☀ Today's Poem: "Recurring" Patrycja Humienik

August 1, 2023

Whatever the time of day, whether the sky is florescent,
or fluorescent, or dissolving color

to impression, or I'm not tracking the sky, perhaps for once
not inhabiting the subjunctive mood,

whether with a beloved, whose face is turning away—no
matter if I am in fact alone, on a beach,

looking out toward the doctrine of horizon, there is
always, in the dream, a wall of water

before me, impossible to outrun, azure, cruel, how
beauty exists with no regard for goodness or the living,

and if I'm inside, even if I cannot see that weather,
I can feel it, eroding the floorboards, disintegrating

reason, it is ceaseless. It has an appetite.

from the journal HAYDEN’S FERRY REVIEW

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Oliver de la Paz on “Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns”

"I thought that a pantoum was a perfect form to illustrate a sense of entrapment. The form’s relentless circularity was a way for me to suggest the plight of people who had very few options available to them."

via Poetry Society of America

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What Sparks Poetry:
Michael Dumanis on Natalie Eilbert's Overland

"The word 'overland' connotes an arduous journey, a direct engagement with the environment and the vicissitude of nature. Broken into its constituent parts, 'over land,' the term is also the root of global disputes, why nations go to war. 'Over' can mean about, but also done, finis, kaput. But this is more a book of journey through life than despair at it."

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