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December 2024 Poetry Feature #2: New Work from our Contributors

New work by LEAH FLAX BARBERROBERT CORDING, PETER FILKINS

 

Table of Contents:

  • Robert Cording, “In Beaufort”
  • Leah Flax Barber, “School Poem” and “Cordelia’s No”
  • Peter Filkins, “Trains”

 

In Beaufort
By Robert Cording

At a rented air B&B, I am sitting on a swing
placed here just for me it seems,
or just to carry off my worries and sorrows
as I rock slowly, back and forth, taking in
the shifting colors of the Broad River that circles
this marsh pocketed with cut-outs of water
and long inlets that circle round and round
as if it were one of those spiritual labyrinths
that bring calm as the center is reached.

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December 2024 Poetry Feature #1: New Work from our Contributors

Works by JEN JABAILY-BLACKBURN and DIANA KEREN LEE

Table of Contents:

  • Jen Jabaily-Blackburn: “Archeological, Atlantic” and “Velvel”
  • Diana Keren Lee: “Living Together” and “Living Alone”

 

Archaeological, Atlantic
By Jen Jabaily-Blackburn

A morsel of conventional wisdom: Never use the word
      boring in a poem because then they
can call your poem boring. The boring sponge can’t
      do everything, but can make holes in oysters, & for the boring sponge, it’s
enough. I miss boring things like gathering mussel shells
      for no one. I miss being so bored that time felt physical, an un-
governable cat sleeping over my heart. I have, I’m told, an archaeologist’s
      heart. I have, I’m told, an archaeologist’s soul. An archaeologist’s eye, so

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