Uni-Verse
UNI-VERSE
Richard Cory
By Edwin Arlington Robinson on April 03, 2011, at 8:57 p.m.
The Web address for viewing Uni-Verse poems online has changed temporarily while the BDN’s website is reconfigured. To see this and other recent Uni-Verse poems in their proper formats, go to www.dwildepress.net/uni-verse. Whenever Richard Cory went downtown, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a ...
UNI-VERSE
Island
By Michael L. King on Feb. 20, 2011, at 3:31 p.m.
The Web address for viewing Uni-Verse poems online has changed temporarily while the BDN’s website is reconfigured. To see this and other recent Uni-Verse poems in their proper formats, go to www.dwildepress.net/uni-verse. I can’t drown yet: Millay returned to shore from seaweed she hoped was an island. My intended ...
UNI-VERSE
A Winter Poem
By Ellen Richards, with help from William Shakespeare on Feb. 06, 2011, at 5:24 p.m.
When icicles hang by the wall, When boots stand salted by the door, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, I practice Mozart hopefully, And Tom bears logs into the hall, I turn the heat up more and more, And milk comes frozen home in pail, I light a burner, ...
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By Bruce Holsapple on Jan. 30, 2011, at 5:17 p.m.
The power goes at 6 p.m. woodstove just heating up get out candles, see if the phone works— need to save water, keep the refrigerator closed but we’re fine otherwise can find my way around five radiant flames on the desk sort of enjoy this threshold the varied perspectives reached, ...
Rilke and a New Ignition
Unscrew the locking cap / the mechanic said
He Wanted to Tell Us
Once upon a place, at a school up the Penobscot, a professor of words and all that can be made believed in his students the way he believed in seeds and soil …
Joker
I’m the god of misplaced confidence
Purveyor of false competence
I whisper to assure sky divers
I give courage to rock climbers
I build philosophies on lies
And trick the honest …
Stars
By D.W. Brainerd on Jan. 02, 2011, at 6:02 p.m.
What are these, then,
steel pins, their points
shoved through black felt,
and glowing whiter as if
they might be hot enough
to melt the ice and snow
that covers all the …
On Speaking
By Carolyn Locke on Dec. 27, 2010, at 11:10 a.m.
There are days when all that can be said
is that people are separate,
Nocturne: Great Spruce Head Island
By Kristen Lindquist on Dec. 19, 2010, at 7:20 p.m.
The wind wakes me. It howls through the house,bangs windows against their hooks.
Moose on the Road to Jackman
Snow is falling on the way to Jackman, Maine,
high in the mountains, where terrain is stark.
A moose, covered in white, lies in the road,
drawing heat from the friction of tires.
The …
Dispossessed
By Gerald George on Dec. 05, 2010, at 6:34 p.m.
He lost his home by the sea
when he couldn’t pay the tax.
He had to move inland
and he took along his axe.
And every stick he chopped
to stoke his shack’s wood stove,
he saw as …
After school in the fall
By Robert L. Keniston on Nov. 21, 2010, at 9:55 p.m.
After school in the fall
was usually a
pickling fragrance time.
Ghosts 08
By H.R. Coursen on Nov. 14, 2010, at 6:31 p.m.
The hill rises, as smooth and rounded
stones shoulder, headless, on the grass.
Workers pause, as a caisson rumbles past,
and pause again, as somewhere taps is sounded,
returning from the …
11/11/11/86
By Henry D.M. Sherrerd Jr. on Nov. 07, 2010, at 6:38 p.m.
Drums red drums blue drums goldSparks of color in the snow far aheadAt the crown of the bridge in the coldGray sky black water thudding choppersStamping feet mark time …
Sonnet vii
By Paul Hughes McBreairty on Oct. 30, 2010, at 7:39 p.m.
We hate in others what we hate within;We need not guess the sins of swaggerts pure;Before exposed they preach their filthy sinOf perfect spiritual pride inured.How do academics prove lofty worth …
Rosemary
By Thomas Moore on Oct. 24, 2010, at 6:28 p.m.
The dozen rosemary tips I cut and rooted in the fall grew in my study window.
Population 4,672
By Baron Wormser on Oct. 18, 2010, at 9:18 a.m.
We gazed out the oversize, picture window
One gray, forlorn, late autumn afternoon
To see most of the usually pacific mill town
Parading down the two blocks of Main Street.
The Alchemy of Goldenrod
By D.W. Brainerd on Oct. 11, 2010, at 6:17 p.m.
Like all that grows from root to shoot,
It spends the spring in leafing green,
Till midyear, when the great change starts,
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American Lung Association retires number of cyclist killed in Trek Across Maine
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Midcoast multibajillionaire knows what her husband is doing before he does it
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