October 1, 2022 – 9:29 am
Poem for Wednesday Oh, humpback of the week, yardstick of productivity, all to play for, seesaw pivot of possibility. Is your gaze holding mine for fractionally longer than necessary a sign of desire or disgust? Will we even make it to the weekend together? Sometimes, Wednesday. I wonder why I bother. But then again it’s […]
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October 1, 2022 – 8:57 am
The Cat Comes to Me —after Heather McHugh The future looks like death to me from here standing behind you, in the musty basement where the cat is cornered. You think on your feet, quickly engineer a noose from a sponge mop and silicone rope – medieval design, cheap modern materials. The cat protests wildly, […]
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By Richard Osler
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Posted in Poetry
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Also tagged 000 Feet, 2021/2022 Freefall Poetry Award, From 20, Heather McHugh, Hinge & Sign, La Belle Epoch of Goldfish, La Romita Recovering Words 2017, La Romita Recovering Words 2019, La Romita Recovering Words 2022, Rattle, The Cat Comes To Me, The Cedars, The Garden Gnome Falls for a Northern Flicker
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September 6, 2022 – 5:57 pm
What something in me listens —after Ilya Kaminsky I try to hear the people breathing in parkades and the sound of talking over Molotov cocktails over making them and later the fhhhhhh shatter whoosh of the toss and the blaze in the street I don’t like to play the video footage the sound a peephole […]
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September 26, 2018 – 9:11 pm
Outrider her soul goes ahead to Umbria a slow traveller on horseback by boat in turns sends a note home after a few days don’t worry I’ve prepared a place for you there’s a hook for your coral necklace a bedside perch for your notebook a casement window open to a line for drying your […]
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