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Poem of The Day
By Nathanael Jones
We paint all these rooms white without ever questioning the reasoning behind the labor. This fractured tongue hiding in the rafters. With it I saw holes in the ceiling between furring strips, collect grains of primer, plaster. Raster graphics embed the epithelial horizon with macros. Cue goosebumps. The battlefield in miniature …
Poem of The Day
By Frank Stanford
There are many people who come back
After the doctor has smoothed the sheet
Around their body
And left the room to make his call....
After the doctor has smoothed the sheet
Around their body
And left the room to make his call....
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Related to acrostic, a poem in which the first letter of each line or stanza follows sequentially through the alphabet. See Jessica Greenbaum, “A Poem for S.” Tom Disch’s “Abecedary” adapts the principles of an abecedarian poem, while Matthea Harvey’s “The Future of Terror/The Terror of Future” sequence also uses the alphabet as an organizing principle. Poets who have used the abecedarian across whole collections include Mary Jo Bang, in The Bride of E, and Harryette Mullen, in Sleeping with the…
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