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Category: Featured Poems

Litany in Praise of Italian Cuisine

Annabelle Moseley July 26, 2012 December 28, 2012Featured Poems The Divine Tour 0
"The Divine Tour," poems by Annabelle Moseley

The food I ate in Italy deserves a litany of praise.
An art unto itself, it satisfied so deeply
I expected to rise each morning cured of hunger—
forgetting hunger, like longing, is a ritual.

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The Tuscan Countryside

Annabelle Moseley July 26, 2012 December 28, 2012Featured Poems The Divine Tour 0
"The Divine Tour," poems by Annabelle Moseley

Drive as a passenger through Tuscany,
and even if you squint
or fall asleep, but catch brief glances
through curtained blinks,

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Da Vinci’s Drawing

Annabelle Moseley July 26, 2012 December 28, 2012Featured Poems The Divine Tour 1
"The Divine Tour," poems by Annabelle Moseley

In the Venetian Accademia,
I stood quietly
before a study of flowers—
their bends and curls precise,
examined.

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As We Walk the Land We’ve Tilled along the Coast

Annabelle Moseley July 7, 2012 July 7, 2012Featured Poems The Fish Has Swallowed Earth 0
The Fish Has Swallowed Earth, poems by Annabelle Moseley

You pick lemon basil off the stem— / feed me green beans wet with dew.

In the center of our garden, / there is a fish sculpture of adobe.

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Daphne

Annabelle Moseley July 7, 2012 July 7, 2012Featured Poems The Fish Has Swallowed Earth 0
The Fish Has Swallowed Earth, poems by Annabelle Moseley

I was too aware of my freedom— / the taste of summer in my mouth,
and sun on my nakedness. / I did not recognize that same light
when he rose to meet me. / Or did I? Is that why I ran?

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My Latest Goddess

Annabelle Moseley July 7, 2012 July 7, 2012Featured Poems The Fish Has Swallowed Earth 0
The Fish Has Swallowed Earth, poems by Annabelle Moseley

Today I will be Phragmites, the many-bodied,
pale reeds lifting skyward
from the scalp of Tiana Bay.

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Unearthing Jupiter: A Crown For A Slave

Annabelle Moseley January 11, 2012 May 27, 2013Featured Poems Jupiter Hammon, Lloyd Manor, The Clock of the Long Now 0
Annabelle Moseley's "The Clock of the Long Now" front cover

For giving voice to slavery’s strangled cries,
Just dig for his lost words, stitched in the loam—
Under red roots… between white alibis—
Patterned in clay, the fossils of each poem

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The Sea Cave of My Mother

Annabelle Moseley January 11, 2012 July 8, 2012Featured Poems The Clock of the Long Now 0
Annabelle Moseley's "The Clock of the Long Now" front cover

When I was young, after my father died,
I sometimes longed to burrow down, and sleep
inside my mother’s womb, where I could hide
within my life-source, cradled in the deep—

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The Persistence of Memory

Annabelle Moseley January 10, 2012 January 17, 2012Featured Poems The Clock of the Long Now 0
Annabelle Moseley's "The Clock of the Long Now" front cover

Our house clocks stopped the day my father died—
at three, the very hour that he passed.
No catch of shifting gears, no pulse defied
his absence. Time itself mourned him…

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The First Birth

Annabelle Moseley January 10, 2012 January 17, 2012Featured Poems The Clock of the Long Now 0
Annabelle Moseley's "The Clock of the Long Now" front cover

(I have been born inside him, too.) I am
my mother’s goldfinch, thistle-eater of
her womb. I sing her blood’s music, enjamb
the sounds her heart and breathing made above
my new ears…

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      Sacred Braille: The Rosary as Masterpiece through Art, Poetry, and Reflections

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      A Ship to Hold the World and The Marionette’s Ascent

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      The Divine Tour

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      The Delaney : Journey to Banba

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      The Fish Has Swallowed Earth

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