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Dear Readers,
This week in our prose series is "Cool Control of Syllables," a review by Alex Albright of The Complete Poems of A.R. Ammons, edited by Robert West, from the spring issue of Tar River Poetry:
"... everywhere the poet seeks out borders and edges, peripheries and the margins that 'are places for things to happen,' as he tries to reconcile the conflicting pulls of unity and diversity, the common and mystical, order and chaos. He admires the newly plowed and planted field but wants 'to disk up an acre by mistake'; he loves his birds but has an urge to find 'the roosts / of birds, flush them & hear / the shrieks of panic.'"
Look for it here...
Enjoy this week's poems!
Warmest regards,
Don Selby & Diane Boller
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Tuesday - Monica Sok
Wednesday - Ted Kooser
Thursday - Margaret Gibson
Friday - Jane Satterfield
Saturday - Hayden Saunier
Sunday -Jennifer O'Grady
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Tuesday - Matthew Dickman
Wednesday - Paul Martin
Thursday - Peter Mishler
Friday - Henrietta Goodman
Saturday - Alicia Mountain
Sunday -Christopher Buckley
7. Last Year’s Featured Poets
These poems will be retired from our archive during the coming week.
Richard Osmond, "Useful Verses for Distinguishing Cow Parsley from Poison Hemlock"
Alison C. Rollins, "Elephants Born Without Tusks"
Deborah Bogen, "The Year God Developed Cataracts"
Jason Sommer, "Incident at the Mother's"
Jay Hopler, "Swarm"
Jack Marshall, "Eye-Crowned"
R. T. Smith, "Duet"
8. Poem From Last Year
Elephants Born Without Tusks
The Washington Post says that green burials areÂ
on the rise, as baby boomers plan for their future
their graves marked with sprouting mushrooms
little kneecaps crawling up from the dirt's skin
like Michael Brown decomposing into the concreteÂ
ending as natural product of the environment.
Elephants are now being born without tusks
their genetics having studied the black market
DNAÂ a spiral ladder carefully carved
from wooden teeth of Founding Fathers.
Never let a chromosome speak for you, they will
only tell a mythÂan ode to the survival of the fittest.
Peppered moths are used to teach natural selectionÂ
their changes in color an instance of evolution.
Birds unable to see dark moths on soot covered trees.Â
The number of blacks always rising with industry.
Life is the process of erosion, an inevitable wearing downÂ
of the enamel. The gums posing the threat of disease.
On most websites they suggest biodegrading
choosing a coffin made from pine or wicker.
The man in the paper said, I want to be part of a tree,Â
be part of a flowerÂgo back to being part of the Earth.
I imagined my Mother then, her short-cropped hairÂ
like freshly cut grass, immune to the pains of mowing.
The Natural Burial Guide for Turning Yourself into aÂ
Forest sits waiting in my Amazon shopping cart.
Pink salmon have now evolved to migrate earlier
I am familiar with this type of Middle Passage
a loved one watching you move on without a traceÂ
the living inheriting an ocean of time
the sun rewiring the water-damaged insidesÂ
cells desiring to go back from where they came
\\ certain strands of
your kind now extinct.
Â
Alison C. Rollins
American Poetry Review
May/June 2017
Copyright © 2017 by Alison C. Rollins
All rights reserved.
Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission
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