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tractor with turf
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Two poems by John Noonan

Dark turf The breeze stirred ferns on the high bank. I watched you drop down the layers of Cloneen bog, then...
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making silage
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Silage Time by Laura Swift

Listen to Laura Swift read her poem “Silage Time.”     Silage Time They looked so snug All four bundled...
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Two Poems by Jennifer A. Walker

Relic & once a series of pulleys rose sweet hay to the high-arched loft & once cattle were milked with...
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Two Poems by Bernard Pearson

Ardmore Bay Hearts may be harvested at such a place, between the sea and the dishevelled land Where in a...
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Two Poems by David Estringel

Life From a Garden Fence A wooden rain barrel— weathered and worn— slowly bleeds sweet elixir in drips and drabs...
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Three Poems by Nuala Roche

Gyrification There will be time for waiting Enough. Too much Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa watching. Consider the river’s meanders that more and more...
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Four Poems by Peter Burrows

The Wood He wanted to see the wood one last time. So, they took him back to trees dripping and...
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Three Poems by Matt Duggan

Lisbon Wake to the bustle smell cinnamon – sound of an accordion played by a woman with sewn eyes; Square...
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Three Poems by Jonathan Humble

Dandelion Sun A child’s sun finds a dream in young eyes. In blinks of dandelion eclipses, refracted light reflects on...
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Three Poems by Vinny Glynn-Steed

Somewhere in the Blue Majestic. I imagine you proud out there, somewhere high on an Appalachian trail, where the boulders...
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Three Poems by Aziz Dixon

My life as an onion dry skins for compost layers of meaning rings of time faster than a tree cut...
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Two Poems by Amanda Huggins

AT THE KITCHEN TABLE The late spring snow catches us off-guard, drifts against the henhouse wall, blots out the distant...
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