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Apr
25
National Poetry Month
April 25, 2008 |
I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, and am posting (irregularly) the poems I’m writing daily.
But I wanted to note that Geoffrey Philp has been doing a daily update on Caribbean poets all month long. You can find it here. Today’s is particularly good: Anthony McNeill (Jamaica):Somebody is hanging:
a logwood tree
laden with blossoms
in a deep wood.
The body stirs left
in the wind …
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I thought that was a particularly poignant poem, too.