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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: An Open Thank You Letter to Kristen Who Works at the Cemetery

There are moments so flooded with tenderness
every wall around our heart collapses
from the beauty of it

January 4, 2023 · 20 Comments

Stephen Dobyns: Laugh

What he wished was to have his ashes flushed
down the ladies’ room toilet of Syracuse City Hall,
which would so clog the pipes that the resulting
blast of glutinous broth would douse the place clean

April 30, 2020 · 4 Comments

John Samuel Tieman: Family Plot

. History of Poetry this afternoon’s brief history of poetry — I take out the trash a hungry robin I know sings for her dinner raisin — Family Plot sis … Continue reading

May 20, 2015 · 1 Comment

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