 22, 2024: "Stealing Ariel" by Sara Henning "What had I become the night I dreamed..."
September 21, 2024: "Kids Cut Right Through the Nonsense" by Rob Carney "when the governor comes on the news, for instance..."
September 20, 2024: "The Nature of Nurture" by Jen Karetnick "At dusk, the screech owls warn us with a bounce..."
September 19, 2024: "Ghazal of Skin" by Shikha Malaviya "They tell us to be comfortable in our own skin..."
September 18, 2024: "Blasphemous Apostle" by Vivek Sharma "apostle, lovers seek you on the stage tonight...."
September 17, 2024: "Good Americans" by Karen Llagas "The mayor says we're all in this together. And Asian Americans..."
September 16, 2024: "Wanderlust Ghazal" by Dipika Mukherjee "My language is a Bedouin thief, delighting in foreign sands..."
September 15, 2024: "Mis Gacelas" by Lupita Eyde-Tucker "In New Jersey, Mamita watched All My Children. Stones..."
September 13, 2024: "1992" by Piero Toto "that weakness coming home..."
September 12, 2024: "Mercy" by Didi Jackson "I prefer the charred smell of old fire rings..."
September 11, 2024: "Click Bait" by Jason Schneiderman "Today's distraction: an article on how to avoid distraction...."
September 10, 2024: "The Nine Mayan Gods of the Underworld Explain Delusions to John Roberts" by Christian Teresi "We know the place you were once innocent—without..."
September 9, 2024: "The Naming of Things" by Kelli Russell Agodon "There is a woman we call Flock of Seagulls..."
September 8, 2024: "7 May 2021" by Mary Margaret Alvarado "Nationalism was the old religion and moralism is..."
September 7, 2024: "First Bomb Away" by Samodh Porawagamage "A bomb escaped..."
September 6, 2024: "Gertrude Stein Rides the Torn Down El" by Tom Postell "Then colors rose through the leaves in light..."
September 5, 2024: "Giant Stag Beetles" by Mildred Kiconco Barya "Friends of dead wood and seclusion..."
September 4, 2024: "The Thing" by Zachary Medlin "Let's call it Body Horror, this thing in my blood..."
September 3, 2024: "Graceland" by Kellam Ayres "When you tour Graceland with a plastic bag full of pills..."
September 2, 2024: "I've Been Feeling a Lot Like an Edward Hopper Painting Lately" by Joshua Garcia "as if it's always that time of day when everything stills..."
September 1, 2024: "It's Morning Again in America" by Christopher Blackman "There is a lot of ruin in a nation and I am..."
August 31, 2024: "Instead of god" by Thomas A. Thomas "say heron, say kingfisher..."
August 30, 2024: "A World Inside This World" by Tom C. Hunley "I love watching Bigfoot..."
August 29, 2024: "Inflorescences" by Donna Prinzmetal "Once in a snowdrift of sleep..."
August 28, 2024: "The Unmown Field" by Emily Tuszynska "Ten years gone and even I..."
August 27, 2024: "Museum" by Hannah Lee Nahar "They wouldn't let me into the world..."
August 26, 2024: "Unreliable History" by Alyse Knorr "be gentle I said & you were..."
August 25, 2024: "Ghost Picture (Aubade with Pink Muckets)" by William Woolfitt "The sun clambers over the husk..."
August 24, 2024: "Epithalamium for Mo and Susanna" by Todd Osborne "Some pray for rain and wait, expecting..."
August 23, 2024: "glad" by Nicole Callihan "but everything wasn't always terrible i'd save..."
August 22, 2024: "Cloak of Kindness" by Leslie Williams "You will be taught matters which are for you alone...."
August 21, 2024: "Dark Materials" by Deborah Gorlin "In the morgue of dark materials and outsourced merchandise..."
August 20, 2024: "Aubade With the Smell of Roasting Coffee On the Air In My Backyard" by Joel Ferdon "I drink from stone & revel in the magic of days..."
August 19, 2024: "Post-Mortem" by Bonnie Proudfoot "Spring / and I have begun killing...."
August 18, 2024: "Polite Society" by Al Maginnes "A banged knuckle, a line of blood..."
August 17, 2024: "Blazon" by Jack Kristiansen "how little the whorls..."
August 16, 2024: "Fire Bug" by Jane Rosenberg LaForge "My mother did not talk to fire..."
August 15, 2024: "Wonder Bread" by Mark Cox "Lately, I meet mornings unsure of what to do with myself...."
August 14, 2024: "She Said to Me" by Jenny Factor "The difference between the lived life and the slept life..."
August 13, 2024: "Bison Gathered on a Bed Resist Extinction" by Ned Balbo "The sheets milk-white and crystalline..."
August 12, 2024: "Captured" by Wendy Videlock "Who in this room hasn't heard..."
August 11, 2024: "Black Locust" by Steven Withrow "In spring your clustered flowers are as white..."
August 10, 2024: "Open Carry" by Richard Michelson "After Pittsburgh, what would you have me do, God asks?..."
August 9, 2024: "Blue Nude" by Tamara Madison "We did not spend Christmas..."
August 8, 2024: "Aubade" by AE Hines "I'd like to make the argument love..."
August 7, 2024: "Sleeping Dogs" by Matthew Buckley Smith "When we hear the news your neighbor shot herself..."
August 6, 2024: "If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now" by Rachel Dillon "An egret stands thin by the bridge...."
August 5, 2024: "He dreamed he cared, and woke" by Diane Seuss "to the feeling of having cared, an unfamiliar..."
August 4, 2024: "Postdiluvian" by Emma Bolden "A flinch of sky shattered into an iridescence...."
August 3, 2024: "Deep" by Tina Barr "Outside, the call is a caw, deep in a throat, a gurgle..."
August 2, 2024: "Empty Stadiums" by Nathan Xavier Osorio "Remember the baseball field..."
August 1, 2024: "Pet Crow" by Jessica Tanck "When I find the crow in the bath..."
July 31, 2024: "Wherefrom Comes This Country Goes" by Travis Mossotti "Comes our patron city of burnt-clay façades..."
July 30, 2024: "Miracle Town" by J.L. Conrad "We choose, for instance, to take off our skins...."
July 29, 2024: "Echoes from the Odyssey" by Oksana Maksymchuk "When the air raid's over..."
July 27, 2024: "Seen" by Rasma Haidri "Detroit, Michigan, 1956..."
July 26, 2024: "Public Speaking" by Timothy Donnelly "I'm asked to disprove, while the others look on, that life begins..."
July 25, 2024: "Dear America" by Suzanne Frischkorn "It's time to teach my daughter how to shoot an arrow..."
July 24, 2024: "How to Love Your Enemies" by Eric Paul Shaffer "Walk slowly along the forty miles of tanks..."
July 23, 2024: "Dog" by Regina O'Melveny "Yesterday I planted a tree on my old dog's grave...."
July 22, 2024: "Circling" by Andrea Cohen "Someone was saying what..."
July 21, 2024: "The Lost Brother" by Bethany Reid "Now that our mother has forgotten your name..."