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...
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 25, 2019 | Poem of the Day Series
HOW I GO TO THE WOODS Ordinarily, I go to the woods alone, with not a singlefriend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable.I don’t really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way...
by McKenzie | Mar 24, 2019 | Blog, Literary Scene
Happy Sunday, reading and writing friends! I’m here to very happily announce my Poem of the Day series, discontinued more than a year ago, will be re-launched, alongside two additional series: my Favorite Fiction Friday Series and the Saturday Spotlight. Poets,...
