Villanelle with a Refrain from the Wall Street Journal
Listen the poet read this poem aloud.… More »
Listen the poet read this poem aloud.… More »
Ribbons, pearl and purple, dangle from the maypole down to the pale hands of children, who pull them, giggling. They purl in breezes, and almost rumple. Under the old eyes of a principal whose narrow glance is ample to subdue but not appall, the children spill around the skinned and limbless maple as if outside the temple of a declining god of simple rituals easily met. Bells peal. Old tunes impose their spell on the awkward small feet…… More »
Andrew Hudgins's most recent book of poems is Ecstatic in the Poison (2003). He teaches at Ohio State University. poetry, atlantic, trees, storm 56 … More »
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