by McKenzie | Jul 28, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
AT NORTH FARM Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees...
by McKenzie | Jul 27, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
—after Philip Larkin TO BRING THE HORSE HOME Is all I’ve wanted past wanting since I was six and delirious with fever, an infinitive forged from...
by McKenzie | Jul 18, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
not an elegy for Mike Brown I am sick of writing this poem but bring the boy. his new name his same old body. ordinary, black dead thing. bring him & we will mourn until we forget what we are mourning & isn’t that what being black is about? not...
by McKenzie | Jul 15, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
—in the wake of another tragedy: praying for France THOUGHTS OF A SOLITARY FARMHOUSE And not to feel bad about dying. Not to take it so...
by McKenzie | Jul 14, 2016 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
PURSUIT —for Arctic Explorer Donald B. MacMillan...