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Today's poem is "Barter"

from Southern Poetry Review

Michael Chitwood Chapel Hill, NC. Most recent: Poor-Mouth Jubilee (Tupelo Press, 2010).

Other poems by Michael Chitwood in Verse Daily:
August 4, 2011:   "Near Miss" "It's a hands-in-your-coat-pockets-stroll kind of a day...."
July 4, 2011:   "At the Dock at Dusk" "The rowboats are all tucked in..."
December 10, 2010:   "Going" by "To seep..."
December 18, 2008:   "Barter" "We invented money..."
December 16, 2007:   "Blue Sky" "Everyone he knew believed in God...."
February 20, 2007:   "The Deer" "I am being prayed for...."

Books by Michael Chitwood:

Other poems on the web by Michael Chitwood:
Four poems
Four poems
Three poems
"Dense Fog in Which I Miss the Eastern Seaboard’s Largest Flag Flying over a Toyota Dealership off I-95 near Washington, D.C."
"The Ladder"
Five poems
Two poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Heat"
"Sheds"
"The Snowfields at Lone Fountain"
"Duty and History"
Four poems
"The Small-Town Voice of God"

About Southern Poetry Review:

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Southern Poetry Review * Dept. of Languages, Literature and Philosophy * Armstrong Atlantic State University * 11935 Abercorn Street * Savannah, Georgia 31419-1997
Editor: Robert Parham
Other poems by Southern Poetry Review in Verse Daily:
July 18, 2012:   "Lightweights" by Jeff Hardin
March 13, 2010:   "Woodpecker" by Harry Bauld
August 19, 2009:   "Ebb" by Martha Zweig
August 18, 2009:   "Barter" by Jeff Hardin
August 13, 2009:   "Lifeguards" by William Greenway
March 2, 2009:   "Jellyfish" by George David Clark
January 15, 2009:   "Theology" by K. A. Hays
January 13, 2009:   "Bees" by Cathryn Essinger
January 12, 2009:   "Gamophobia" by Patrick Ryan Frank
December 21, 2008:   "Maximillian Sunflowers" by Brett DeFries
December 19, 2008:   "The Dead" by Fleda Brown
December 18, 2008:   "Barter" by Michael Chitwood
October 30, 2006:   "Revival" by Jeannette Barnes
October 25, 2006:   "Trillium" by Fleda Brown

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