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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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poems by Christina Hennemann
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Two Poems by Christina Hennemann

Country Love and Lore Scarecrow needs a new suit. What will the neighbours think, between our field and theirs it...
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country lane
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Two poems by Marie Studer

The Last Mile I ran from tail flicking Friesians their eyes, pools of nowhere, and when everywhere wore off I...
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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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Carrots
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Weeding in the Tillage Field c.1969 by Edward Denniston

Weeding in the Tillage Field c.1969 Drizzly rain in for the day. The young lad, set to weeding the tillage-patch...
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Apple trees
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When They Ring Those Golden Bells by David Estringel 

When They Ring Those Golden Bells  Days fall away like apples from October tress cheeks, full and ablush, kissing silver from delicate wrists...
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