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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
a lot of roadkill lately.
one sign of summer’s
approach. dead foxes—
dead birds especially.
and once, on the main road
driving toward blessington,
an otter—an almost
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
The sky streams by overhead, a blue tapestry
dappled with puffs of white, each cloud haloedby the sun’s mild gold. The day is at its half-
way point. Soon, the sky will lose its hold on gold,the b […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 4 months ago
the fancy radio my wife gifted
into my simple pickup
has finally dieddespite all manner of punching and twirling,
little instrument won’t rouse,
nor even static startle, and
the bright digital time s […] -
Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months ago
I gave up early:
and went to a houseboat
to mourn:both named a beer
and splashed next
to woes about your love
in a bunk of redwood
done messy by stinkbugs.your ad […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months ago
Morels
………………….For Tom Proutt
In my latest unsuccessful hunt for the unicorn
of the woods, I found a two-point buck skull,
a square of soapstone, a 1952 Mennen bottle,
and a foxhole. […] -
Fred Wilbur commented on the post, Writing Appalachia by Sharon Ackerman 1 year, 5 months ago
Thanks Sharon, for this thoughtful introduction to the current/recent literature of Appalachia.
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 6 months ago
Sending simultaneous submissions is a fact of a poet’s life whether you practice the strategy or not. How such a maneuver began may be one of those mysteries of history, but it is acceptable to most literary v […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 7 months ago
….1. France. Poppies blooming blood.
Hedged by four sheets strung on wire, my grandparents
spent their wedding night, December 1917:
a New York married-barracks, moans muffled
the night before the men […] -
Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 7 months ago
“Lose something every day. Accept the fluster . . .” (Elizabeth Bishop)
Every once in a while I open
one of too-many, tinyboxes, and there you are,
bright stab of memory: My bra […] -
Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 7 months ago
“An artist is said to be original exactly when he takes up the challenge of tradition and makes us see something more than we already knew.” Demetri Porphyrios. Classical Architecture.
I am a fund […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 8 months ago
It’s wrong to feel lucky
when a poplar blooms.
…………Branches spit out slender pinks below low clouds.In fields here, we find arrowheads.
Ancient whispers on the ridge. One death begs […] -
Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 8 months ago
Vigil
Outside the nurses’ station,
third floor east, twilight spreads
its white canopy over
the busy avenue of bright buildings.
Down the hall, an orderly lofts a pale
sheet over a vacant bed.
In the next […] -
Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 10 months ago
As a very small child I learned language just like all small children. Only in my case there were some mysterious words that took me years to sort out their true meaning. There were words like Amtrak, lugao, Santo […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 10 months ago
A Taxonomy of Lists by Fred Wilbur As a youngster, I watched my father slice out-of-date reports whose 8 1/2 x 11″ sheets had blank back sides; the pivoting knife of the p […]
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Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 10 months ago
Ahab’s Widow
I wait for him as every whaler’s wife.
I write him letters every day.
I tell him how he grows bigger and stronger.I tell him of his first words and of his first walk on his own.
I write, […] -
Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 10 months ago
It was my granddaughter’s fourth birthday party. I, old lady
with cane, was sitting in the shade on the side, then made my way
cautiously to watch the children hit the piñata with a plastic bat […] -
Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 10 months ago
Antonyms for “Affluence”
It is a myth that mice
are impossible to eat.I see my tuxedo
on another man,a groom or musician.
It is a myththat the bride will be thinking
about Queen Vic […] -
Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 11 months ago
Sara Biel has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2021 Poetry Contest
I Want to Give Him a Chance
Her voice is thin, scrapes and rolls, a dry leaf across the sidewalk.
My fingers grip the phone, […] -
Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 11 months ago
Nate Jacob has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2021 Poetry Contest
Mourning Doves
Looking back, the choice seems obvious.
A man is given the chance in life
to select from a pantheon of […] -
Fred Wilbur wrote a new post 1 year, 11 months ago
Elizabeth Nowak has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2021 Poetry Contest
Dear Mi-Kwon
Before the whole world went mad,
you wrote to ask about my life
in beautiful America. I could not then […] - Load More