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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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....
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...
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...
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...
"We catch our breath and wait."
“Unseasonably” appears in my book Decades: Selected Poems, but I recently made a few small edits to the piece and thought to share it again. Because ‘tis the season.
—JM
Unseasonably
i.
Spring coming in now, in the light, in the scintil...
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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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