#poem-locker

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Still now, small morsels of you on my tongue.

Eugenia Leigh, last line to Sustenance

from here – thank you, poem-locker (transubstantiated since December 2015)

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A finger to her lips the pause of night.

Molly Peacock, final lines to Of night

from here – thank you, poem-locker (in the dark since December 2015)

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Rain that we know will go on long after we too dissolve into figures of stone, row upon row, a city of rain.

Alvin Pang, final stanza to Rain

from here – thank you, poem-locker (dissolved since December 2015)

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You always longed for longing more than anything else.

Lyn Lifshin, final lines to Last night was less dark than dreams were

from here – thank, poem-locker (longing since December 2015)

[contremineur]

And left unsaid some things he should have spoken, about the heart, where it hurt exactly, and how often.

Simon Armitage, final stanza to To his lost lover

from here – thank you, poem-locker (unspoken since December 2015)

[contremineur]

Both, though, would have marveled at the little book a convict in one of Stalin’s gulags made to hold Akhmatova poems he had by heart, a fascicle bound with twine, the pages’ coarse paper somehow glued to birchbark. The twenty-first. Night. Monday. the first one starts.

Judith Hemschemeyer, final lines to Or just miss

from here – thank you, poem-locker (locked away since December 2015)

[contremineur]

At dawn the officers ride back to the garrison, one without a glove, the entire last chapter about a necklace that couldn’t be worn inherited by a great-niece along with the love letters bound in silk.

Dean Young, final lines to Changing genres

from here – thank you, poem-locker (galloping away since December 2015)

[contremineur]

Remind me: my bed is empty, my graying hair pinned up and tumbling from a starfish clip where once a waterfall by Crivelli flowed over the white shoulders of Sparta.

Melissa Green, opening lines to Leda, later

from here – thank, poem-locker (ageing gracefully since December 2015)