Mastodawn

Her lips colored at its touch

Popsicle
Jennifer L. Freed

#Poetry #JenniferLFreed #Popsicle #Mother #OneArtPoetry

https://oneartpoetry.com/2026/04/13/popsicle-by-jennifer-l-freed/

Popsicle by Jennifer L. Freed

Popsicle When my mother in her hospital bed began moving, mumbling, when it seemed she might live after all, the nurses reattached her tubes and lines, and the doctors returned, gave orders, made n…

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Andrew Shields Apr 6

the fellowship song offers

Someone Saved My Life
Magin LaSov Gregg

#Poetry #MaginLaSovGregg #OneArtPoetry #SomeoneSavedMyLifeTonight #Music #EltonJohn #FlyAway #Maryland #Mississippi #Virginia #Georgis #Alabama #RoadTrip #Jesus #GasStation #Singing #Jackson #Easter

https://oneartpoetry.com/2026/04/05/someone-saved-my-life-by-magin-lasov-gregg/

Someone Saved My Life by Magin LaSov Gregg

Someone Saved My Life Nightfall, Cori and I drove from Maryland to Mississippi, listening the whole way to Elton John, past yawning Virginia farmland & Georgia’s red clay hills headlong into Al…

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Andrew Shields Mar 31

I became a leopard

At Home in the Body
Robbi Nester

#Poetry #RobbiNester #Body #Leopard #BellyDancing #Cousin #OneArtPoetry #Muscles

https://oneartpoetry.com/2026/03/30/at-home-in-the-body-by-robbi-nester/

At Home in the Body by Robbi Nester

At Home in the Body My cousin is a dancer, while I have always lived too much in my mind. When I visited, she dragged me to a belly-dancing lesson. In the dim light, women in clouds of scented oil …

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Andrew Shields Feb 28

Charlie tumbles up to the sky

Belief
Frank Gaughan

#Poetry #FrankGaughan #Belief #OneArtPoetry #CharlieBrown #Lucy #Peanuts #Football

https://oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/27/belief-by-frank-gaughan/

Belief by Frank Gaughan

Belief We must believe that Lucy wants to hold the football for Charlie. To think otherwise suggests cruelty, and Lucy is not cruel. She offers psychiatric help for five cents. Charlie knows there …

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Andrew Shields Feb 28

stumbling into drunkenness

Scapegrace
Alison Hurwitz

#Poetry #AlisonHurwitz #Scapegrace #OneArtPoetry #Blunders #Mistakes

https://oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/23/scapegrace-by-alison-hurwitz/

Scapegrace by Alison Hurwitz

Scapegrace My son does not want Anne of Green Gables to make any more mistakes. First, a blunder sends her best friend stumbling into drunkenness— the raspberry cordial which was really currant win…

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Andrew Shields Feb 15

Falling helplessly into eternity

What You Were Saying
George Franklin

#Poetry #GeorgeFranklin #OneArtPoetry #TheEndOfTheWorld #Love #Dog #Borges #ThomasHardy

https://oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/14/what-you-were-saying-by-george-franklin/

What You Were Saying by George Franklin

What You Were Saying If the world should end while we are on one of our walks, I won’t complain or use my last minutes to imagine All the places we could have traveled or all the things I wanted us…

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Andrew Shields Feb 14

the pink roses, white / lilies, purple and yellow mums, the red-striped // carnations

Apology Flowers
Jessica D. Thompson

#Poetry #JessicaDThompson #ApologyFlowers #Apology #Flowers #Argument #Roses #Chrysanthemums #Carnations #Raccoons #Bouquet #Vase #OneArtPoetry

https://oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/13/apology-flowers-by-jessica-d-thompson/

Apology Flowers by Jessica D. Thompson

Apology Flowers After an argument, he buys her a grocery store bouquet. Two weeks later, she tears apart his apology flowers—the pink roses, white lilies, purple and yellow mums, the red-striped ca…

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Andrew Shields Feb 11

A mother and son listen to “Stayin’ Alive” in a poem by Evan Leslie. #Poetry #EvanLeslie #StayinAlive #TheBeeGees #SaturdayNightFever #LP #Magnavox #Memory #Secrets #Music #Disco #Dancing #OneArtPoetry https://111-words.ghost.io/a-mother-and-son-listen-to-stayin-alive-in-a-poem-by-evan-leslie/

A mother and son listen to “Stayin’ Alive” in a poem by Evan Leslie

In Evan Leslie's poem "We Play 'Stayin’ Alive'", a son goes through his late father's things with his mother and comes across a copy of the 1977 "Saturday Night Fever" LP. They put it on "his old beloved, / big, wood-finished Magnavox" and hear how "that Saturday Night Fever bass starts

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Andrew Shields Feb 11

And the stereo, the pills, the wheelchair, the books

We Play “Stayin’ Alive”
Evan Leslie

#Poetry #EvanLeslie #StayinAlive #BeeGees #Music #Aging #SaturdayNightFever #Magnavox #Golf #Father #Mother #HiHat #OneArtPoetry

https://oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/10/we-play-stayin-alive-by-evan-leslie/

WE PLAY “STAYIN’ ALIVE” by Evan Leslie

WE PLAY “STAYIN’ ALIVE” and learn howling and crackle are common to both the sounds of longing and the sounds of losing – like fire snaps, like this needle-kissed hiss that warms …

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Andrew Shields Feb 6

stab, scoop, lift, hurl

Winter 2026
Marjorie Maddox

#Poetry #MarjorieMaddox #OneArtPoetry #Winter2026 #Winter #Snow #ICE #UnitedStates

https://oneartpoetry.com/2026/02/06/winter-2026-by-marjorie-maddox/

Winter 2026 by Marjorie Maddox

Winter 2026 The snow. All morning I’ve been shoveling it: stab, scoop, lift, hurl, almost the same motion as digging a plot deep and wide enough for a country, but not quite, almost strenuous enoug…

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