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...
by Brad Crump | Apr 13, 2020 | Recent poems
1. Into our bedroom’s dark funk, before dawn,For the first time in months, drift fragments of song.A robin—just back—on the garage roofThreads this northern silence with notes.Freezing drizzle, gray pall, the lawn piebald with snow–But he’s giving thanks. His...