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Epithalamium
Recorded for Poem-a-Day, August 18, 2017.
Epithalamium
Here you go
light low and long
in the fields
at sunset and sunrise
Everything twice
a doubled existence
two nows
two thens
two names
yours and the other one
also yours
folded into a paper boat
the points of which
constellate stars
previous poems
date |
title | author |
|---|---|---|
| August 17, 2017 | Late Summer | James Brasfield |
| August 16, 2017 | Ancient Sunlight | Amy King |
| August 15, 2017 | Afterlife | Natalie Eilbert |
| August 14, 2017 | In Defense of “Candelabra with Heads” | Nicole Sealey |
| August 13, 2017 | A Lazy Day | Paul Laurence Dunbar |
| August 12, 2017 | Vivien’s Song | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| August 11, 2017 | FaceTime | Clint Smith |
| August 10, 2017 | Pomology | Kim Roberts |
| August 09, 2017 | Carillon | Wayne Miller |
| August 08, 2017 | Rose of Jericho | Cindy Veach |
