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Bertha Rogers: What Want Brings

Gray rain seeps through the fall
of played-out clouds, loops among hills,
ragged mountains; flexes and thins cut, contoured fields.

September 14, 2020 · 1 Comment

Molly Fisk: God Speaks to the Rope Swings of Summer

in his gentlest voice, reminding them
about change, about fallow fields and the quiet
everything needs to grow stronger

June 17, 2020 · 1 Comment

Peter Schireson: Hinge

We hold her X-ray
up to the light—

September 19, 2019 · Leave a comment

Karen Friedland: These Limpid Days

how ridiculously grateful I am now
for whatever divine forces brought me here,
to this very porch, this very summertime

August 5, 2019 · 1 Comment

Michael Simms: Four poems tracing an arc of forgiveness with real world examples

I was so sick of myself
Tired of everything tainted with myself.

October 14, 2018 · 42 Comments

Michael Simms: Evening in the Adirondacks

Always it will be late summer in your mind: Birches give off a full and dark light With a motion you know will abide and return Every evening. You are … Continue reading

August 23, 2016 · 9 Comments

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