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Recent Posts
- Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
- 122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
- Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
- Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
- Book Review: LoterÃa Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
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poetry Archive
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122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
“Make it more than bread and wine– / more than unleavened and red / –lace your heart into mine.” -
99 Psaltery & Lyre: Cheryl L. Bruno, “Garden Games”
“Elusive God of the garden, who, / when rain is roaring, winds are high, / delights in the playing of... -
96 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “New Moon”
“Mother, You are new moon / Reveal your glorious face / Give us Mother-knowledge soon . . .” -
95 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “The Lord’s Prayer”
“Thy Kingdom come when it’s time and everything, and not before or after, upon which score we’ll just have to... -
94 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “God Filled the Earth with Tigers”
; ; God Filled the Earth with Tigers God filled the earth with tigers; men and beasts warring for... -
93 Psaltery & Lyre: Jonathon Penny, “God is Great”
“He / Hears and will consider prayers and tears, will / Weigh wildest hope and wilder worry in His palms... -
90 Psaltery & Lyre: John McDermott, “Nothing to Prove”
“Which king brought myrrh to him, / in Bethlehem, how did he know / dull pain would be a gift... -
89 Psaltery & Lyre: Sarah Dunster, “Xenophilia”
“I would bend myself into an / impossible position and look out through my heels, / my head... -
88 Psaltery & Lyre: John McDermott, “Sunday Discount at the Texas Car Wash”
“my daughter is eyeing / the bloody images on the racks of Christian t-shirts, / My God is Tougher than... -
87 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “Upon Attending a Yoga Class with My Husband”
“We’re on the floor moving like elephants, like cows, like our cats, like the very deliberate and slow.” -
86 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “Joseph’s Song”
“I sang it once. Three hours / stacking crates in the belly of a U-Haul truck, / its snout... -
85 Psaltery & Lyre: John McDermott, “The Loaves and the Fishes”
“How many people / have needlessly starved since that show-stopper?” -
84 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “Red Rock”
“I meet an oblong angel with streaming wings, / drawn on rock. Ants trek across his feet.” -
82 Psaltery & Lyre: Kayla Haas, “Winter of 1997, Missouri”
“She stares at marble / eyes, the deer gazing / beyond her maybe seeing Van / Gogh’s Starry Night /... -
80 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “And I Remember He’s My Father”
“I’m Mormon, and as such, long / to scrub babies in sinks, / deliver vegetable casseroles to wakes, / find... -
79 Psaltery & Lyre: Rima VIII de Bécquer, translated by Charles Patterson
“it seems possible to tear myself / from the miserable ground / and float with the golden mist, / in... -
78 Psaltery & Lyre: Deja Earley, “Your Ex-Girlfriends Ruined All the Good Baby Names”
“Forgive the walk in Central Park, / my pitter-pat over prams and kites and tiny shoes / the color of... -
77 Psaltery & Lyre: Christen Mattix, For Longing [Cyanotype Blue]
“your fingerprints stuck / to the tape like mushroom / spores or the dust / of a moth wing.” -
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76 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “Peaceful Blessing”
“I could not pick his speech, and asked / where he had come from. ‘Afghanistan.’ I told /... -
75 Psaltery & Lyre: Becky Sirrine, “An Original Thought”
“Raised religious, / so many words, sentiments, / (buzzphrases, actually) / were programmed into me / little square holes of... -
74 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “Being a High-School Teacher Is a Great Disguise”
“Being a high-school teacher is a great disguise . . . “ -
73 Psaltery & Lyre: Kayla Haas, “I Am Not Vanilla”
“Put me in a ruby red / corset and lace me up like pleather / knee high boots. Measure my... -
72 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “Silences”
“A dog sits silent. Her gaze shafts up / in study of her master’s face; / nostrils twitch and... -
71 Psaltery & Lyre: Kayla Haas, “An Elegy for the Phoebe Caulfield of the South”
“Bring back fireflies in mason jars, / bring your bell curls as blonde / as blonde could be.” -
70 Psaltery & Lyre: Becky Sirrine, “The Martinet”
“Colors are brighter, and the days / are far too short. / People look at me / As if there’s... -
69 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “Amtrak to SAC”
“The next pier is blackened by once living flames. / Then a rusted mount of steampunk in the brackish waters.... -
68 Psaltery & Lyre: M. Brett Gaffney, “Salt Girl”
“Wind / scattered my crystals / to the lands beyond our city. . . .” -
Book Review: Salt
“Each poem in this collection is a little jack-in-the-box, tightly coiled and waiting to spring.” -
67 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “God”
“God / was here this morning while I was out . . . “ -
63 Psaltery & Lyre: Annaliese Wagner, “There are Volcanoes in Iceland”
“They must look like chalices toasted / by tectonic plates, their lava must taste like red wine. / They bubble... -
62 Psaltery & Lyre: Theric Jepson, “Rifflection: ‘To His Mistress Going to Bed’ by John Donne”
“My favorite part is when you take political control and License / my roving hands, and let them go /... -
61 Psaltery & Lyre: Kay Porter, “Mother Mold”
“Palm to palm, / hands clasped in front of unbeating hearts, / they look over their congregation / never quite... -
60 Psaltery & Lyre: Jeremy Windham, “Goliath in Love”
“Summer has never gifted me with love, / the sparkling spell of July’s golden hand / does not know my... -
59 Psaltery & Lyre: James A. Clark, “Elegy for a Stranger”
“God, what a shame / to die so young. Soon after, the rain came. / Fat, angry drops began... -
“Motherhood” in six short words
A few months ago, I was lucky enough to spend three blissful days reading, writing, walking, jogging, eating, and mostly... -
58 Psaltery & Lyre: Annaliese Wagner, “The Pathway to the Sun”
“I am running away / from my new home, / past the blue green / chlorine pool where / the... -
57 Psaltery & Lyre: Elizabeth Pinborough, “The Egret and the Faun”
“Her dress is white, scored with black squares. / There is matter in the pattern. / The pattern matters-“ -
56 Psaltery & Lyre: Jeremy Windham, “Boy Raised Gorgon”
“But if our strengths are measured / with a gaze, observe the statues / our beholders will become, / wide-eyed and... -
55 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “When She Prayed”
“I heard the angels’ joyous song / An ancient temple’s brassy gong / Bagpipes, trombones sang along / When she... -
54 Psaltery & Lyre: James A. Clark, “Succession”
“I used to stand with him / among the budding clover. / I was King of the Park / and... -
Book Review: Her Side of It
In honor of national poetry month (hooray for April!), we will be featuring a poetry book review once a week.... -
53 Psaltery & Lyre: Annaliese Wagner, “Arizona Is Built On Geometry”
“The rectangles and squares of adobe houses / bake under blazing heat. The perpendicular / lines of crucifixes are etched... -
Parenthood Juggle: Depression and Poetry
“I started writing poetry before I had kids and was struggling with infertility. [ . . . ] Poetry became... -
52 Psaltery & Lyre: Dayna Patterson, “There is a certain comfort”
“There is a certain peace / to feel your feet planted / in the place where they will stop /... -
51 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, Two Poems
“She stood short of the ford, / dainty footed, silken kimono / splashed red against the mud and autumn dun.” -
50 Psaltery & Lyre: Ed Snow, “On Hearing ‘God Willing’ by the Dropkick Murphys for the First Time”
“Twelve Irishmen scream / from gastrointestinal pain, / thrash splintered guitars, / race headlong down dark stairs . . .” -
49 Psaltery & Lyre: Michael Hicks, “The Laying On of Hands”
“Tonight, in this chair / you bow your head / as if being crowned, / the tiara of my fingers... -
48 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “The pivot”
“And would I not feel diminished / a little, were that plant to die? ~ / just as I sense... -
47 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “Skull-locked”
“o quiet indweller / can we ever / know if you / be more / than skull-locked?”