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Today's poem is "Melt"

from Crazyhorse

C. J. Sage edits The National Poetry Review and press. Her poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Boston Review, Conduit, Ploughshares, SubTropics, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. Her most recent books are The San Simeon Zebras (Salmon, 2010) and Open House (forthcoming from Salmon, 2014). She works as a realtor in California and volunteers with animal welfare groups.

Other poems by C.J. Sage in Verse Daily:
January 9, 2014:   "Manifesto" "Before I'd fallen through..."
July 22, 2013:   "The Distant Future" "When it happens—something will..."
August 20, 2012:   "Self-Portrait as a Bluebird's Open Beak" "No blue at all..."
September 12, 2011:   "Crowd Forming a Mob" "Before the egg shop closed..."
June 3, 2010:   "Landscapes with Elephant Seals and Umbrellas" "In the water solitary creatures..."
April 8, 2010:   "No Wasn't Full" "No wasn't full..."
November 24, 2008:   "July" "I was wondering dollars half-hearted..."
October 2, 2008:   "Goat" "Hoofed culler of things ignored..."
June 19, 2008:   "Some Coin" "Inside, she was hendecagonic...."
March 31, 2008:   "Ostriches" "When my father held his head from the sand for a time..."
March 16, 2007:   "The San Simeon Zebras" by C. J. Sage
January 26, 2006:   "The Dark Pelican" " Her nest is crude (though on the shore it rests..."
November 2, 2005:   "Choir" by C.J. Sage
September 8, 2004:  "Managing Myth" "From time to time the red-winged blackbirds tumble..."
December 31, 2003:  "Litany for Treetops" "The way the wind breaks across a giraffe's neck..."
September 17, 2002:  "Birth Ghazal" and "Bridge Ghazal" "I want to say before I die: my heart is clear; my hands, reborn...."
August 27, 2002:  "Sonnet For Carryhouse and Keeper" "I met a man who'd kept a snail as pet...."

Books by C.J. Sage:

Other poems on the web by C.J. Sage:
"A Great Divide"
Four poems
"Sea Canaries"
"Landscapes with Elephant Seals and Umbrellas"
3 poems
"Needle"
Two poems
"Peripetia, or Flowers for Everyone"
"Memorandum on Human Being"
"The Terza Rima of Bird and Fish"
"Safari, Safari"
Two poems
Two poems

C. J. Sage's Website.

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About Crazyhorse:

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December 5, 2013:   "Shame" by Bruce Bond
December 4, 2013:   "In a Landscape: XXXIV" by John Gallaher
March 18, 2013:   "Ealuscerwen" by Edward Mayes
March 14, 2013:   "Little Muchness" by Mary Ann Samyn
March 12, 2013:   "Revisiting Snow Man" by Scott Minar
March 11, 2013:   "Song Riddle: Night-Blooming Saguaro" by Karen An-Hwei Lee
January 10, 2013:   "First Smile" by Alessandra Lynch
October 11, 2012:   "'The way to keep...'" by Alessandra Lynch
October 8, 2012:   "Galena" by Steve Gehrke
October 3, 2012:   "Flow" by Maxine Scates
October 2, 2012:   "Building the Waterfall" by Sarah Barber
October 1, 2012:   "Pilgrimage" by Rebecca Morgan Frank
February 21, 2012:   "from 'Clangings'" by Steven Cramer
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February 14, 2012:   "Epithalamium" by Carolina Ebeid
August 4, 2011:   "Near Miss" by Michael Chitwood
August 3   "The Pier" by Christopher DeWeese
August 1   "The Estate of Single Blessedness" by Mary Ruefle
February 18, 2011:   "Like a Daffodil" by Mary Ruefle
January 27, 2011:   "Valentine with broken birds" by Joni Wallace
January 23, 2011:   "First Domestic" by Anne Marie Rooney
January 19, 2011:   "Valentine with saints and sharps" by Joni Wallace
September 27, 2010:   "Timbered" by Emily Rosko
September 26, 2010:   "Cell Phone God" by Henry Hart
September 24, 2010:   "Not Something To Be Captured, Did You See the Signs?" by Lucy Anderton
January 21, 2010:   "Aubade with whales" by Bob Hicok
January 18, 2010:   "Earth and Sky" "Of all things contained here..."
July 9, 2009:   "The Fox" by Dean Young
July 6, 2009:   "The House Rhapsody" by John Gallaher
July 1, 2009:   "Matryoshka" by Teresa Pfeifer
June 29, 2009:   "The Euphoria of Peoria" by Dean Young
January 9, 2009:   "Go On, Sure, Why Not" by Gail Wronsky
January 8, 2009:   "Psalm against a Rapture" by K. A. Hays
January 7, 2009:   "In the hospital parking lot" by Marianne Boruch
July 26, 2008:   "Fire" by Edip Caserver, translated by Richard Tillinghast and Julia Clare Tillinghast
July 21, 2008:   "(detail)" by Billy Collins
January 6, 2008:   "bearing on the glory of love" by Deborah Bogen
January 5, 2008:   "The Dime-Store Parakeet" by Gary Soto
June 15, 2007:   "O Mouth Fable" by Elena Karina Byrne
June 12, 2007:   "Eat This" by Nance Van Winckel
June 11, 2007:   "Inside the Body" by Nathan Hoks
December 24, 2006:   "Northwest" by Stacie Cassarino
December 21, 2006:   "If We Are Pretty Ghosts. Hammered In" by Kerri Webster
December 18, 2006:   "Salt" by Gary Soto
June 11, 2006:   "Eight" by Todd Smith
June 10, 2006:   "Anecdote of the Field" by John Gallaher
June 7, 2006:   "Bitterness" by Charlie Smith
June 5, 2006:   "Again (Wrightsville Beach)" by Robert Creeley
December 23, 2005:   "Spell for Setting the Sun" by Susan Meyers
December 20, 2005:   "And the Wound Says" by Nance Van Winckel
December 18, 2005:   "The Elephant's Graveyard" by David Wagoner
May 19, 2005:  "Levels" Alexandra Teague
May 18, 2005:  "Poem with No Moral at the End" Charlie Clark
November 28, 2004:  "Spring and Winter, Coeval" by Charles M. Israel, Jr.
November 26, 2004:  "Botanists Who Feel Excluded Rejoice" by Anthony Lacavaro
May 23, 2004:  "Template" by A. V. Christie
May 21, 2004:  "Is More Than" by Susan Hutton
May 17, 2004:  "Solar Ice" by Paul Mariani
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May 13, 2003:  "The Sightstop" by Bill Knott
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January 20, 2003:  "Cicadas And" by Nathan Hoks

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