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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A backroad tanka
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Between deep cornfields
grasping in tandem the gone
sun, and power-lines
sloping to hold the weight of
twilight—waxing gibbous moon.
two poems
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Enclosures
Idiot music
seeps from a third-floor window—
ripped screen flapping like
a flag rotting in a field
of fad...
At Once
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At Once
A thought collapses
beneath the weight of
bird noise needling
the bedroom walls.
All of this green
breath...
Field Note
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Field Note
Lilacs, chlorine, manure.
I walk through the coiled scent,
headless, a figment of early summer.
In the white and yellow w...
On the Solstice
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On the Solstice
Lightning stilts
the gloam, lingers
behind the eyes.
A negotiation
between stasis
and abrasion,...
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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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