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Today's poem is "Scar"

from Crab Orchard Review

Bruce Bond's most recent books include Radiography, The Throats of Narcissus, Cinder, and Blind Rain (forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press). His second book, The Anteroom of Paradise, was just republished in a revised edition. Presently he is a professor at University of North Texas and poetry editor for American Literary Review.

All the poems by Bruce Bond that have appeared on Verse Daily:
May 8, 2008:   "Will" "To the locusts that blur the lyres of their shells..."
April 16, 2008:   "Elegy for Tim Buckley" "Scat singing for the sleep deprived..."
July 8, 2007:   "Confessions of a Music Box" " No larger than a bird coffin..."
August 25, 2006:   "Black Iris" " Dear guitar, my Cyclops, my raft..."
August 14, 2006:   "Planetarium" " As the mobile of planets wheeled over my crib..."
April 18, 2004:  "The Ghost of Weather" "My father takes smaller steps..."
March 30, 2004:  "Rehearsals for the New Order" "The courthouse is empty now ablaze..."
October 12, 2002:  "The Chimneys" "After the fire the monoliths of brick..."
July 23, 2002:  "Mercy" "Dear happiness, forgive me..."

Books by Bruce Bond: Blind Rain, The Anteroom of Paradise, Cinder, The Throats of Narcissus, Independence Days, The possible, Radiography,

Other poems on the web by Bruce Bond:
"Thelonious Sphere Monk"
"Cruor Dei"
"The Invention of Song"

About Crab Orchard Review:

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Editor & Poetry Editor: Allison Joseph

Other poems from Crab Orchard Review in Verse Daily:
October 2, 2007:   "The Bar Code of Love" by Erika Meitner
October 1, 2007:   "This Song is Made of Ideas" by Elizabeth Langemak
August 12, 2007:   "Jellies" by Sara Talpos
August 8, 2007:   "Home" by Richard Newman
January 19, 2007:   "Temporary Sanity" by Rane Arroyo
May 12, 2006:   "Ontology of the Miniature Room" by Rebecca Dunham
May 10, 2006:   "Language Mixology" by Adrian Matejka
May 8, 2006:   "Cow Song" by Susan B.A. Somers-Willett
December 4, 2005:   "Rain for Days" by Diane Holland
December 3, 2005:   "Heavy Breather Zoo" Jeffrey McDaniel
December 2, 2005:   "Under The Eaves" Fleda Brown
July 10, 2005:   "The New Retina" by Christina Pugh
July 6, 2005:   "Goldfinch After Rain" Elizabeth Harvell
September 19, 2004:  "The Visitors" by Sylvia Curbelo
April 18, 2004:  "The Ghost of Weather" by Bruce Bond
April 2, 2004:  "Oh! On an April Morning" by Neil Shepard
March 31, 2004:  "Interior Lighting" by Elton Glaser
July 5, 2003:  "King Sugar" by Lorna Knowles Blake
July 3, 2003:  "A Simple Campsong" by Lucia Perillo
June 30, 2003:  "Tangerine" by Ruth L. Schwartz
February 12, 2003:  "Square du Temple" by Marilyn Hacker
February 6, 2003:  "Late-Talking Children" by Joanna Smith Rakoff
February 5, 2003:  "The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy" by Jeffrey McDaniel
August 15, 2002:  "The Last Words of Alice the Goon" by Paul Guest
August 13, 2002:  "Wile E. Coyote Attains Nirvana" by David Hernandez
August 12, 2002:  "Interlude: Still Still" by Robin Behn

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