e c l e c t i c a
p o e t r y
e c l e c t i c a
p o e t r y
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Poems containing the words reach, mind, shade, and back.
Our fog of distance hovering
in a shared absence large as the giant oak tree
Rachel Dacus
All That Angrezi
(Spotlight Runner-Up!)
You turned your nose up at it, till it was rechristened
Himalayan Pink Salt
Kandala Singh
Still we gift them
fur cuffs, masquerade
masks.
Adam Day
houses loomed across big yards
and the globes of great old elms
watched dim and silent
Peter Bridges
a ghost stretching sleep into wake
wails at the ceiling. the walls. the unseen.
Molly Anne Blumhoefer
who wouldn't covet
these berries flying plump
on vines, irresistible
David Sapp
This is not a lost letter to what has been wrought;
who was right and who was wrong and how we
have to work now to find that sky.
Robert Detman
