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Actually Read Books Podcast Poetry Reading Videos

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1947 By Robin Chapman

June 19, 2016 Published by: actuallyreadbooks

It is the morning of the world
I want to tell you about,
my world of east Tennessee red clay
and crabgrass in its spiky rosette patches,

-Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1947 by Robin Chapman on the Proximity Magazine website.

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Rewind By Sabrina Presnell Rockoff

June 19, 2016 Published by: actuallyreadbooks

And you would have opened a window
To let in the noise of the street
And smell of the city

-Rewind By Sabrina Presnell Rockoff on the Smoky Blue Literary website.

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Retreating Snow by Reid McGrath

June 19, 2016 Published by: actuallyreadbooks

Like an old man dragging his long white hair
out of the lawn, back toward the forest’s shade,
the snow retreats,

-Retreating Snow By Reid McGrath on The Society of Classical Poets website.

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Sixteen By Cynthia Dewi Oka

June 19, 2016 Published by: actuallyreadbooks

the choice
erspac to give away
what you will not learn
erspacerspacers to live without

-Sixteen By Cynthia Dewi Oka on the Bedfellows Magazine website.

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Pray For Peace by Ellen Bass

June 19, 2016 Published by: actuallyreadbooks

Make the brushing of your hair
a prayer, every strand its own voice
singing in the choir on your head..

-Pray For Peace by Ellen Bass on The Sun Magazine website.

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Metaphor As Method by Kelly Cherry

June 19, 2016 Published by: actuallyreadbooks

one must admit a metaphor
is by far the shortest distance between two points.

-Metaphor As Method by Kelly Cherry on The Syzygy Poetry Journal website.

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Crow Mother (for Frida Kahlo) by Linda Rodriguez

June 19, 2016 Published by: actuallyreadbooks

I will curve my claws into paintbrushes
and carve my revenge into the souls
of those who wrong me.
I abstain from forgiveness
of grave accidents. Neither Diego nor God
shall escape me.

-Crow Mother (for Frida Kahlo) by Linda Rodriguez on The Pedestal Magazine website.

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59 Goodbyes by Rachel Kessler

June 19, 2016 Published by: actuallyreadbooks

Goodbye tired all the time
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Goodbye talking about tired all the time

-59 Goodbyes by Rachel Kessler on the Poetry Northwest website.

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Hidden Things By James Haug

June 19, 2016 Published by: actuallyreadbooks

A wire fence framed the Mooney’s yard
more to keep in than to keep out.
I loved the little girl, even her retarded
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brother spooning muddy water from a wagon.
Howdy was a song
I’d croon to their snarling white dog.

-Hidden Things by James Haug on the Turnrow website.

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Fifty Shades of Grey by Beatrice Mora

June 19, 2016 Published by: actuallyreadbooks

He sounds
out the rain.

-Fifty Shades of Grey by Beatrice Mora on the Ninth Letter website.

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