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By Bill Castanier on September 26, 2016
Birthday How was it the day my mother entered the world,
the third daughter of a mother whose husband
drowned a few months earlier? Was there joy
in the room, or some blue note of grief?
Did she resemble the lost father, her eyes
the blue of the lake that took him?
Was it a year when March went out
like a […]
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By Bill Castanier on April 30, 2015
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By Bill Castanier on April 29, 2015
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By Bill Castanier on April 29, 2015
A poem by a World War II veteran describes the tedium of behind the lines
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By Bill Castanier on April 27, 2015
Death is a decidedly different place
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By Bill Castanier on April 26, 2015
Poetry Anishinaabemowin and English
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By Bill Castanier on April 23, 2015
John Wilkes Booth put his hand to poetry before his death
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By Bill Castanier on April 22, 2015
WISCONSIN, 1929 Lake Michigan What he knew of death was a brood mare in a barn stall heaving quietly in the dark – contraction and silence. When the canvas on the lifeboats hummed in the wind and lanterns slammed against bulkheads and fire-grate doors swung on their hinges, he heard music and felt, only, the […]
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