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Today's poem is "The Ghost"

from Twelve Mile Review

Dan Albergotti is the author of 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, Ecotone, 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:
November 18, 2022:   "The Vault" "Kingsolver tells young writers to stop smoking..."
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:
"Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale"
"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.

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Other poems by Twelve Mile Review in Verse Daily:
July 30, 2023:   "Birmingham Points to Little Rock" by Andrew Cox
January 15, 2023:   "Saved" by Bonnie Proudfoot
January 13, 2023:   "Self-portrait After Memory" by Marjorie Maddox
March 26, 2022:   "Burial of a Woman With the Blackened Shells of 86 Tortoises" by Wendy Drexler
March 25, 2022:   "Gnomon" by Erin Wilson
November 2, 2021:   "A Song of My People" by Jeff Hardin
October 28, 2021:   "Trust" by Marjorie Maddox

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