Admit Absence
JoeDry poems for a dry season.
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Nocturne
Paris Catacombs © 2026
Nocturne
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Let all my sense become a shadow guide
through the terrible crypt of my final refrain.
I do not fea...
Ulysses Mariner
Arnold Böcklin, Odysseus and Polyphemus, 1896 (Wikimedia Commons)
Ulysses Mariner
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A flooding world is hidden in gloom
and long it hid w...
The Hermit
Author’s Note: recently challenged subscribers to compose a poem in the form of a list. I don’t typically go for that sort of thing, but her examples were compelling enough that I was inspired to write the following. If you’d like creative...
To My Heart
Sawtooth Wilderness (2026)
Note from a High Rock
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Doomed heart! How I admire you
for releasing that blood back to me
whose absence p...
Impossible
Oslo 2026
Impossible
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I am writing a poem for my father
or, rather, for the impossibility
of preventing his imminent doom....
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Joe is a poet and editor focused on applying wisdom traditions to contemporary crisis. He has a PhD in English from the Johns Hopkins University and has completed postdoctoral fellowships in expository writing, moral leadership, and the rule of law.
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