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Today's poem is "Feral"

from Poetry Northwest

Kimberly Johnson is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Uncommon Prayer, and of book-length translations of Virgil and Hesiod. Recipient of grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA, she has recent work in New England Review, Harvard Review, and The Cincinnati Review.

Other poems by Kimberly Johnson in Verse Daily:
December 12, 2016:   "Folio" "The king's in rags, the robe of his state unseamed..."
November 6, 2014:   "Matins for the Last Frost" "Patient in their dark hibernacle..."
October 28, 2014:   "Farthingale" "In my pennyworth of windblown..."
April 2, 2013:   "Blanks" "The sun rolls up like jackpot..."
December 9, 2009:   "Pitbull" "what can you suppose I want from you?..."
September 18, 2008:   "Love Song" "Stay, adder, startled from the spikenard..."
July 23, 2008:   "Jubilee" "No seduction in the hothouse, its aisles..."
May 31, 2007:   "Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages" " Prayed loud all night and so humbled over..."
January 11, 2007:   "On Divination by Birds" " Try a small black radio from any year..."
January 2, 2007:   "Easter, Looking Westward" " The stars! the stars have fled the sky!..."
July 9, 2003:  "Sonnet" "No seduction in the hothouse, its aisles..."

Books by Kimberly Johnson:

Other poems on the web by Kimberly Johnson:
Three poems
Four poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Catapult"
"Marking the Lambs"
"Voluptuary"
"Sonnet"

Kimberly Johnson according to Wikipedia.

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