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Storm Clouds Judy Clarence
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Live Oak and Suddenly a Storm by Judy Clarence

Live Oak After seven years of walking this road, I’ve picked my tree. I hug it daily, stretch my arms...
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Making Hay by Emily Tee
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All Flesh is Grass and Other Poems by Emily Tee

All Flesh Is Grass The days passed quickly, back then, though some hours lingered in that hot hospital room, waiting,...
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Two Poems by Marc Harshman

Coals The abandoned farm is a black pool aaaaaaain the memory of the forest beyond. The road goes by never...
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Old sled
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Circa 1900 and Other Poems by Daril Bentley

Circa 1900 Waldo sharpened the blades of his turn-of-the-last-century sled and slid Downhill at age eighty-four. His wife chided him,...
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Shannon Castor Him and the Dog
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Him and the Dog by Shannon Castor

Him and the Dog She stands birching Towards river Black metal liquid Sweating paper Southeast Her pepper white skin flapping...
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Michael Durack rights about turf
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Three Poems by Michael Durack

Controversy Not looking for Controversy, I found it four miles from where I grew up, as the crow flies. Controversy...
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Condo
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Moving On, Not Moving On and Other Poems by D.R. James

Moving On, Not Moving On I think I knew our new home was two states west of home. But what...
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Hindsight by Laura Grace Weldon
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Hindsight and Other Poems by Laura Grace Weldon

Hindsight isn’t up close as a rearview mirror. It’s unearthed, like the little blue boot turned up by the tractor...
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Jeremy Haworth
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Four Season Farm by Jeremy Haworth

Jeremy Haworth is an Irish poet and writer. In 2019, he started Charis Garden, renovating a tumbledown farmstead and walled...
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House fire for Syndey Lea's poem
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Three Poems by Sydney Lea

My Uncle’s Farm I recollect particulars by the dozen, But late in life I yearn to shift the sensory into...
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old shed by Bob Brussack
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Two Poems by Bob Brussack

Daughter of the Deep Places A hardwood doesn’t settle in its spot Out of any preference for that spot. She...
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The lane in Nora Brennan's poems
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Three Poems by Nora Brennan

Passing Through Uncertain if it was my home, the shifting lens of time bears down on the house – nearer...
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