Yesterday's poem:
It’s About You: on the Beach by June Jordan
divasofverse.com/2020/12/its-ab
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Poem of the day before:
The Idea of Order at Key West by Wallace Stevens
divasofverse.com/2020/12/the-id
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Here's another poem by Jill McDonough:
Dear Gaybashers
divasofverse.com/2020/06/dear-g
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And this beauty:
Accident, Mass. Ave. by Jill McDonough
divasofverse.com/2018/04/accide
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This was the poem of the day seven years ago:
Fit Audience by Marie Ponsot
divasofverse.com/2013/12/fit-au
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This was the poem of the day five years ago:
How to Get Back to Chester by Edward Hirsch
divasofverse.com/2015/12/how-to
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Four years ago:
Sleeping by Raymond Carver
divasofverse.com/2016/12/sleepi
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Three years ago:
Last Photograph of My Mother Laughing by Sasha Pimentel
divasofverse.com/2017/12/last-p
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Two years ago:
I Love You by Jenny George
divasofverse.com/2018/12/i-love
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Last year:
December by Matthew Zapruder
divasofverse.com/2019/12/decemb
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He Fumbles at Your Spirit by Emily Dickinson
divasofverse.com/2014/05/he-fum
Replying to
I know, I know that it's a horrible, infantile cliché... but I still can't resist reciting every Dickinson poem to the tune of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". In this poem it requires pronouncing "ethereal" as eh-theh-RE-al, but otherwise it still works...

