Poem-a-Day

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Poem-a-day

^{translated from the Ojibwe by the author}

At the threshold
of melancholy
is a voice barely heard

a light wrapped in fog
and a piece of steel
longing for flint.

Strike it.

Gashkikanokaaning
apii gashkenindaman
agaawaa bapoweyan

waateg gashkaabateg
manidoo-biiwaabik
misawenimaad biiwaanan.

Zisikinebidoon.

Title	Author	Date
Minna (IX)	Maxwell Bodenheim	12/12/2021
Paradox	Georgia Douglas Johnson	12/11/2021
Trap Music	David Tomas Martinez	12/10/2021
Meditation in the Open-Air Garage	Carol Moldaw	12/09/2021
Big Clock	Li-Young Lee	12/08/2021
From “The Trees Witness Everything”	Victoria Chang	12/07/2021
Dancing, before you were born	J. Hope Stein	12/06/2021
Appalling Heart	Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven	12/05/2021
Winter with the Gulf Stream	Gerard Manley Hopkins	12/04/2021
from “The Book of Absence”	Alireza Roshan	12/03/2021