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Michael Salcman shared a new poem titled The Dog Speaks.

I'm only half-asleep so I know you're standing there
wondering if I'm asleep. Nope.
It's not easy to rest under this table—
for one thing, there's a strong downward slope
...

29 Nov, 13:09

Michael Salcman shared a new poem titled Sitting Shmira.

Outside the morgue on First
and Thirtieth street, a canopy
has been erected next to
three truck loads of mixed body parts.
...

29 Nov, 12:57

Michael Salcman shared a new poem titled September Sonnet.

Auden was right—our buildings grope
the sky for certainty but are dumb
and blind. In the fierce limbus of my eye
the plummeting birds burn still,
...

29 Nov, 12:35

Michael Salcman shared a new poem titled Dr. Williams Delivers A Baby.

Dr. Williams was making his rounds:
one dilapidated house, then another,
powdered oxygen on the aluminum siding,
brown shingles on the roofs.
...

29 Nov, 12:21

Michael Salcman shared a new poem titled The Three Weisses.

Shades and graces come in threes: my cousins in Queens
were aunt and uncle to me,
the first I knew as elderly
rich with sandpapered faces
...

25 Nov, 16:29

Michael Salcman shared a new poem titled From '1944': 6. (The Truck).

From where they were hiding, my Father said
you could see the truck ride out in the morning,
men and shovels packed in its bed, the guards
...

25 Nov, 16:14

Michael Salcman shared a new poem titled Cutting Apples.

My father always carried a penknife
to pare his green apples, raising their skins
in perfect spirals. He never drew blood
slicing his bananas for breakfast,
...

25 Nov, 16:03

Michael Salcman shared a new poem titled The New Man.

They say there's nothing new under the sun
but I found him in the steam room at the gym
today, his skin covered with tattooed snakes,
his left nipple pierced, a pair of birthstones
...

25 Nov, 13:17

Michael Salcman shared a new poem titled The Phone Call.

In the ether streaming
across a continent
an astral girl materializes
...

25 Nov, 13:06

Michael Salcman shared a new poem titled A Lamentation Of Swans.

Like immortal cells growing in a dish
the alien swans multiply beyond our wish
for silent beauty. And the buried day rises as a dream
how to kill the mute swans its theme,
...

25 Nov, 13:00

Michael Salcman

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