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Free Verse

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  • Poem
    By Peter O’Leary
    In a windthe lake's scissoring surfaceand the Sun's vernal glarethe gulls cut to curlsin their turns...
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    My brother holds a snake by its head. The whole length of the snake is the length of my brother’s body...
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    Is it okay to begin with the obvious? I am full of stones— is it okay not to look out this window, but...
  • Poem
    By Ada Limón
    I pass the feeder and yell, Grackle party! And then an hour later I yell, Mourning dove afterparty! (I call the feeder the...
  • Poem
    By R. L. Swihart
    The young man says, “Alan can do anything he wants”“Not fly,” I sayThe young man returns a puzzled look...
  • Poem
    By Cornelius Eady
    I’m here to tell you an old story. ThisAppears to be my work. I live in the world,Walk the streets of...
  • Poem
    By Cornelius Eady
    Some folks will tell you the blues is a woman,Some type of supernatural creature.My mother would tell...
  • Poem
    By Stephen Ratcliffe
    light coming into fog against invisible top of ridge, blue jay on redwood fence in foreground, sound...
  • Poem
    By Cole Swensen
    a river slips in shifting leaves sifting. a river sifts and falls to pieces in which not seen (this ...
  • Poem
    By John Murillo
    For me, the movie starts with a black man Leaping into an orbit of badges, tiny moons Catching the sheen...
  • Poem
    By Paisley Rekdal
    How horrible it is, how horrible that Cronenberg film where Goldblum’s trapped with a fly inside his...
  • Poem
    By David Roderick
    I wear a flower in my lapel. I like the sweetness of its lie in my nose. A carnation, the fool’s flower...
  • Poem
    By Cyrus Console
    Rotor wash, or the downward-flowing Air by which our helicopters formed Imprints in the jungle grass beneath ...
  • Poem
    By Holly Mitchell
    1. After the beginning of the gallop, there are counts when the horse is in the air, her legs withdrawn...
  • Poem
    By Walela Nehanda
    Crip (noun): slang for a disabled person/the whole of the disabled community/ a school of thought Example...
  • Poem
    By Lynn Emanuel
    Love is boring and passé, all that old baggage, the bloody bric-a-brac, the bad, the gothic, retrograde...
  • Poem
    By Jos Charles
    its a secrete the grls speeching mye hole / inn 2 the lindens / wee go out & playe footballe / verie...
  • Poem
    By Jean Valentine
    The hornet holds on to the curtain, winter sleep. Rubs her legs. Climbs the curtain. Behind her the ...
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