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May 20, 2022
They come in the dark, slithering so, they need the night, preferring you asleep, your cabinets unlocked, fists unclenched...
May 17, 2022
Contained in this small pocket of verse are moments of care, regret, guilt, humor, tenderness, illness and hurt that are all triggered by a meditation on hair....
April 15, 2022
I didn’t come to worship but you’ve left me no choice... you still rock those power ballads, still heal with the same sweet force......
April 09, 2022
Momotaro is best known as the boy hero birthed from the seed of a peach in Japanese folklore. For Filipino-American poet, Chan, peaches evoke alienness: Europe, cans, boy-heroes, Japan, and America — peaches are part of the global world of trade....
April 01, 2022
Ted Kooser chooses an amusing poem about mirrors, and it is a rare one with rhyme....