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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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Late May,

when heavy green 
begins to lean in—

green churning 
a deeper green—

and bees, fevered,...
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Shaker Cemetery

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Shaker Cemetery

If not for the few stones 
cracked into arrowheads 

and stumps, the symmetry
would signal the eternal....
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Invisible Current

Friends, I am happy to let you know that I am officially releasing my new book today.

It is now available for purchase.

I’m also appearing on The Megyn Kelly Show to discuss the book.

“The interview will air on SiriusXM The Megyn Kelly C...

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Margin Song

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Margin Song

In the bardo between seasons—
I’m undone
in sudden April snow.
This thin static hinged 
to an ashen sun,
unwindi...
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Holy Saturday

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Holy Saturday 

It isn’t absence, 
this darkness. Suspended here,
speechless in the wake 

of the Word’s descent,
we become t...
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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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