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Weston Morrow
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Author of Cloud Builder, winner of the National Poetry Series.
I teach writing at Ohio State. Westonmorrow.com
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Check out these incredible poems by Liz Harms (@lizharms.bsky.social) at MQR
sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2023/10/...
September 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I’m thrilled to have a poem in Lake Effect about John Constable’s 1826 painting “The Cornfield,” a painting that’s dear to me, with its own fascinating and tragic story that I’d like to tell here.
"The Cornfield," by John Constable, 1826 The Cornfield, John Constable, 1826 It opens on the countryside, a boy who from a distance seems dead, head tipped forward in the stream as if drowned. Or is he looking down, through the silt, for something beneath the surface? Surely, there is nothing there to see. No, drawing closer it seems he's only drinking the dark water, slaking his thirst before crossing Dedham Vale. You think this child might bring the scene to life; meanwhile, in a bed, tucked between Brighton and Hove, your wife is dying. No one will buy this painting. To them it is lifeless, even with the addition of the boy and his dog, the little poppies blooming on the hillside undisturbed by loss. The sheep march onward to be shorn. The farmer hangs, in his corn, a warning to the sparrows, a corpse of cloth and stuffed straw. But the birds know what the man won't admit— the body is a frail imitation of its god, betrayed by every cough of wind. Its small truths riddled with fraud. What now remains? The road persists, but the village you claimed you saw, beyond the lane, never existed.
September 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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I should be able to burn calories by charging my phone with myself

win/win if you ask me
September 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Alfred Lord Tennis-shoe
July 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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@tmcallister.bsky.social Tom, on a couple of the recent Bookfight eps you've mentioned good crime novels you've been reading, but I can't for the life of me find where in the episodes you mentioned them. Do you remember what they were?
July 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM