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Dispatches From the Basement

Joseph Massey
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I offer poetry that seeks out the sacred in the ordinary, accompanied by original photography. No politics, no hot takes, just poetry.

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The disruption of other colors

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I slept myself sick
through summer, waiting

for October’s quick ignition—

the disruption of other colors.
In the room where I w...
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October is here!

a poem for the best month of the year

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Flyleaf

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Flyleaf

In the dawn-sharpened 
cold, the fuzzed-over hours 

spent in a small room
at the swamp end 
of August

reco...
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Happy autumnal equinox!

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Autumnal Equinox

Sober for once, for what—
for the words to budge.

We spent summer propped up
by each other’s stuttering....
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Another Way

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Another Way

I waited
for morning

to offer 
an altar—

for first light 
to unfold 

a new form. 
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    Joseph Massey is the author of Decades: Selected Poems (The Exile Press, 2024) and many other collections of poetry. He lives in Upstate New York.

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