• Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us

    Carl Phillips

    Spring 2019

    A water-meadow is not a flood-meadow.

    A working meadow’s not a fallow field.

    Carl Phillips’s new book, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, will be out from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2020. Sibling Rivalry Press will publish his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures, this fall.

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    Moishe's Horse

    Donald Hall

    When the ragpicker’s weary
    Arthritic carthorse Mary

    Caught a chestcold and died,
    His sons and daughters cried

    All night, at first for love,
    And later for dread . . .

    Velocities

    Ryan Wilson

    The spry young sprinter
    I once was left me behind
    For good this winter Morning on my jog . . .

    Notes on the Interregnum

    Lorrie Moore

    But too often social media, especially Twitter with its limited space, is a blurt forum for malevolent pith. It is flypaper full of flies and failed, dyspeptic haiku. Irony is lost. Nuance is lost. And so then is literacy. It fills up with Trump: Trump love and also the Trump hate that loves itself more than it hates Trump, since unfortunately it requires Trump for its various feelings of aliveness.

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