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Dear Readers,
In our prose series this week, we present "Women Stay Put," by Lesley Wheeler, from Crab Orchard Review:
"'He told me I was your companion pony,' Claudia said.
"In the fall of 1994, Claudia Emerson and I worked in a neoclassical building whose three-story white columns were annually draped in black crepe, to commemorate Robert E. Lee's birthday. 'He' was another youngish professor employed by our department, and when you teach at a small college in a small town, your colleagues are inescapable. More than two decades later, the grocery store is still jammed with faculty members surveying the contents of each other's carts. Claudia joked that if you ducked into Harris Teeter on a Tuesday to buy tater tots and beer, you'd better be prepared for the Dean on line behind you, registering your lack of ambition for the evening.
"'You know how they keep a pony around as company for the racehorse?' the guy asked, maybe in the freezer aisle. 'Well, Lesley's the racehorse.'''
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Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
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Monday - Alicia Wright
Tuesday - Nausheen Eusuf
Wednesday - Carl Phillips
Thursday - Claire Schwartz
Friday - Kai Carlson Wee
Saturday - Myriam Fraga / tr. Chloe Hill
Sunday - Stevie Howell
6. Featured Poets January 29, 2018 - February 4, 2018
These and other past featured poets may be found in our archive:
Monday - Esteban RodrÃguez
Tuesday - Albert Goldbarth
Wednesday - Beverley Bie Brahic
Thursday - Josh Myers
Friday - Ian Parks
Saturday - Hilary S. Jacqmin
Sunday - Brandon Krieg
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These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
D. A. Lockhart, "Spring Runoff Prayer"
Rachael Allen, "Many Bird Roast"
Joe Wilkins, "In His Previous Life as a Camas Lily"
Susan Stewart, "A Language"
William Corbett, "Clear November Morning"
A. E. Stallings, "Gentleman Crow"
Shara McCallum, "Fable"
8. Poem From Last Year
Gentleman Crow
Pacing to and fro
Along the autumn shore
Among the wrack and reek
With your arms clasped behind your back
And sporting your grey frock-coat
Trimmed in black
And your black hat and your lean long-legged stride,
Up and down the strand perusing
The headlines of the tide:
Casualties and statistics, futures, stocks,
The thousand natural shocks,
You clear your throat
Inspecting the ink-black seaweed tossed among the rocks
Like obsolete typewriter ribbons, rusty widowÂs weeds,
Scanning the flotsam for
Morsels cast up by the remorseless gossip of the seaÂs
Ãminence grise,
How elegant you are, everyone concedes,
Gentleman Crow,
With your gimlet gaze, your sardonic beak,
How omnivorous, how sleek.
Life is a joke you crack,
Wry and amusing,
And death a dainty snack.
A. E. Stallings
Subtropics
Fall/Winter 2016
Copyright © 2016 by A. E. Stallings
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Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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