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Observational poems by Dave Read

Most of these poems result from attempts to represent on the static page fluid and dynamic images that appear, of their own accord, on the screen of the imagination.

Fort Hill, Cape Cod National Seashore, July 2020; Dave Read photo.
Fort Hill, Cape Cod National Seashore, July 2020; Dave Read photo.
Season to be Witched
Not Unlike the Hoi Polloi
Tart Sweet, Mes Amis
Holy Calendarism
Introibo Ad Altare Dei
Caution! Babies on board
Hollow and unholy is “it”
Make Calfs Golden Again?
Birdsong at Dawn
Dogs, Cats, Birds, and Breeze
Let MAGA Quake, the West’s Awake
Semiquincentennial dirge/hymn
Spring, alas
Whiff of Lilac
Savage Matter
Vernal Homily
New Church
Rook’s Remorse
A Biblical portion
Ode to books
Fringe of lunacy
Live Rock
Dopler vision
Woke
The Second Falling, Jan. 20, 2025
Say Cheese
Manhattan Bridge, Edward Hopper, 1928
Prayer for the Fallen
New England October
Pivot of Fall
Al fresco
Overheard at VerseFest
February Souvenir
October in a Poem
Real Weather
Wintertime Blues
Look Up
Rain Delay
Let Them Linger
Pivot of Spring
Big Apple Byte
Peeskawso Peak
Love Rocks
Natural world monetized
Judging April
Visionaries need not apply
Advice for the Novice, now on the Cape
Cape Cod Camp Haiku
Living Will
Verbose Haiku
Vernal Metaphysics
Fall Vespers and Winter Reverie
Vowels of bright desire
Third Degree
Before Winter
We Fined God
Weight of January
What’s bracing about spring
September
We Know Breeze
Paean to an Eminence

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