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Visitors

by Joan Kane

Joan Kane

Every door stands an open door:
our human settlements all temporary.

We share together the incidental shore
and teach the young to tend the lamp's wick,

weary of anyone small enough to bar our entry.




Quotes of the Day

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

• Oscar Wilde



Poems of the Day
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    Poem Without Metaphor
    by Christine Larusso
    The doctors say there is no specific cause. No genetics to map or trace back. The cancer living in both bodies of my cousin’s two children is spreading. There is no known cure. The chemo doesn’t work. ...