What Lasts: A Poetry Sampler
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What lasts? We were inspired to look for answers after reading Bill Brown’s poem that poses that question. “Moments stay with us,” Brown writes, and like many of the poems featured here, Brown’s poem is full of specific lasting moments, what Brown names as “what the soul ate.” Some of the poets featured here consider more tangible things than memory: streams, stars, night sounds, dog graves (“we recognize those dark mounds, / the bag of lime, sometimes still leaning against the shed”); other poems consider more tangible feelings: regret, loneliness, grief. Perhaps you’ll be inspired to capture your own thoughts about longevity and permanence. What did your soul eat today?
~Marianne Worthington, poetry editor
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Bill Brown
What Lasts
Carol Grametbauer
Once, in July
D. A. Gray
Lime
Connie Jordan Green
The Color of Comfort
Pamela Gibbs Hirschler
When It's Late
Sonja Johanson
This Was the Hops Field
Wondering at Himself
Matt Prater
We Do Not Say The Candle Is Put Out
Jessica D. Thompson
Sitting with the Dead
©Jackie White Rogers; used with permission