John Blair has published six books, most recently Playful Song Called Beautiful (University of Iowa Press, 2016) as well as poems & stories in The Colorado Review, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The Antioch Review, New Letters, and elsewhere. His seventh book, The Aphelion Elegies, is forthcoming from Mainstreet Rag Press in January of 2023.

Other poems by John Blair in Verse Daily:
October 9, 2020:   "Clown Life" "This life won't start without you and it's never without you..."
May 11, 2017:   "Pennies from Heaven" "There it is again..."

Books by John Blair:

Other poems on the web by John Blair:
excerpt from "Aphorism 33: Life is a Flame That Burns Itself Out"
"Burning"
Two poems
"Cicada"
"The Morning After the War"
"Aubade for Ash Wednesday"

John Blair's Website.

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