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Terry Blackhawk: A Springfield Ghazal

My grandfather “witnessed a lynching” my father recalled,
but “expressed no shame” about what he’d seen in Springfield.
“Only a boy,” my mother maintained, when my father
began to tell about his father that night in Springfield.

June 1, 2025 · 9 Comments

Patricia Clark: Riverside Ghazal

By the rivers of America, we wept these willows.

October 12, 2022 · 4 Comments

Dawn Potter: For David

The world is personal,
Dawn says. And what heart-scalded person
would think otherwise

August 1, 2022 · 2 Comments

Sandy Solomon: Ghazal

A night of ghazals comes to an end to fill with birds.
As the sky blues, their calls braid in New Jersey.

September 21, 2020 · 1 Comment

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