• I've Been Thinking about Love Again

    Vievee Francis

    Spring 2022

    Those who live to have it and
    those who live to give it.

    Of course there are those for whom both are true,
    but never in the same measure.

    Those who have it to give are
    like cardinals in the snow. So easy
    and beautifully lit. Some
    are rabbits. Hard to see
    except for those who would prey upon them:
    all that softness and quaking and blood.

    Vievee Francis is the author of The Shared World, which is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press; Forest Primeval, winner of the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Award; Horse in the Dark, winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize; and Blue-Tail Fly. She is the recipient of the 2021 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.

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    Aunt B came every week, at the exact same time, into a living room taken over by evening’s shadows. Yet she never relented. She came with a blatant hope, a desperateness, at the dark end of daylight, only to turn around disappointed and sadly make her way back—to once again endure her own life.

    A Tribute to Wyatt Prunty

    A. E. Stallings


    Wait, did I mention thirty—thirty
    Years of the conference going strong,
    Some poets die before that—shirty
    Shelley did not last that long,
    And poor John Keats, who had been flirty
    With Fanny Brawne, and wrote a song
    Or two—throw Byron in the mix
    Who bowed out only thirty-six.

    Pyrite

    Mary Ruefle

    I can really see Christ standing
    in the glass kitchen, having a glass
    of orange juice.

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