Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Ed Reilly, who taught for over 30 years at St. Joseph’s College in Windham.   A COW’S TONGUE By Ed Reilly   A cow’s tongue is like sandpaper on a hand, scraping across it to draw a fist of oats, kernels of corn, into its mouth. […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week we feature two haikus from Raymond Bouffard (Pilgrim) of Gorham.   Solitude 2   Silence so profound The wings of raptors were heard As we stood in awe.   The Black Visitor   So lightly he lands On the pine’s snow-covered branch. Nothing falls away.   Dennis Camire can […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by former Portland poet laureate, Marcia Brown, of Cape Elizabeth.   Fish By Marcia Brown   End of summer languor has set in. Lowering sun quickens the gilded evenings we have loved. One last social   down the beach plants wine glasses in our hands. We stand […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Mike Bove, who teaches at Southern Maine Community College.   Great Aunt June Saves the World By Mike Bove   On the banks of the Androscoggin they lived in a shack. Frost between wood slats, a paltry wall between winter and themselves: children with absent parents, still […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Jefferson Navicky of Freeport. His most recent book is “The Paper Coast,” published by Spuyten Duyvil Press.   Chest poem By Jefferson Navicky   In the house that lives in my chest there’s a long sloping hallway and there’s an owl in the kitchen who serves […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by the current Maine poet laureate, Stuart Kestenbaum. His most recent book is Only Now, Deerbrook Editions.   Laboratory By Stuart Kestenbaum   We’re always thinking of those hours of splendor in the grass, the glory   in the flowers and trying not to grieve as if […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is from the series editor, Dennis Camire. The poem was recently featured on Maine Public Radio.   Encounter with Roofer By Dennis Camire   When he drops his hammer for a noon sandwich He’s like a Buddha atop a grand stupa As bare feet set over the eaves […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Carolyn Locke of Troy Maine.   How It Happens By Carolyn Locke   She’s different every day, This morning, she’s the sparrow you half glimpse in the hedgerow.   You try not to startle her, take quiet, gentle steps. Still, just when you think you’re close […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Anna Wrobel of Westbrook, who co-curates the monthly Lowry’s Lodge Reading Series.   This Close By Anna Wrobel   To be this close to woodpeckers walking backwards catbirds calling out to friends goldenrod not making me sneeze to earth and grass almost unknown as an urban […]

Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Ellen Taylor of Appleton, department chair of humanities at the University of Maine at Augusta.   Resting Place By Ellen Taylor   Burly white Percheron, he laid like a fallen cloud in a trough behind the pole barn, his spine against the earth, his legs stretched […]