Tuesday poem #460 : Julian Day : Red Sun

 

Wildfires east and west.
That acrid tang: desperation
of the Roman army
at Cannae.

Dead grackle on the road,
dead robin in the garden.
Our polarities reverse
and the smoke descends.
Suddenly we’re walking
through the clouds.
Then, flying.

 

 

 

 

Julian Day lives in Winnipeg. His debut chapbook is Late Summer Flowers (Anstruther Press, 2021). 

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Tuesday poem #459 : Katie Naughton : debt ritual: utopia

 

 

an orientation toward evening
okay the sun is going down first
golden purples of snow the late
stage for being this end of storm
says one way to be is you two
and a baby and an apartment
and in the afternoon you go out
all together I mean
it’s possible to move through time
and space together and money’s
adjacency to this
incidental but not transcendent
so a child does not know
at some point what it is
so the body’s organic
life as well walking without
money the sky does glow
blue and deep and bright
where clouds part after sunset
going back inside money
does buy this place
of rest and warmth

 

 

 

Katie Naughton is the author of the chapbook Study (above/ground press, 2021). Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Bennington Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Jubilat, Tagvverk, and elsewhere. She is at work on two collections of poems, “Debt Ritual” and “the real ethereal,” which was a finalist for the 2021 Nightboat Poetry Prize and Autumn House Press Book Prize. She is the publicity editor for Essay Press, editor and project manager at the HOW(ever) and How2 Digital Archive Project (launching in 2022), and founder of Etcetera, a web journal of reading recommendations from poets (www.etceterapoetry.com). She lives in Buffalo, NY, where she is a doctoral candidate in the Poetics program at SUNY – Buffalo.

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Tuesday poem #458 : Meghan Kemp-Gee : A REMINDER

 

 

Inside you remains the one-two
march, the full, the fullest
sentence, when the judge says
You, behold what’s left here
on the mediation table,
Here the knife, the rabbit.

 

 

Meghan Kemp-Gee lives somewhere between Vancouver BC and Fredericton NB. She writes poetry, comics, and scripts of all kinds. She co-created the webcomics Contested Strip and Space Heroines of El-Andoo, and her short comics and stories have been published in numerous anthologies. Her poetry has recently appeared in Copper Nickel, Rising Phoenix Review, Tincture, Stone of Madness, Altadena Poetry Review, Anomaly, and Rejection Letters. She also teaches composition and plays ultimate frisbee. You can find her on Twitter @MadMollGreen.

the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan