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Today's poem is "The Lemon"

from Copper Nickel

Zack Strait Zack Strait lives with his wife, Alison, and son, Noah, in Georgia.

Other poems on the web by Zack Strait:https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/zack-strait
Three poems
Two poems
"Another Moon"

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Other poems by Copper Nickel in Verse Daily:
July 28, 2023:   "La Corrèze" by Campbell McGrath
July 24, 2023:   "What is Left" by Bunkong Tuon
July 23, 2023:   "A Collective of Susans" by Kathryn Smith
July 22, 2023:   "Paper Skeleton Villanelle" by Rebecca Lehmann
July 21, 2023:   "Diaspora Sonnet 74" by Oliver de la Paz
November 12, 2022:   "On the Death of the Day of the Bear" by Alina Stefanescu
November 11, 2022:   "On the Death of the Day of the Bear" by Lara Egger
November 10, 2022:   "Late Winter" by Maxine Scates
November 8, 2022:   "The Silence of the Marriage" by Charles Rafferty
October 30, 2021:   "Kelpie" by Ashley Keyser
October 27, 2021:   "Practice Room" by Adam Tavel
October 26, 2021:   "Like Picasso's Weeping Woman" by Martha Silano
October 25, 2021:   "Canto XXXVIII (after Buson & Issa)" by Ashley Keyser
November 6, 2020:   "While Night Still Keeps Us" by Carl Phillips
November 5, 2020:   "Poem for the Year Just Past" by David Dodd Lee
November 4, 2020:   "The Year With No Address" by Megan Alpert
November 3, 2020:   "Why to Save the World" by Lisa Fay Coutley
June 1, 2020:   "Book of Dolls 2" by Bruce Bond
May 28, 2020:   "Eavesdropping on Adam and Eve" by Andrea Cohen
May 27, 2020:   "Marvelous Things without Number" by Troy Jollimore
May 26, 2020:   "The Blind" by Hadara Bar-Nadav
November 20, 2019:   "December" by David Baker
November 19, 2019:   "Childhood" by Daniel Lawless
November 18, 2019:   "Dear Jolene," by Natasha Sajé
February 19, 2019:   "Storm of the Century" Jill Osier
February 18, 2019:   "Poem for the Woods" Catherine Pierce
February 1, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Christopher Howell
January 31, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Landon Godfrey
January 30, 2017:   "The History of Running" by Elizabeth Langemak
March 2, 2016:   "Easter Island" by Pamela Alexander
March 1, 2016:   "Easterhouse (Wyoming)" by G. C. Waldrep
February 29, 2016:   "Matryoshka (as Madness)" by Alexandra Teague
December 24, 2015:   "Circle" by Bruce Bond
December 23, 2015:   "Algebra of the Sky" by David Hernandez
December 22, 2015:   "In Its Body" by Karina Borowicz
December 21, 2015:   "Economica" by Tony Hoagland
August 13 2015:   "I Went to the Market" by Michael Bazzett
July 29 2015:   "Animal Space" by Sarah Rose Nordgren
July 28 2015:   "koalas" by Jan Wagner (tr. David Keplinger)
July 27 2015:   "I Also Do Impressions" by D.A. Powell
January 31, 2013:   "Audubon Ate His Birds" by Kristin Robertson
January 28, 2013:   "As Vivien As Blanche" by Mark Anthony Cayanan
January 26, 2013:   "Landscape After Years With Yourself, West Texas" by Shamala Gallagher
March 24, 2012:   "Lungful" by Brian D. Morrison
March 22, 2012:   "The Decorator Crab," by Sarah Giragosian
March 21, 2012:   "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" by Rick Bursky
December 2, 2011:   "A Report" by Steve Langan
March 14, 2011:   "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" by Anna Journey
November 29, 2010:   "Thirst" by Jennie Wrisley
November 26, 2010:   "Lobster" by Matthew Minicucci
February 28, 2010:   "A Whipsaw Takes Two Men" by Patricia Lockwood
February 25, 2010:   "Blót" by A. E. Watkins
February 20, 2010:   "Contrast" by Jericho Brown
February 16, 2010:   "No Narrative" by A. E. Watkins
November 11, 2009:   "Wedding Piñata" by James Hoch
November 10, 2009:   "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" by John Estes
November 8, 2009:   "Evasion of Privacy" by Jordan Davis
November 6, 2009:   "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds" by Sandy Longhorn

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