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Today's poem is "The Vault"

from River Styx

Dan Albergottiis the author of the full-length collections The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008) and Millennial Teeth (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), as well as the chapbooks Of Air and Earth (Unicorn Press, 2019) and Circa MMXX (Unicorn Press, 2022). His poems have appeared in 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, Copper Nickel, Five Points, The Southern Review, The Best American Poetry, and The Pushcart Prize, as well as other journals and anthologies. He is a professor of English at Coastal Carolina University.

Other poems by Dan Albergotti in Verse Daily:
June 20, 2022:   "Of Truth and Other Fabrications" "Of all those old truths now no longer true..."
April 1, 2022:   "Anthem" "We sang the same song time and time again...."
January 31, 2022:   "Brayer" "From four fields down this morning, the Walkers' mule..."
March 9, 2021:   "Earth Shovel" "Photographed from 18,000 miles in 1972, Earth had the look..."
February 3, 2020:   "The Elect" "Like the vole, I have wandered a field..."
December 2, 2019:   "A Sort of Art" "They made a sort of music with their feet..."
August 16, 2019:   "To Sleep" "They die so many times before our eyes..."
July 6, 2019:   "Kick in the Jaw" "Sometimes the zebra wins. And the sound..."
June 24, 2019:   "Of Cowardice and Courage" "When Thomas Jefferson made his new book..."
September 26, 2016:   "Vane" "The rusted rooster spins alone these days..."
September 11, 2014:   "God" "Somewhere beneath 125th Street there's a small machine..."
November 11, 2013:   "A Theater Near You" "They say the end is coming, coming soon...."
May 7, 2008:   "Turning Back" "We turn back, always bowing to that urge..."
February 15, 2007:   "Surprising the Gods" "Suppose Eurydice had, running through the evening field..."

Books by Dan Albergotti:

Other poems on the web by Dan Albergotti:
"Innocents"
"The Beetles"
"Appetite"
"Among the Things He Does Not Deserve"
Four poems
"A Poem About Nothing"
Two poems
"Reel"
"Days Spent in One of the Other Worlds"
"Outside"
Two poems
Two Poems
Twenty-one poems
"Reel"
"December 25, 2005"
"Revision"

Dan Albergotti's Website.

About River Styx:

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Other poems from River Styx in Verse Daily:
November 15, 2022:   "Seeing Those Damn Greasy" by Benjamin S. Grossberg
April 22, 2021:   "Snow Burial" by Bruce Bond
April 21, 2021:   "Great Blue Heron" by Jehanne Dubrow
February 21, 2020:   "Home Movies" by Emma Bolden
February 20, 2020:   "Visitant" by Robert Wrigley
November 17, 2013:   "One Hundredth Anniversary Edition of 'Birches'" by Richard Cecil
November 16, 2013:   "Bon Fire" by Chris Mattingly
July 5, 2013:   "Song of the Jellyfish" by Lee Upton
August 11, 2010:   "Stone Seeking Warmth" by Stephen Dunn
August 9, 2010:   "Puffer Fish" by Charles Harper Webb
July 2, 2009:   "How to Sleep" by Dorianne Laux
August 2, 2008:   "Sunset Knoll" by George Bilgere
July 7, 2007:   "G Is for Not Just One George" by Mary Jo Bang
January 7, 2007:   "To My Son In Iraq" by Frances Richey
January 3, 2007:   "God's Ode to Creation" by Maura Stanton
July 23, 2006:   "The Devil's Trill" by Timothy Liu
July 18, 2006:   "The Fern Seed" by Cecily Parks
January 25, 2006:   "Single-Lens Reflex" by Debra Kang Dean
January 12, 2006:   "Becoming Involved" by Elizabeth Rees
June 2, 2005:  "Eighty From Seventy-Eight" by William Gass
May 31, 2005:  "Maybe" Myrna Stone
May 30, 2005:  "Chum" Lucia Perillo
July 2, 2004:  "In Ambient Light" by Greg Rappleye
June 30, 2004:  "Darwin Enters the City of His Birth" by Melanie Dusseau
September 4, 2003:  "Luxembourg howtosleeps at Twilight" by James Doyle
September 3, 2003:  "Thank You" by Molly Peacock
March 7, 2003:  "Love, with Trees and Lightning" by Catie Rosemurgy
March 6, 2003:  "A Leopard Hanging in a Tree" by Eric Rawson
March 3, 2003:  "Waiting With a Stranger" by David Simpson
February 25, 2003:  "Fame and Fortune Cookie" by Richard Cecil
December 6, 2002:  Small Ghost Poem by Lawrence Raab
December 4, 2002:  Bride by Jeanne Marie Beaumont
September 16, 2002:  "Advertisement for the Ford Explorer" by David Roderick
July 27, 2002:  "Heroic Roses" by Elton Glaser

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