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John Witte

Poetry

Nov/Dec 2015

Colony Collapse

By John Witte

The honeybees are vanishing from our lives so what troubles us about this dwindling more than another the snow leopard for example prowling the Himalayas soundlessly on its huge paws […]

Poetry

Spring 1998

Porcupine

By John Witte

Who are you calling stupid, he growls, wawling at the back door, snapping and snuffling, your old dog pierced like Saint Sebastian. We close the pliers and make him wince, […]

Poetry

Spring 1998

Choir Invisible

By John Witte

Rain and wind all night dragging the fleshy blanket of petals over you, crimson, hectic, what do you care, the stiff bud, the bunched tissue swelling open, the flouncy nodding […]

Poetry

Summer 1990

Pilgrimage

By John Witte

We drive home, the valley floor flooded with darkness, the baby inside you floating head down, swaying when the car turns, a sleeper within a sleeper. A glove of moonlight […]