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“Anchorage Oil Town Villanelle” published in Cirque

By Mel Green | Published: Tue, 22 June 2010
Cirque is a literary journal for the North Pacific Rim edited by Anchorage poet Mike Burwell. My poem "Anchorage Oil Town Villanelle" is published in the Summer Solstice 2010 issue, which came out yesterday.
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Metsän henki

By Mel Green | Published: Fri, 30 April 2010
"She stands outside & in me, / a flicker beckoning / at the inmost limit of vision / where the blind spot is insufficiency / of self-knowing." A poem in celebration of National Poetry Month.
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You are old, Father William: Two renditions

By Mel Green | Published: Wed, 7 April 2010
“You are old, Father William”, the young man said, / And your hair has become very white; / And yet you incessantly stand on your head -- Do you think, at your age, it is right?” In celebration of National Poetry Month.
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“Disabled” by Wilfred Owen

By Mel Green | Published: Tue, 6 April 2010
'He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark, / And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey, / Legless, sewn short at elbow...." In celebration of National Poetry Month.
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“Emergency Haying” by Hayden Carruth

By Mel Green | Published: Mon, 5 April 2010
'And I stand up high / on the wagon tongue in my whole bones to say // woe to you, watch out / you sons of bitches who would drive men and women / to the fields where they can only die.' In celebration of National Poetry Month.
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Mass Extinctions

By Mel Green | Published: Sun, 4 April 2010
'A rip in the sky, a roar: / impact of a meteor -- / shroud of iridium dust / on the dusk of Dinosaur.' Two dinosaur poems in celebration of National Poetry Month.
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Stone Poem

By Mel Green | Published: Sat, 3 April 2010
'We rocks, we trees will give rise to new words / when you are gone to dust and scattered shards.' In celebration of National Poetry Month.
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The Mountain

By Mel Green | Published: Fri, 2 April 2010
Spine of the land thrust up / by the grinding of continents, you signify / the might of the planet. You glow like a lamp in the arctic summer. / Even in winter night do you shine. / You are never dark.' In celebration of National Poetry Month.
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“Inversnaid” by Gerard Manley Hopkins

By Mel Green | Published: Thu, 1 April 2010
'What would the world be, once bereft / Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, / O let them be left, wildness and wet; / Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.' In celebration of National Poetry Month.
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Alaska Love Poem

By Mel Green | Published: Sun, 14 February 2010
In 1984, during my troubled early twenties, I fell in love with a friend of mine. This poem was written to her. But it's especially a poem about how I came to love myself, & to give up my former self-hatred.
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