Poetry of the Wild

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University of Missouri, St. Louis Campus

[col grid=”2-1 first”] [/col] [col grid=”2-1″] The Danger of a Warm Breeze in February by Glenn Irwin   The breeze came up from out of the woods, across the creek bed, beneath naked branches, over earth already softening and caught him on the hillside with his back to the sun, and there took advantage of …

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[col grid=”2-1 first”] [/col] [col grid=”2-1″] When All Else Failed by Jennifer Goldring I wanted to be avian, to need to fly in order to eat. I wanted to swoop down, dip the lake and rise; talons full of fish. Slippery with life and slippery with death. I’d love the first thing I grasped I’d …

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University of Missouri, St. Louis North Campus Library

[col grid=”2-1 first”] [/col] [col grid=”2-1″] Isaiah 38:1 by Treasure Sheilds Redmond in 1882 the last colord rump sat here on this capitol floor. now 3 black women come to clean house; droppd from america’s lap, weand on fire, teeth cut on lynch rope. our wheat straw truth can not be denied. thus saith the …

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Phillip Slein Gallery

[col grid=”2-1 first”] [/col] [col grid=”2-1″] The Last Book by Kim Lozano Suppose a bible turns to vapor and condenses on the ear of a man made of black iron, a statue of a soldier of the Great Revelation. The droplets of water fall onto a little plaque that reads, Of This I’m Afraid, beside …

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Centro Modern Furnishing

[col grid=”2-1 first”] [/col] [col grid=”2-1″]  The Stray by Julia Gordon-Bramer I tried to tame the beggar, reign in his tom-cat journeying blindly off the cliff. I tried to bind the boundless, but the wild would rather rattle and stab half a bloody broken leg into the ground than to live a day in a …

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Mystic Arts Center 2

[col grid=”2-1 first”] [/col] [col grid=”2-1″] My Teacher by Lucy Turner   Brown mist around the mountain, Beneath a treasure blue, Jewels sparkling like diamonds, Silver eyelash blading through. A girl that grows her heart out BIG, Watering her future from the seeds sprouting from her head, Picked children from her garden and did what …

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Mystic Arts Center

[col grid=”2-1 first”] [/col] [col grid=”2-1″] Tree as Box by Dan Potter [/col] Poem and poetry box by Dan Potter, sculptor and actor for the Mystic Paper Beasts mask theatre company which he cofounded in 1976, Dan grew up making paintings and sculpture, puppets and masks with his parents, Alice and Fuller Potter, two artists …

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Mystic Seaport

[col grid=”2-1 first”] [/col] [col grid=”2-1″] lost at sea by Joanie DiMartino “Mr. Howland overboard Oars were thrown then and waste boat cleared away… he went down before we could get to him.” –Logbook, 12/1/1881, Charles W. Morgan the beige smooth of driftwood outstretched   as though reaching   still toward fractured waves curling onto a …

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