The Sun in Bemidji, Minnesota

Poem Of The Day / July 18, 2026

The sun isn't even a pearl today-
its light diffused, strained gray
by winter haze-this the grayest
day so far, so when I enter the Wells
Fargo parking lot the last thing I expect
is to see ...Read More

Sonnet

Poem Of The Day / July 17, 2026

Lo, even as I passed beside the booth
Of roses, and beheld them brightly twine
To damask heights, taking them as a sign
Of my own self still unconcerned with truth;
Even as I held up in hands ...Read More

Thought Poem for Victor Martinez (Undelivered)

Poem Of The Day / July 16, 2026

You said:
What you wrote (at this moment-here)
was being written by someone somewhere else
at the same time (this is the question) some
country some town on stilts-in a broken
concentration ...Read More

Employment

Poem Of The Day / July 15, 2026

At the time the time felt well spent but now
I see it was wasted. Not a waste-it just had
no point-no shape-no hourglass' tapering
waist. At a certain point, bliss gets replaced
by disinterest. If ...Read More

Ali! Ali!

Poem Of The Day / July 14, 2026

It's late and your heart skips watching
that young man fight. The Garden, the left
jab lashes like a frog's tongue catching
a fly. There you go again with an undeft

image to his arthropod ...Read More

After the First Child, the Second

Poem Of The Day / July 13, 2026

for Chris Martin
To you
through whom

these sudden days
blowse & hum

thirst & quench
a tide of tensing trees

days tick by
beats in a song

my ...Read More