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the commonplace

Poor Poetry - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

Multiform work

Be the first to like this - by Theresa Muñoz

{ Poem }

kicking pine cones down the street
/ climbing the backyard cherry tree
/ lying in new sheets
/ waking in darkness waking to snow
/ how…

The Painter Fabritius Begins Work on the Lost Noli Me Tangere of 1652 - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

I
/
/ This is the myth we chose to do without;
/ and surely the painter imagined the garden he shows
/ as…

Facts about Things - by W. N. Herbert

{ Poem }

Things are tired.
/ Things like to lie down.
/ Things are happiest when,
/ for no reason, they collapse.
/
/ That French plastic bottle, still half-full,
/ that soft-back…

Remainders - by Graham Fulton

{ Poem }

In memory of my cat Fay, 1984-2001
/
/ While scooting about with the hoover gadget
/ a tiny whiteness attracts my eye.
/ I…

Mangles - by Leontia Flynn

{ Poem }

Washboards and mangles are on my father’s mind.
/ In conversation he will return to the soaked linen
/ of his childhood –…

Szuflada - by Julia Fiedorczuk

{ Poem }

Niektórzy kolekcjonuja opilki przeszlosci.
/ Sa bezcenne jak szadz na przydroznych brzozach.
/ Zwlaszcza licza sie nieliczne momenty bezwzglednej przytomnosci umyslu,
/ ekwinokcjum.
/
/ Jej…

5.4 To Mount Victoria - by Ian Wedde

{ Poem }

Late autumn’s good up around
/ The neighbourhood mountain’s misty flank in the morning
/ When the piss-trail of the morning promenade’s fresh
/ And even…

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