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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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Guest poet: Fr. Ryan Sliwa

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Thanatopsis at the Bryant Cemetery 

	“To the MEMORY of Mr Timothy Mower 
	Who finished an exemplary life in the midst of his usefulness on t...
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Guest poet: Robert Kelly

I am overjoyed to present to you eleven new lunes composed by the man who devised the form, Robert Kelly.

As some of you know, the “lune” is an abbreviated form of traditional haiku, formally speaking. The syllable count is 5/3/5, forming...

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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

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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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