sunrise so intense -- and so quickly gone!

#NoKings Day, Lexington, MA

"A thin filament of logic keeps the poem surging forward, even if it’s ultimately a circuit back to mortality." David Schurman Wallace reviews Natalie Shapero’s "Stay Dead." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/cough-up-the-pill

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

Robert Pinsky on Czesław Miłosz’s “Incantation” Poets reflect on the poems they return to in difficult times.

poetrysociety.org/features/rea...

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Today's poem is "Cerberus"
by Maggie Dietz
from AGNI
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George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins

Jennifer Clarvoe — Bad Lilies Two poems by Jennifer Clarvoe

"on its back, one paw
raised as if to speak, oh oh
but never to speak

to be taken mid-
thought"

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Dead Rat by Jennifer Clarvoe (2023 @badlilies.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/4eemk4k2

or verschwundenevogelstille...

nachvogelstille....(not that it's an actual word)