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Lara Dolphin
Frida's Accident
Frida's Accident Where Cuahutemozin meets Calzada de Tlalpan An electric streetcar and a city bus Smash each other apart Wailing plañide...
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Maggie Bedordd
Losing my Daughter
Losing my Daughter Death not like movies crisp white sheets hair neatly combed Death a face too tired to wash clothes sticky with sweat smel...
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Enno de Witt
Votum and Greeting
Votum and Greeting Bury me in the worn wooden benches and cover my grave with cushions and songbooks--choose an unintelligible text--about t...
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Katrenia Grace Busch
My Heart’s Piece
My Heart’s Piece Mine heart broken into two As sorrow filled the space Between what was known as me and you Together sewed as its lace B...
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James Vincent Harker Jr
John Grey
The Man in the Cabin
The Man in the Cabin You cannot understand this world. For all the wonder and wealth it provides, it’s deeply incriminated in the death of f...
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Stephen Barile
The Psychic Called
The Psychic Called My brother is butting in to his loved one's lives again from on the other side, and he won't leave the psychic a...
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Darrell Petska
Afterlives
Afterlives Still you tower, revered progenitor gone barkless and craggy, ancient citizen of the sun-swept savanna. Riding you, red-tailed ha...
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Sam Barbee
Kindred - A Murder Sonnet
Kindred - A Murder Sonnet Eva shuffles twin iron pots makin' room for fry-pan on grief's charred burner. Supper fork and spoon washe...
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Darrell Petska
Last Will and Testament
Last Will and Testament ...and to the kiddos I award my old jalopy, Earth. Although I've driven her hard, she's still got some miles...
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Rebecca Ross
For My Classmate Who Drowned Before Growing Up
For My Classmate Who Drowned Before Growing Up I kneel at the shore of Lake Skannatati, looking glass waters bordered by trees choking on au...
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Martha Ellen Johnson
Illuminated Places
Illuminated Places The night she died I had a dream. I saw her walking in a pleasant landscape on an uphill footpath toward an illuminated p...
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Bart Edelman
The Day Ruby Passed Away
The Day Ruby Passed Away Sunny, but not hot. Pleasant, some may say. Wisp of wind from the west, Called the departed home; Whip-poor-will’s ...
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John Davis
Understanding the Dead
Understanding the Dead You can comb their hair and they don’t care if you miss a strand or thwap their watch band Tease them with sassafras...
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John RC Potter
Dead Man Drowning
Dead Man Drowning You are a dead man drowning, body bobbing below the surface. The top of the water is a mirror, a face distorted somewhere ...
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The poets in this collection have put words on their love to honor those who have passed and to honor those whom they love here and now. This collection is a celebration of life as it explores the experiences of loved lives.
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