Here are links to each poem of the week for 2018. Wondering about the photo on this page? See note at the end of the list. Looking for 2019 poems? Use this link.
January, February, March 2018:
- Wormhole
- Sisyphus, Birding
- Stars Crawl Out from Their Caves
- Visiting Howe Caverns
- Dumbed Down
- Flight Arrival
- Octopus Houses
- What You Can Overhear
- No Pink Armadillo
- In this Circumference, an Ode?
- Deciding Not To
- Sisyphus Ponders Escape
- Sisyphus Thinks His Rock is Heavy
April, May, June 2018:
- Sisyphus Takes a Cruise
- The Film Makers Called It ‘Art’
- Mountains & Homestead, Taos
- Sisyphean
- Primer
- Journal
- Genie, After the Split
- Note to Perseus
- So Clear Now
- Worst. Flight. Ever. To. Djimma.
- Fill in the Blank
- Fetch
- The House on Magee
July, August, September 2018
- Portrait of the Bouquet as Portent
- Flood, III
- Penny Thoughts
- Papilio multicaudata
- Late Wasp Summer
- Best Supporting Actor
- Locked
- Harbor Park
- You Know What This Is
- More Parts: Add Up
- Out of Time
- Echo
- This Change
October, November, December 2018
- Standing on the Moon
- If a Tree Falls
- Box of Heads, I
- Box of Heads, II
- Suburban
- Absolutes
- Wolf
- Dear Merope, Which Rhymes with Therapy
- You Have a Head Made of a Computer Screen
- Black Hole Becoming
- A Picture’s Worth
- A Dog Knows
- Road to Jaen
- Portmanteau
About the photo:
The photo at the head of this page was taken in Alaska, from the deck of a cruise ship. I stood halfway up a set of stairs that led from one deck to another. This was necessary or I would only have been able to photograph the heads and shoulders of people in front of me. The ship spent about an hour in front of this glacier. We waited–none too patiently in some cases–for it to calve. And finally, it calved. First in small bits and pieces. Then, suddenly, a whole spire from the middle-front of the glacier broke off and created a spray as high as the glacier itself.
The problem with taking photos like this one is that it is difficult to get a sense of scale into the picture. The cruise ship, huge in any other context, was dwarfed by the glacier. We were farther away than this photo seems. The mountains make the glacier seem tiny, the glacier makes the cruise ship seem tiny, the cruise ship makes a person seem tiny. Through the glacier, the blue glow of de-oxygenated ice lit by blinding sun seems to compete with the impossible blue of the sky.
Photo: Glacier, Alaska, 2015, T. M. Adair.