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POETRY THE PHRASE Nikia Leopold Sometimes, traversing a day, the phrase arrives: ‘My kind father.’ I pause, go on, knowing this is a way we’re remembered. Nothing specific, nothing planned...

â€œOnce Moreâ€ (May 2021)

POETRY ONCE MORE Nikia Leopold The full moon rises at the top of our street, a gradual discovery made together settling in. Each month the moon floods the boards of our bedroom floor with...

â€œMarketâ€ (December 2020)

POETRY MARKET Nikia Leopold An old woman moves toward me, using her cart as a walker, head hunched into fragile shoulders. I see her often here, respect her painful travel through the...

â€œFamilyâ€ (July 2020)

POETRY FAMILY Nikia Leopold Walls of narrow streets were neighbors, facing windows borrowing light, shade. From our balcony I noticed a bowl of fruit emptying, filling on the table opposite....

Vacation (September 2012)

VACATION Beyond my pillow the Arno stalls. Carp are still. No current discloses source from destination. Spring and sea pause like two middle-aged shoppers comparing the virtues of fresh water...

Unrooted (March 2009)

I’ve written a dozen postcards in this hill town to say I remember all of you, there, where you should be, rooted in various places. Here each village seems someone left behind, a red...

Poetry: (March 1990)

Nikia Leopold Escarpment from Water Here the land-scent sweetens salt With waves of Beachplums and succulents. From the lapping water A dazzle of seagrape Leaves and sun On the ridge. The reef...

Leprince-Ringuet, Louis

Lercaro, James Cardinal

Lerner, Ben

Lerner, Michael

Lersky, Joe

Leslie, Kenneth

Leslie, Shane

Leslie, Shne

Lester, Elenore

Lester, Julius

Lester, Philip

Lester, Richard A.