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 | Apr 1, 2019 | Blog, Literary Scene
Happy Monday, reading and writing friends! Happy April 1st! And Happy National Poetry Month! National Poetry Month was first thought up by the Academy of American Poets (or, as many readers think of them, Poets.org, or Poem-A-Day). The idea caught fire, and now it...
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...
by McKenzie | Mar 27, 2019 | Poem of the Day Series
LOST & FOUND LOVE POEM WITH ORANGES & TRASH Seven clementines line the counter.I put the only three still firmin my lunch bag. The segmentsof the four remaining had pulled backfrom the browning rind likethe brain is set back from the skull,where blood collects...
by McKenzie | Mar 26, 2019 | Poem of the Day Series
HARD SEASON Already the spring lilacs are failing, in pieces and chunks, the way rust ruins metal everywhere. It doesn’t take much of that before she begins not to care. Which makes her want to rip the flawed flowers maliciously from the bushes, seeing how wind...
