Browsing Category Dog Days of Poetry

“Waiting for the Sun” and “Pulling Weeds”

in Dog Days of Poetry Poetry on July 21, 2022 July 15, 2022

Waiting for the Sun in Upstate New York, smeared with Criscoand a silver sun catcher unfolded across my chest,I think I have it all figured out.I’m 17 and plan to have a big house like…

Fabric

in Dog Days of Poetry Poetry on July 18, 2022 July 12, 2022

Faded, threadbare, my earliest memories are stitched together by the whir and click of my grandmother’s Singer 66. She kept me clothed—through the corn-silk heat of Iowa summers to the snow-blind winters with ruptured water…

Sugar, Starch

in Dog Days of Poetry Poetry on July 14, 2022 July 13, 2022

That’s how the cornin its summer song of silk and husk, its tassels waving across the field, calling to rat and raven; how my mother, before she lost her heartand lungs; how my brother-in-law, before…

Tempest in the Cerebellum

in Dog Days of Poetry Poetry on July 11, 2022 July 14, 2022

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Frontier(s)

in Dog Days of Poetry Poetry on July 7, 2022 July 2, 2022

Against an unsettled skyline puncturedby flit & bird-shadow, song & plummet, someone else’s history unfurls beforethe ghost of my grandfather can wrap his huge dead hands over my son’s not-yet-dead eyes. Is this what it…