Florida An Airedale rolling through green frost,cabbage palms pointing their accusing leavesat whom, petulant...
Deborah Ager
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Deborah Ager is an American poet, essayist, and editor, who founded the international literary magazine 32 Poems in 2003. She has published three books of poetry and co-edited two anthologies of contemporary poetry. She also works as a nonfiction book coach and editor, helping leaders and experts share their ideas and stories with the world. |
The city is closing for the night.Stores draw their blinds one by one,and it’s...
When I knew, it was raining.Winter in decline. I was tired.You in your soaked...
Rain drenches the patio stones.All night was spent waitingfor an earthquake, and instead water...
Nimbus clouds erasing stars above Lamoni.Jaundiced lights. Silos. Loose dogs. Cowswhose stench infuses the...
They tell me that your hearthas been found in Iowa,pumping along Interstate 35.Do you...
The yard half a yard,half a lake blue as a corpse.The lake will tell...
You know how it is wakingfrom a dream certain you can flyand that someone,...
Over the fence, the dead settle infor a journey. Nine o’clock.You are alone for...
Lamoni, Iowa The factory siren tells workers time to go hometells them the evening...