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Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.

ALLAN PETERSON
I thought all life came from the alphabet

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You have my word on it hand on it /
a book a note a dying sun behind a cloud

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I had /
a love. A blue /
kite untwisting /
the sky.

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the news: yr dead, I look /
at the page, grow /
broken at the root

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Here they are the words fluttering in the mind

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my love / unwinding / the rope

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sometimes i crouch like a creature in my house

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If a memory bears radiation’s / relationship to time

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Other birds punctuate (our) song

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Probably most words / should be fully felt but never said

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so banal a demand it went unnoticed