Five Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Five Poems
May 1, 2019
“My arm is so brown and so beautiful,” is a thought I haveas I’m about to turn off the lamp and go to sleep.I look at it a moment in the soft glow, and see it, briefly,as though it belonged to someone else. A reddishkind of brown, like a toasted almo
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Earthlings
Guernica Magazine
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Earthlings
Apr 9, 2021
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The Island (catullus 64)
The American Poetry Review
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The Island (catullus 64)
Mar 1, 2022
Back then the evergreens tumbled downriverfrom the glaze-white runoff to the boot-stirred puddlesof amber young men who fulfilled our destiny,who clambered into ships, on horses, and in wagonspainting the newfound landscapes ours.Our calling was nobl
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Bard In The Woods
Great Walks
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Bard In The Woods
Nov 30, 2020
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The Epic Of Gilgamesh
The American Poetry Review
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The Epic Of Gilgamesh
Jan 1, 2020
My friends, who can reach heaven? The monster bellows like a river swollen with flood.Many are consumed in his fiery breath. My friends, who can reach heaven? Let us ask the mountain for a sign.Let us cut the spirits from the cedars. My friends, who
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On The Nature Poetics Of The Great Nan Shepherd, Bard Of The Highlands
Literary Hub
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On The Nature Poetics Of The Great Nan Shepherd, Bard Of The Highlands
Oct 7, 2020
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Four Poems by Eavan Boland
Literary Hub
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Four Poems by Eavan Boland
May 1, 2020
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Echo and Narcissus
New Philosopher
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Echo and Narcissus
Mar 7, 2022
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Four Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Four Poems
Jan 1, 2023
And god created the waves and we the graves beneath, bodies madeparticulate by the force of water against water, water against rock, againsttime. I descend into the deep in a kind of prayer, listen to its centuries.Make me pay, will you, make me hurt
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La Globalizzazione In Versi / Globalisation In Verses
Domus
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La Globalizzazione In Versi / Globalisation In Verses
Nov 25, 2022
Non dico: sono uscito, se ho camminato. Se cammino, cammina con me il mio interno. Il mio interno è esterno, il mio esterno è interno – quando cammino. È l'unità del volto, del cuore e dei piedi: un'altra inclinazione senza come o dove? La magia del
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RHYME & REASON
Great Walks
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RHYME & REASON
May 17, 2021
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from 36 WAYS OF WRITING A VIETNAMESE POEM
The American Poetry Review
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from 36 WAYS OF WRITING A VIETNAMESE POEM
Feb 28, 2023
You can’t go far wrong with violence.You’ll go far, my boy.You’ll cross oceans, my boy. Start with the Fall, go back or forth,Through bombs or boats,Across all the killing fields of thought. You can’t make it upBecause it’s all yours—by blood.By righ
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Five Poems
The American Scholar
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Five Poems
Mar 2, 2020
Some people jump, some people dive,Others inch by inch arrive And give themselves up to the chill,Piecemeal, with a grudging will: First toes, then ankles tempt the cold,And backs of knees, that, tender, fold, Then thighs that start to pimple, blo
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New Poetry by Indigenous Women
Literary Hub
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New Poetry by Indigenous Women
Feb 13, 2018
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Sabotage In Stormy Seas
Yachting Monthly
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Sabotage In Stormy Seas
May 23, 2019
THE SHADOW IN THE SANDS First published by Headline in 1998. Currently available via Kindle, £4.64 Gloria was thundering under bare poles into a night no less black than when I had last seen it. The wind felt softer, which is always the way when that
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Darkness Is Asking To Be Loved
Lion's Roar
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Darkness Is Asking To Be Loved
Jul 21, 2020
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“The Beautiful Dream That We Unfold And Extend…”
Guernica Magazine
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“The Beautiful Dream That We Unfold And Extend…”
Oct 11, 2022
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from BLACK PASTORAL
The American Poetry Review
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from BLACK PASTORAL
Nov 1, 2023
somewheres, some lifetimes ago I have run so far, so long.There is nowhere I haven’t beenBut here, in this field, a bodyLength from the ragged brinkThat gives way to forest.I collapsed here, the thin, hard slipOf me whittled at both ends.I want badly
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Death’s Footsteps
The Paris Review
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Death’s Footsteps
Nov 29, 2017
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Two Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Two Poems
Sep 1, 2023
This poem is for everyperson who will neverread it either by choiceor circumstance I writeit in silence wherethe most realparts of our liveslive like a shoe lostin an alley or an emptyboat in a black sea butmore like the fallenleaf on the other sideo
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Mountain Time
The American Poetry Review
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Mountain Time
Jan 1, 2021
In the air you don’t know who you are or where My own self feels it is in wind being born These are currents a man made one eighth of smokeless fire fears but chooses A path south from Anchorage to a Mountain House Ungovern the northern land to pass
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My Own Personal Herakles
Literary Hub
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My Own Personal Herakles
Sep 29, 2017
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Substance Of Shadow
New Philosopher
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Substance Of Shadow
Sep 25, 2023
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Two Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Two Poems
Nov 1, 2018
In a hotel in a small town in Norfolk I am listening to someonethrowing glass bottles into a metal bin: toss-shatter, toss-shatter.There are no other sounds; it’s a quiet afternoonbut the one tossing them has a sense of rhythm and I havea sense that
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In the Dolomites
The Threepenny Review
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In the Dolomites
Sep 1, 2019
1. The afternoon walk, it turns out, may not have been a walk at all.Nor can I locate in the Dolomites the placeWhere we met, though I remember It with a level of detailUsually I reserve for things of consequence.Snow layered in the crevices, white
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Death
The Art of Healing
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Death
Mar 2, 2023
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Lonely As A Cloud
Womankind
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Lonely As A Cloud
Jun 6, 2022
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The Time Machine
Scoop
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The Time Machine
Aug 4, 2021
There’s a pattern built into this story – can you work it out from the numbers in bold at the start of each section? I’m sitting on the beach by Rhodes port, watching sailors load our luggage onto a ship bound for Rome. I don’t want to go, but my f
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Boom!
White Horses
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Boom!
Oct 4, 2017
‘It was maybe a little bit bigger than we thought.’ You could hear it all the way down Sunset Strip. Even with the stezza cranked and the windows rolled up tight against the frost. A low, shuddery growl, reverbing against the sound of the engine, rum
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J.M.G. Le Clézio on the Expansive, Immersive Quality of Great Poetry
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J.M.G. Le Clézio on the Expansive, Immersive Quality of Great Poetry
Aug 22, 2019
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