Poem for Philip on World Poetry Day, 2021 Sleeping with you every night Could never be tedious, no, it’s as marvelous As the stars and milk you dust my coffee With each morning, and who but you Would rise, fill the mighty press, steep my French Roast with water roiled in an old Wolfgang Puck …
Poetry Review: Nightmares & Miracles by Michelle Bitting Michelle Bitting’s Nightmares & Miracles goes straight into the center of things that matter, but that is not surprising. Bitting is a poet who never wastes our time. She helps us to understand what is magic and horrible in our world as the title of this collection suggests. …
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Good Friday Ukraine Egg Verse Yesterday, a crow rinsed its rare scrap of carrion in our backyard bath, mucking the waters, corpsing the flower bed with discarded entrails of some conquered creature—caught and scattered across the field. I like to imagine strangers, and good friends, too—gathered pagans and pilgrims, both, inside candle bright naves of …
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Michelle Bitting has work published in The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Narrative, diode, Rattle, the Paris-American, L.A. Weekly, Linebreak and others. Poems have appeared on Poetry Daily and as the Weekly Feature on Verse Daily. Her book Good Friday Kiss won the DeNovo First Book Award and Notes to the Beloved received a starred Kirkus Review as …
The fact of the airborne heart, / that gritty, wet red engine revved…
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