Northern Cardinal Review

There is a great wind this morning the trees are rejoicing in it heavy snows having left their branches the …
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The sound of poles crashing telegraph and telephone wires, felling oak trees, old chestnut trees, snowdrifts up to fifty feet …
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tourmente by Margot Lettner My idea about the existence of this volcano: a pink silver blue birth a chimney on …
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the quality of water as silk gliding through soft wind the quality of wind as soft silk brushing warm arms …
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The spirit strives but the flesh don’t care. away, away the summer drives the bitter wind        assaults my hair. I …
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Wild winter skybroods on the horizon,perched up highwith outstretched wings,watching, waitingto swoop down swiftlyand pierce its clawsinto your dreams of …
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Disappointment has another mouth to feed and the earth is encumbered with barbed wire. I hear the echoes of despair …
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Stand with me for a moment in paradise with a golden road but no gate; let’s walk off the path …
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Lying flat on our backs on damp sand, we point out the fizz of shooting stars streaking across the sky: …
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I climb down the steps under a sliver of moon. The river is a black silk ribbon. Pines creak a …
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We thread our fingers with these brief weeks so intimately, despite lusty eyes already turned toward hibernation. Nine months through …
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The terrible things you say – as a severe yet loving father to a wayward child – concerning modern poetry …
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