Member since April 14, 2013 | 2,047 Readings |

ryan scariano

Gresham / La Grande [ryanscariano.com]

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Feeling Deeply

ryan scariano

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If only you could choose / to feel deeply. Since you cannot, / I will feel deeply for us both. / I will bury our hundred summers / in a hole…

Grace

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Heavenly father and mother, sister and brother, / O great and wise aunt and laughing uncle, / thank you for bringing us to your table. / …

Mohamed Upstairs

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The upstairs neighbor, / Mohamed, welcomed me / when I moved into the building. / Maqluba, kabsa, kanafeh. / Mohamed upstairs / in that…

Where is Aims, Oregon?

ryan scariano

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(for Nate) // / it’s beside the culvert // where the mossy gnome lives / where the watershed daughters / hunt for earthworms under / the…

Northern Flicker

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The snow whispers a lesson / in letting go. The leaves / are shouting / from brown and gold / to green and greener. They fall / clear up…

The Old Country

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When they trepanned me I saw blue, green, yellow, / and violet over the gray hill, past the river of history beating / enormous and copper....

Pickling Song

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She’s washing Mason jars, cutting dill, / scrubbing cucumbers, bringing the brine / to a boil. It’s a process. A short season’s / worth of…

Black Friday Night

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My jade plant start loves the logic / of streetlamps. She wants to prosper, / to grow under the moonlight. / She wants to shine off the gleam /…

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Tiny Poems of 2017

Ross Robbins

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Good morning,constant universe.Milky Waywets my cereal.Defunk my eyes; sigh. / * / tinily the dream infects the day— must stay awake… / * /…

It’s Wednesday morning. I have something…

Ross Robbins

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It is so easy to lose track of a limb // when you live outside your body, outside your / “self.” Greyer than a cinderblock down / in your gut....

I AM NOTICING

Steve Caratzas

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The white noise machine // Doesn’t play Sabbath / If I could contemplate / Believe me I would / The word “baby” repeatedly / Leaking out of…

Slow, Heavy

Becca Yenser

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when we moved to the midwest we gasped // rolled our windows down // ate cheeseburgers and let frozen cokes burn our tongues // it took us five…

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