"I spent some night or day watching a video over & over. It was not the one of a dog hugging another dog or the one of frogs gathering to watch a video of worms, or the one of a goat head-butting a mirror."

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The slight difference in frequency generates a beat by Tess Liem from OBITS. (2018 Coach House Books) https://chbooks.com/Books/O/Obits

Daily Blessings poems on Tractate Berakhot by Hillel Broder

https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/daily-blessings/

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Not Akhmatova, Poems and Adaptations by Noah Berlatsky

The gods turn people into things
that can still feel and know.
You’ve become me. The well sings
with mute wonder. With sorrow.

https://www.benyehudapress.com/books/not-akhmatova/

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"He’s a long time dead but comfortable with the living, like a benign headmaster or a low church vicar welcoming the knitting circle."

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Welcoming Bone by Oz Hardwick (2022 Inverse Journal) https://www.inversejournal.com/poetry/youll-never-recognise-yourself-again-four-prose-poems-by-oz-hardwick

You'll Never Recognise Yourself Again — Four Prose-Poems by Oz Hardwick | Inverse Journal

Oz Hardwick presents four prose-poems where a poetic archaeology excavates for meaning in spaces meant for display, where dioramas abound, while a poetic gaze retrieves meaning from objects

Inverse Journal

"but the heart, the heart makes its own light
deep in its cavern, wanting to read the love written on the walls
of the body, looking for clues to access this brief world."

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Praise by Chris Banks (2026) https://www.facebook.com/chris.banks.3990/posts/pfbid02vVDKvxq6Rn6iBZAiffpaJtQzkzUDZKB5rQ1aPJzqvtpY2pcaWERYf3HqucvH9AVFl

Chris Banks

New poem.

Hey, did you know April is #NationalPoetryMonth? Did you know Kaleidotrope has published a whole lot of poems?

https://kaleidotrope.net/archives/all-poems/

"Nothing to do
but ascend two stories, effortless upon

emptying myself of all I once had, combed
my glitching interior for an idea with teeth."

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by Jaime Forsythe from Yield (2026 Wolsak and Wynn) https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/yield

"Now, experts disagree.
Were we unhappy or sublime?
We’ll have to wait until the next time
an angel comes rapping at the door
to rejoice docently."

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Honestly, by John Ashbery (2015 Academy of American Poets) https://poets.org/poem/honestly

Honestly,

we could send you out there

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