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Go catch a bird

Posted Week 34 by Joa · 1 Comment

As promised, a new poem is up on the Slice magazine site. Have a look!

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Eatin’ Earths Again

Posted Week 33 by Joa · No Comments

“Earth Eaters” is getting its time in the sun; it’s up on the Slice magazine blog now with a cool picture! I should have a new poem up next week.

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Suggesting a Cloud

Posted Week 30 by Joa · No Comments

A new sunset-y poem up on the Slice blog today. Click the link to check it out or read it below!
Suggesting a Cloud
Soak the day
until its soft colors
drain and only
an outline
of all we did
remains—a memory
new enough
we still see it
the same—a vague shape
against the sun
that evening
carries away.

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Issue 9 of Monday Night available now!

Posted Week 28 by Joa · 2 Comments

Issue 9 of the literary journal Monday Night is available now…and I’m in it! Check out the link to view my two poems live online or, if you’re in the mood for the real deal, purchase a copy of the magazine for $3 from the site (what a lovely, lively squid on the cover!).

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Slice

Posted Week 28 by Joa · 2 Comments

Hi everybody. Guess what? I’m now a poet-in-residence for the literary blog, Slice. Yeah! It’s all thanks to Alex, who invited me to submit. Thank you Alex! A new poem of mine will be featured on the blog every couple of weeks, starting with “Heart Swell” this week. I’m so excited!! I think I can […]

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Heart Swell

Posted Week 22 by Joa · 2 Comments

We saw the way
you let love in,
the little door
you opened
when the light
began to change—
and night pressed
cool against your face.
When your heart
began to swell
the way the moon will
just before rain
we saw the wide world
in your eyes again,
that wild joy
love sometimes brings.

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snail haiku

Posted Week 14 by David · No Comments

An apology
to the snail
I have crushed underfoot
- reprinted from the 2002 issue of Into the Teeth of the Wind

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fish haiku

Posted Week 14 by David · No Comments

From out of the lake
a fish leaps into Fisherman’s throat:
True story 
- reprinted from the 2002 issue of Into the Teeth of the Wind

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Our Other Lives

Posted Week 13 by Joa · 1 Comment

In our other lives
we live
where daylight
tangles in the trees
and the sea breathes inland
and we fall
heartfirst
into green dreams.

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Sneak Back Ridge

Posted Week 10 by Joa · No Comments

When the last light
of sunset
outlines our trees,
I’ll knot the violet
of evening
in your eyes.
We’ll crush
stars on the walk
to your car,
night ripe,
blue-black
as tires.

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