Tag: grief poetry

• “If the Stars Were Not Out”

  by Jade Nicole Beals A whispered line overheard in the night as I slept from through the open window that overlooks mostly unpopulated woods: I considered, half-dreaming, The line has been spoken protectively, ‘though I am safe, and I fell back to sleep. I think, in any case, you would still have come. A surgeon […]

  01/24/2023 6:03 am

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• A Poetry Reading: Four Recent Poems I Wrote and Read Aloud

  

  For relaxation and winding down before bed or anytime, or just to listen to poetry spoken, I have read aloud a few prose poems I wrote over the span of a few months. You can listen to me read them, the links show the text of each poem, and the third I’d reread is a […]

  01/20/2023 1:32 pm

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• Pedestrian Bridge Over the Train Tracks in Brčko, Bih by Milica Mijatovic

  PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER THE TRAIN TRACKS IN BRČKO, BIH —By Milica Mijatović I don’t know when the bridge was built, or when the trains stopped running, or which side of the tracks was ours & which theirs, or why they painted the bridge turquoise, or why war is obsessed with lines, or who graffitied one […]

  01/20/2023 1:31 pm

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• “Autumnal”

  October 8, 2022 by Jade Nicole Beals I walk into the bedroom again, I find 4 books neatly placed at the end of the bed where I don’t keep books; I had left them there, 3 library books and 1 is mine, not to lose this 1 in returning it accidentally. Take it, place it […]

  10/08/2022 9:37 pm

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