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SO WHAT
Frederick Seidel
‘Poetry is a disgrace on a warm spring day in March. You look at the sky with unconditional love.’
Poetry by Frederick Seidel.
Supernovae
Ellen Rachlin
‘Theory cannot be tangible fact / like driving on I-95 to get to a lecture / on supernovae.’
The Afterlife of Trees and Their Lovers
Sumana Roy
‘It is difficult to imagine a history of trees / without man in it. Man as tree, Tree as tale.’
The Butcher
Stephen Sexton
‘Outside deer are nowhere to be seen and inside / the radio spectrum fills up with sorrowful little packets of data.’
The Passing of the Contemplative Life
D. Ptryrczwz
‘she was not among those / I’d expected I might meet’
The Reckoning
Armand Garnet Ruffo
‘the earth will heal / eventually / magnificently / when our species / is gone’
The Second He
Nathaniel Rosenthalis
‘I like to play the footage back: / I was withstanding (I was grieving / the disappearing he was doing).’
A poem by Nathaniel Rosenthalis.
The Self-Illuminated
Don Paterson
‘One, perhaps his psalter, / the other, a manuscript, or a portable altar.’
