
Rain is in the forecast though never in mine. That’s why it’s strapped to my wrist and not my heart.Īnd the clouds are thickening, grow darker. Three choices… no make that ten thousand.Ī day when such eccentricities are allowed. My thoughts are busy, speedy, like interstates.Ī seventy year old jogger with leg veins like bones. The sun is returning the blood to my cheeks. He is the author of several books including Invisible (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by Five Oaks Press) The Porch Poems (Deerbrook Editions, 2020 Shelf Unbound Notable Indie Book) Piano Music (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by Serving House Books) Selected Poems 2002-2021 (nominated for the National Book Award by Serving House Books) and The Lost Notebook of Zhao Li (Dos Madres Press, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize).Īpril showers are turned off at the faucet.
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Solonche has published poetry in more than 500 magazines, journals, and anthologies since the early 70s, including The New Criterion, The New York Times, The Threepenny Review, The American Scholar, The Progressive, Poetry Northwest, Salmagundi, The Literary Review, The Sun, The American Journal of Poetry, Poet Lore, Poetry East, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and Free Verse. Professor Emeritus of English at SUNY Orange, J.R. More than this pale imitation of imitation. I will have a feeling about if I stand out here long enough. It will not be the whistling truth of the red tailsĪcross the lake, although it will also be that. It will not be the clear cold truth of the air, It will not be the blue truth of the sky, Some great truth will make itself known to me. I have the feeling that if I stand out here The red tails are whistling across the lake. Published in the journals “Dzvin”, “Ring A”, “Polutona”, “Rechport”, “Topos”, “Articulation”, “Formaslov”, “Colon”, “Literature Factory”, “Literary Chernihiv”, Tipton Poetry Journal, Stone Poetry Journal, Divot journal, dyst journal, Superpresent Magazine, Allegro Poetry Magazine, Alternate Route, Better Than Starbucks Poetry & Fiction Journal, Littoral Press, Book of Matches, on the portals “Literary Center” and “Soloneba”, in the “Ukrainian literary newspaper”, Ice Floe Press.” Winner of the international competition «Art Against Drugs», bronze medalist of the festival Chestnut House, laureate of the literary competition named after Tyutyunnik. Mykyta Ryzhykh writes, “I’m from Ukraine. We were born in the foliage of whitman grass What can the human soul compare to a bird? We are in eternal night in a dispute with God and Lucifer In the black box of the plane is stored the black night of the soul
