Poetry

Opening Day, Eagle River, Alaska

Opening Day, Eagle River, Alaska By Mike McCormick Stepping into the bracing air, I yank on my gloves and stride across snow filled ruts that gleam like fresh baselines in the narrow strip of dirt driveway. Hundreds of red capped birds chatter like anxious fans as I duck into my…

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Spring Training Winter Haven

Our far-flung contributor Jim Provencher in Australia sent us a poem in response to my essay about hometown baseball from a few days ago (“Organized Ball”). Jim spent youthful days in Portland, Maine, playing Babe Ruth League, high school, and American Legion baseball. Here’s what he told us: “It’s weird,…

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Poem About an Apple Tree by Tom Sexton

Our regular contributor Tom Sexton in Alaska has a new poem for our readers, a poem for Spring. Monty Don, host of Gardeners’ World on BBC TV, has this advice on pruning your apple tree: “So through over-zealous and mistimed pruning people often ruin their fruit trees,” he adds. So…

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Ti Jean by David Cappella

Ti Jean By David Cappella I had your visions atop the Medicine Wheel one July afternoon and while driving Rte. 14 through Spotted Horse where I walked past a row of caged coyotes to take a piss. How the American Tao your words captured shined on me one night outside…

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