Poems you don't have to be a poet to love
Radically accessible poemsPoems, literary excerpts, opinionated opinions.
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Obligato
This poem by Dorianne Laux uses one of my favorite words—obligato from the language of music, an undeniable, repeated theme that underlies or compliments the melody.
Against Endings
On the street outside the window
someone is talkin...
A May Poem
Eyesight
It was May before my
attention came
to spring and
my word I said
to the southern slopes
I’ve
missed it, it
came and went before
I got right to see:
don’t worry, said the mountain,
try the later northern slopes...
A Green Crab's Shell
Not nearly as long as Fairchild’s Beauty, but still takes a minute or two to read, and is also worth it.
A Green Crab’s Shell
Not, exactly, green:
closer to bronze
preserved in kind brine,
something retrieved
from a Greco-R...
Beauty
I rarely publish long poems, but this one is worth taking a few minutes and reading to the very end. It’s a narrative poem, so you can think of it like a very short story, beautifully written.
Beauty
-Therefore,
Their sons grow sui...
Brevity
William Stafford famously wrote a poem each day. When asked how he managed that, he replied. “Lower your standards.” Many of his poems were short, but I don’t think his standards were low.
NOTE
straw, feathers, dust–
little things...
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Meryl Natchez took a leave of absence in her Junior year of college and has been rigorously home schooling herself ever since. Her fourth book, Catwalk, received an Indie Best Book 2020 Award from Kirkus Reviews.
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