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Thanks for the twenty seconds of
Your crisp, medicinal perspective,
Encapsulated in a laugh
That shook like a bragging monkey’s ass.
Call it a joke, a gentle nudge—
It pushed me over some good edge,
Literally enlightening:
This cobweb world looks bright again.
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Jack Granath’s poetry has appeared in The Formalist, Measure, and Poetry East among other journals and magazines. He is a library director in Kansas.
Excellent, very emblematic of Anglo Saxon history. I loved how you adapted the alliterative structure. I see lots of thematic…
At the start of the Netflix series "1899" is a poem. Just two stanzas though the poem has three. It…
Very powerful, especially the last four lines of II.
Quite a breathtaking near-capture of a phenomenon that can never be fully captured -- in words or any other art…
Most oaks don't turn yellow -- they just go from green to brown. Some go scarlet briefly. Putting that aside,…
Your slant rhymes are subtle, ghostly, no more than a whisper of some imagined perfect rhymes; and your line of thought presents some unexpected curves. Thank you for skating so close to the edge.