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  1. If there is a lazy wood here layered around these more red than green glimpses into my clouded falling, I haven’t ... bit.ly/KRoyCj
  2. With color, it seems / to bleed the blame from its ends / of days. It’s blameless. bit.ly/JzcnaN
  3. This pigeon, otherwise / gray, has a fluorescent green / on its neck, as pretty / as any humming. bit.ly/JK2DLV
  4. We make frequent stops/ along our way / the different ways / each of us has to go,/ and even those few with the same... bit.ly/cWqCAu
  5. For you, / I could slay / a mountain's doubt / (thinking it's a hill). / I could move / a dragon to fire-dousing ... bit.ly/KsX3Nl
  6. Peril, with its cruelest mouth bleeding us / dry, lacks the doubt of our dead hands mixing / deader memories. ... bit.ly/KknNj0
  7. National Poetry Month is still going strong, and today I give some deserved props to the collaborative blog Flashing By bit.ly/I9nSe3
  8. The beauty of it is / none of this, / and all of its / beauty, not the triumphant blue ... bit.ly/IpQG0z #themostbeautifulthing
  9. Fiona Robyn's "The Most Beautiful Thing" - a five-star-reviewed novel - is free on Kindle today: bit.ly/GGzkMe
  10. The Earth Thanks Me a new poem by Jill Dumser bit.ly/IkkJGb
  11. National Poetry Month continues, and I've done another Couplets Interview with poet Iris Jamahl Dunkle ... check it out bit.ly/JqzcUd
  12. For National Poetry Month: Beauty Shifts a poem by Jill Dumser | "Whips of light spiral madly through her thought..." bit.ly/JnuGEO
  13. They are. What are we becoming?/ It’s rote, I know. It’s rote./ It all bares my repeating. He wrote,/ tho not to me... bit.ly/I0BcSF
  14. Check out @upperrubberboot and meet all the fine poets participating in the Couplets multi-author poetry blog tour. bit.ly/J4sUYO
  15. For National Poetry month, an interview w/ poet Wendy Brown-Baez as part of the Couplets multi-author poetry blog tour bit.ly/HVZKwc
  16. An iguana hides in your folds/ of phantom gray,/ & from this patterned gray/ it doesn’t look away, it/ doesn’t look... bit.ly/HNhx2Q
  17. The orange it burns / is small and yellow, sometimes, / and the blob-shape it follows / does rhyme with it, at all bit.ly/Jpg2aQ
  18. Oh the faces you'll know when you walk thru the wood you wouldn't or couldn't have known but the felled felt you should bit.ly/Izs4mA
  19. From down here, it feels there's nothing there, but when you're in it up there, lit bright blue or a shadowed navy ... bit.ly/I6q69R