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Let me Reframe it Like This
A free-verse poem [CW: ableism, textures]
6 hrs ago • Lee Summers
Excavating "The Last Dinosaur" by Ocean Vuong
Poem Close Reading #2/???
Feb 21 • Lee Summers
Dear Hoom
[CW: Self Harm]
Feb 19 • Lee Summers
Unpacking "Embarrassing" by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
A Poem Close Reading Number One of Who Knows?
Feb 15 • Lee Summers
Dirge to MacArthur Regal Cinema/Garbage Town in Moribund MacArthur
[CW: waste, pollution]
Feb 13 • Lee Summers
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Giddy Gheeldyn Got her Dinner
Oct 31, 2025 • Lee Summers
I Vow
Jun 23, 2025 • Lee Summers
Solidago altissima
Oct 18, 2025 • Lee Summers
Renovated Auditorium in a Decrepit Elementary School, Spring, 2006
Jun 28, 2025 • Lee Summers
Voyage to Nassau/Will There Ever Come a Time
Two disinterred poems
Feb 8 • Lee Summers
33 Altars, January, 2016
[CW: bones, suggestive content]
Feb 7 • Lee Summers
February 4th, 2026
The street hums desolate and dark. Mounds of hardened snow carpet filings of leaves that have fallen. Grey is the slush decaying into water.
Feb 4 • Lee Summers
Quiscalus quiscula
The Common Grackle
Feb 1 • Lee Summers
The Death Tangerine
After "The Death of the Self" by Linda Pastan
Jan 30 • Lee Summers
Golf Cart, July, 2007
My middle-school hands turn the cart on and the ignition of the engine ignites the byes I would—will never share with the man who bore me my backspin…
Jan 28 • Lee Summers
The Great Dismal Swamp Maroons
After Song of the Broad-Axe by Walt Whitman [CW: Death, Slavery, Colonialism, Authoritarianism]
Jan 25 • Lee Summers
You See, What Had Happened Was . . .
[CW: Current Events]
Jan 23 • Lee Summers
Cimex lectularius, June, 2012
[CW: bedbugs, decay]
Jan 21 • Lee Summers
Lee Summers
Lee Summers
Poetry and prose about identity, memory, community, and whatever else I feel like writing about.
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