
This is the Substack of Michael R. Burch with some of his very best poems and translations.
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Kate Winslet portraying Ophelia in Hamlet (1996)
Sometimes there’s a thin line between holy love and animal lust…
Chloe
by Michael R. Burch
There were skies onyx at night … moons by day …
lakes pale as her eyes … breathless winds...
Daria Zhemkova
Step Into Starlight
by Michael R. Burch
Step into starlight,
lovely and wild,
lonely and longing,
a woman, a child . . .
Throw back drawn curtains,
enter the night,
dream of his kiss
as a comet ignite...
Angelina Jolie
ACT I: Show Me
Show me your most intimate items of apparel;
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
—Michael R. Burch, “Negligibles”
ACT II: Are You the Thief?
by Michael R. Burch
When I touch you no...
Safe Harbor
by Michael R. Burch
for Kevin N. Roberts
The sea at night seems
an alembic of dreams—
the moans of the gulls,
the foghorns’ bawlings.
A century late
to be melancholy,
I watch the last shrimp boat as it...
we did not Dye in vain!
by Michael R. Burch
from “songs of the sea snails”
though i’m just a slimy crawler,
my lineage is proud:
my forebears gave their lives
(oh, let the trumps blare loud!)
so purple-mantled Royals
m...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
I am a poet, translator, essayist, literary critic, editor and publisher. My poems have been published by hundreds of literary journals, taught in high schools and colleges, translated into 23 languages, and set to music 79 times by 36 composers.
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