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POEM WEDNESDAY – The Way Back by George Witte

13 Wednesday Apr 2016

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George Witte’s poem, “The Way Back” is in the Winter 2016 issue of The Antioch Review.

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THE WAY BACK
by George Witte

Not pebbles   bread   abandoned children’s shoes
scat trail of fearful ingenuity
but contour lines   familiar sloping hills
crushed mailbox where we know to turn   don’t tell
light falling as it fell across the lake
in postcard photographs   our neighbor seemed
grandfatherly   side door so dark and low
outsiders wouldn’t dare investigate
we scavenged garbage   basements   backyard sheds
for private implements   with crows convened
on autumn roads to pluck remains and scream
no telling where we ended up or who
pursued   the glazed and crenellated house
the oven’s rancid breath   don’t tell how close
we came or what we did to live again
air parting air   we glide enshadowed paths
malingering among regretful things
damp pebbles bright as eyes   crusts soft and warm
our shoes transparent   delicate   they fit
as if we never ran away   unlaced
deranged   splayed open with their tongues pulled out

***

 

George Witte photo(1)George Witte is the author of three collections of poems, Does She Have a Name? (NYQ Books, 2014), Deniability (2009), and The Apparitioners (2004), the latter two from Orchises Press.  His poems have been published in numerous journals, and reprinted in the Best American Poets, Vocabula 2, Old Flame, Rabbit Ears, and The Doll Collection anthologies.  He lives with his family in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

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Poem Wednesday – Y by Leslie Adrienne Miller

21 Wednesday Oct 2015

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Y

by Leslie Adrienne Miller
Perhaps it’s a thread that needs to be pulled,
a single stitch caught in the crux.

Whole word in French and Spanish,
vertical axis of Cartesian three

loaning its fragile branch to a boy
in theory.  On y va.  Let’s go There.
 
What happens to unrepaired sequences
in subsequent generations?  Semivowel,

blown umbrella, arrow reversed in wind,
frizzy blot of genetic code directing the symphony

of a trillion sperm, a single Y. . .might fold over,
line up these similar patches of genetic sequence,
 
and then accidentally delete everything
that lies in between.  Je est un autre.

If the face is a christening in flesh,
the boy of him is its opposite,

raising the tent of bones in which
he will harbor all the starry anomalies

that a knowledge of God cannot undo.

***

LAMiller_633Leslie Adrienne Miller is author of six collections of poetry including Y, The Resurrection Trade and Eat Quite Everything You See from Graywolf Press, and Yesterday Had a Man in It, Ungodliness, and Staying Up For Love from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Professor of English at the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Houston, an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, an M.A. from the University of Missouri, and a B.A. from Stephens College.

http://leslieadriennemillerpoet.com/

 

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POEM WEDNESDAY – Dumuzi Bids Innana Goodbye by Chard deNiord

22 Wednesday Jul 2015

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This poem appeared in the Winter 2015 issue of The Antioch Review.

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DUMUZI BIDS INNANA GOODBYE

by Chard deNiord

A breeze blew through your cotton dress
that hung like a curtain in the open window.

I tried to wake you a thousand times.
I tried to put your dress back on.

How sweet the sourwood hung inside the breeze.
How brightly the sun shone through the window.

It was not a place I could breathe for long, despite the breeze.
I was dressed in only the flesh your sister stripped

with invisible hands as I paused to kiss your lips a final time.
As I tried to explain my love for power in the upper world.

I wandered without my body that hung on a nail
below a sign that read:

Grief is an empty museum in which you roam in search
of even a frame. Silence the alarm in every room.

I felt as clean as a cloud, although I smelled of dirt
and stone. Although I ran as I slept.

***

Chard deNiord is the author of five books of poetry, Interstate, which is forthcoming from The University of Pittsburgh Press this September, The Double Truth (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), Night Mowing (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Sharp Golden Thorn (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003) and Asleep in the Fire (University of Alabama Press, 1990). His book of essays and interviews with seven senior American poets (Lucille Clifton, Ruth Stone, Jack Gilbert, Maxine Kumin, Robert Bly, Galway Kinnell, Donald Hall) titled Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs, Conversations and Reflections on 20th Century American Poets was published in 2011 by Marick Press. In 2002 he co-founded the New England College MFA Program in Poetry, which he directed until 2007. He is a professor of English at Providence College and lives in Putney.

 

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