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Today's poem is "Unsonnet"

from Ecotone

Lesley Wheeler's new books are The State She's In, her fifth poetry collection, and Unbecoming, her first novel. Her poems and essays appear in such journals as The Common, Crab Orchard Review, Gettysburg Review, and Massachusetts Review, and she is Poetry Editor of Shenandoah. She lives in Lexington, Virginia.

Other poems by Lesley Wheeler in Verse Daily:
July 16, 2019:   "Inside Out" "Shouldn't talk with a mouthful of half-chewed flags..."
March 13, 2016:   "Semicolons" "Samaras, sticky tender things, helicopter..."
September 3, 2009:   "Past Bedtime" "Sometimes I feel like a stream, she said...."
August 16, 2009:   "Selfish" "When you are always right, it is hard to diet..."
June 30, 2009:   "Inland Song" "In some kind houses the doors..."
November 14, 2007:   "Lazy Eye" " The stranger unplugs her bogus teeth..."

Books by Lesley Wheeler:

Other poems on the web by Lesley Wheeler:
Two poems
"My Dead Father Remembers My Birthday"
Two poems
Three poems
"Letter to America"
"Feeling Good"
"3rd Violation"
"Oral Culture"
"Bequest"
"Dressing Down, 1962"
Three poems
"Rimwalkers"
Three poems
Two poems
"Zombie Thanksgiving"

Lesley Wheeler's Website.

Lesley Wheeler According to Wikipedia.

Lesley Wheeler on Twitter.

About Ecotone:

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Poetry Editor: Hunter Hobbs
Other poems by Ecotone in Verse Daily:
June 7, 2020:   "Extinction, Laserpicium" by A. E. Stallings
June 5, 2020:   "An Unsent Letter" by Jenna Le
June 2, 2020:   "Washing Your Feet" by George David Clark
October 1, 2019:   "The Night I Wore the Purple Dress" by January Gill O'Neil
September 30, 2019:   "Evensong (O, Bewildering Picture)" by Bethany Schultz Hurst

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