by McKenzie | Mar 26, 2020 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
ANOTHER ANTIPASTORAL I want to put down what the mountain has awakened. My mouthful of grass. My curious tale. I want to stand still but find myself moved patch by patch.There’s a bleat in my throat. Words fail me here. Can you understand? I sink to my knees...
by McKenzie | Mar 25, 2020 | Poem of the Day Series, Reading
RADIUM GIRL Once the boys were goldfish and all the girls were rings, tossed and bouncing from bowl to bowl. If not for the clink of plastic on glass,we’d never have known the frenzy,how it sorted itself to tinny song. The funhouse mirrors tripped us up, caught...
by McKenzie | Mar 17, 2020 | Blog, Poem of the Day Series, Reading
Happy Tuesday, friends. I hope you enjoyed your day and did something you love today. I mentioned yesterday that I’m diving more deeply back into my reading and writing, including sharing poetry during these uncertain times. On March 9th, the press where I used...
by McKenzie | Mar 16, 2020 | Blog, Poem of the Day Series, Reading
Hi friends! Happy Monday night. I know the world is strange and unpredictable right now, and I know we’re all going through a lot. But I hope you’re doing okay, wherever you are, and you are still finding some joy in your days. Me, I’ve been focusing...
by McKenzie | Apr 1, 2019 | Poem of the Day Series
HYMN TO A LANDLOCKED GOD Perhaps as a child you, too, sawthese stallion clouds & knew a skywith no blue was a sky tooreverent to be overlooked or understood. Perhaps heaven is the moon flag,not the moon, & you came to know praise as vertical only because the...
by McKenzie | Mar 29, 2019 | Poem of the Day Series
A BLESSING Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.And the eyes of those two Indian poniesDarken with kindness.They have come gladly out of the willowsTo welcome my friend and me.We step over the barbed wire into the...
