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Poetry Off the Shelf
Camille Dungy on her garden, writing from the provinces, and the poetry of Anne Spencer.
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Gardening
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- ArticleBy Tyler MaloneFor a poem about the brevity of every state of being, the single octave perfectly enacts its themes through its form.
- ArticleBy Eric WeiskottA melancholy medieval rent collector’s sorrows, scribbled on the back of a legal document
- PoemBy Natasha Raolusting and unafraid. In this bipedal incarnation I have always been scared of my own ripening, mother...
- PoemBy Osip MandelstamToo black, too much indulged, living in clover, all little withers, all air, all charity, all crumbling...
- PoemBy Jesús Papoleto MeléndezIf some nice person Were to be walking by the front of my house and would pick a flower from the breasts...
- PoemBy Khaty XiongHere at my parents’ farm trumpeting bees scoring in the ears of all flowerkind chilies and kabocha ...
- PoemBy Nikki WallschlaegerMy fav event as harvest season approaches is the rough seed that escaped the plots. If there’s a cornfield...
- PoemBy Arvind Krishna Mehrotra1 Close to each other, socially undistanced, the mulberry leaves, uniformly green, shall turn brown ...
- PoemBy James McMichaelThe Artichoke She bore only the heart, Worked at the stem with her Fingers, pulling it to her, And into her, like...
- PoemBy Marion McCreadyA Mardi Gras of primroses line my driveway. Pin-eyed, thrum-eyed, natural selection in action; the carnival...
- PoemBy Sylvia Legrispart 1. uprooted the early sky 1 Luminous flowers and luminous insects. Fire lilies and fireflies. ...
- PoemBy Alyse KnorrBetween us bobs the baby, solemn in her infant wet suit. The pool is the only place where screaming ...
- PoemBy Carolyn GuinzioNeighbor, your mower cast dust over the edge where the field meets the field, toy-sized ring- necked...
- PoemBy Susan StewartWho are you? Where are you hiding? Were you thrown, tumbling through space, aleatory, radiant, only ...
- PoemBy Divya VictorWe are on our knees. We are saying that the tulips have had it hard this week. We are saying something...
- PoemBy John KinsellaPollination against the seed to grow canopy and mark place in shades of green—dry here to reflect in...
- PoemBy Fanny HoweMonostich: a long sentence Sternum: a little chest Heart: upside down Location of the unconscious: Empty...
- PoemBy Sylvia Legris1 A pepper of bees opens the pupils. An ensemble of aromatics Chorus aphrodisia, mariner’s root, bright sky and...
- PoemBy Karenne WoodWhen I learned I might have cancer, I bought fifteen white lilies. Easter was gone: the trumpets were...