by Brad Crump | Feb 20, 2023 | Recent poems
Praise Song for a Plane Tree About the poem...
by Brad Crump | Sep 22, 2022 | Recent poems
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by Brad Crump | Apr 21, 2021 | Recent poems
BEDSIDE VIGILBecause each night when I was pregnant my husband rubbed my aching feet and still does, when I’m grieving or in such pain the feet are the one place I can tolerate touch,because my dad is slipping, lost, afraid, connected to a...
by Brad Crump | Oct 14, 2020 | Recent poems
THE SILENCE OF THE WRENS July 23: six weeks of high summer still to go. A heat dome has simmered us in 110 degrees. When it breaks like a fever, we throw the windows open for the first time in a month. But I sleep inexplicably poorly, restless all night, and finally...
by Brad Crump | Apr 21, 2020 | Recent poems
IN THE DARK After you turn out the light, we liesilent, not touching, face upon our side-by-side pillows like effigiesof gentry on their tombs, as ifwaiting for the Second Coming,as if our devotion and our faithcould save us. The weightof what’s awry between us...