Five Poems by A.F. Moritz
Simenon 

The poem had limped, a witness said, as it had run toward the Gare St.-Lazare.  That was enough for Maigret to begin: to trace, track down, finally find the poem, read it with his massiveness still deeper, tenser, quieter, more hidden than the poem’s own.  Enough for him to have seen,  before he found it, the dinge of its life, a resentful dream somewhere, a cheap ren
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The Invocation
Come and say hello, women. The veils are stillthin and we welcome your presence, fourteenplus all the disappeared whom you stand for.As if you were in the prime of life now. As ifyour daughters bloomed full-grown around you.
 

As if your mothers were crying delighted tears.And if you were here to see what has changedand what has not, would you hide your eyes inshame for what has been done
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“Ekphrastic Doubles: A Chapbook”
Image: Marc Chagall: Les Pâques, 1968

Public Reverie is pleased and proud to publish our first digital chapbook, Jennifer Wenn's "Ekphrastic Doubles."

According to the Poetry Foundation, an ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art. Through the imaginative act of narrating and reflecting on the “action”
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Spring in the Sabina
 

Spring in the Sabina
judas trees flowering
magenta remembers

Photo by David Cull
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“Hair,” by Lynn White
 

Hair

The music of my youthstill plays inside my headthe subversive music of the streetsbinding us togetherchallenging the surround sound normout of tune with it.Songs of struggle,rebellion, civil rights,songs of peace and lovesung in a climate of war and hate,the hoped for revolutionthat seemed so closebut didn’t happen.All that is left are the songsand the young bound togetherand s
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Digitization and its Discontents
Image courtesy Washington Post

Is it just me, or is the digital universe getting worse by the day? I find many apps and web services to have become unnecessarily complicated and increasingly frustrating to use. There’s often something that doesn’t work properly, or that is simply very badly designed. There are increasingly paywalls everywhere, an
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An Open Letter to Felicity Huffman
In the third season of Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing, Martin Sheen’s character, the President of the United States of America, remarks that “a kid living in Harlem is more likely to go to jail than a four-year college.”

Felicity Huffman, you recently became a symbol for a culture that assumes that certain children are bound for college, while others are bo
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