
This is the Substack of Michael R. Burch with some of his very best poems and translations.
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Ordinary Love
by Michael R. Burch
Indescribable—our love—and still we say
with eyes averted, turning out the light,
“I love you,” in the ordinary way
and tug the coverlet where once we lay,
all suntanned limbs entangled, s...
Kate Winslet portraying Ophelia in Hamlet (1996)
She Was Very Strange, and Beautiful
by Michael R. Burch
for a modern Ophelia
She was very strange, and beautiful,
like a violet mist enshrouding hills
before night falls
wh...
The Locker
by Michael R. Burch
All the dull hollow clamor has died
and what was contained,
removed,
reproved
adulation or sentiment,
left with the pungent darkness
as remembered as the sudden light.
Originally publi...
In Praise of Meter
by Michael R. Burch
The earth is full of rhythms so precise
the octave of the crystal can produce
a trillion oscillations, yet not lose
a second’s beat. The ear needs no device
to hear the unsprung rhythms...
Kelly LeBrock
The Effects of Memory
by Michael R. Burch
A black ringlet
curls to lie
at the nape of her neck,
glistening with sweat
in the evaporate moonlight ...
This is what I remember
now that I cannot forget....
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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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