“The birds have abandoned our cities and the plagueof silence multiplies through their arteries…” – Derek Walcott, “In the Village” “The towns nearbythat survive on museums of their earlier burning. The dreams setin neighbor’s houses. The mounds with hooves and bones sticking out.The gentle sloping. We will always be swimmersdigging into the thaw…” – CatieContinue reading “Poem-a-Day”
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…Bring Mayflowers
It´s officially the end of National Poetry Month, and today is Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day. I´ve been looking through all the poems from this month and trying to choose a poem to print out, and sadly have a whole folder of unread poems in my email account from all the previous years. The best thing about Poem-a-DayContinue reading “…Bring Mayflowers”
mabel lee 