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Piccolo Orso* | Dee Allen
The front window-sills of houses In Noe Valley, San Francisco’s High-end suburb on the hill Above the Mission, Are galleries for Placards these days. Held fast to pane glass with Scotch Tape Are tack-board admonishments To neighbours unnerved by The continued march of Corona, Bearing words that soothe: EVERYTHING WILL BE OK. WE WILL SURVIVE….
“Stalin’s Holidays” by John Forbes [Thomas Moody]
“Stalin’s Holidays” is the title poem of John Forbes’ second collection. Happy holidays! Stalin’s Holidays The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Juniper berries bloom in the heat. My heart! ‘Bottoms up, Comrade.’ The nicotine-stained fingers of our latest defector shake as they reach for Sholokhov’s Lenin—the verandah is littered…
How I Spent My Quarantine Vacation | Stan Morrison
I had nearly nothing to do And so much time to do it Rearranged each room for Arc Digest Every drawer is now clean and redone All of my socks and my jockey shorts Passionately ironed and neatly arranged Shined shoes put back alphabetically Clothes closets emptied and rehung Total grooming plus daily mani/pedis Ordering…
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: October 4, 2023
Erin Marie Lynch’s debut poetry collection Removal Acts is nothing short of astonishing. A descendant of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Lynch’s title refers to the 1963 Federal Act that banished Dakota people from their homelands. From there she moves into all kinds of removals and erasures and violence, including poems about losing a…
WEDNESDAYS WITH DENISE: November 8, 2023
Nick Flynn’s LOW was published yesterday by Graywolf. The title (and epigraph) is from a hauntingly beautiful song by a band with the same name. Flynn’s poems haunt in very much the same way, one of the big themes of this set of poems being “home,” and what it means to those who come from…
In the Square | Zohar Teshartok
We stood, hugging, in the square Taking root into the concrete floor. Birds were nesting in the tree-tops of our heads. This time, Promises won’t move us! The post In the Square | Zohar Teshartok appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online