Bruce Morton
@brucemorton.bsky.social
Author of two poetry collections: Planet Mort (2024) and Simple Arithmetic & Other Artifices (2014). His poems have appeared in numerous online and print venues. He was formerly dean at the Montana State University library.
Happy to have a poem in the new issue of APHOR. Please give it a read at www.aphor.org/poetry/this-...
This Was Just to Say — APHOR
after William Carlos Williams I have eaten the crumbs that were in the fridge which you were probably coveting for breakfast thank me they were spoiled grown green with mold
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December 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Happy to have a poem in the new issue of APHOR. Please give it a read at www.aphor.org/poetry/this-...
I am pleased to have a poem, “The Barmuda Triangle,” published today at The Rye Whiskey Review. Please give it a read at ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
The Barmuda Triangle By Bruce Morton
(Bozeman, Montana) Proximity and geometry, they are what It was that got them that moniker. Three Neighboring watering holes, a...
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November 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I am pleased to have a poem, “The Barmuda Triangle,” published today at The Rye Whiskey Review. Please give it a read at ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
I am pleased to have a poem, “Fall Geese,” published today at The Raven’s Perch. Please give it a read at theravensperch.com/fall-geese-b...
FALL GEESE BY BRUCE MORTON - The RavensPerch
It is late in the afternoon when They land in a glide on the stubble Of the wheat field to gorge on what The threshers have left behind. Yellow aspen leaves leave A welcome mat on the steel-gray Water...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I am pleased to have a poem, “Fall Geese,” published today at The Raven’s Perch. Please give it a read at theravensperch.com/fall-geese-b...
I am pleased to have my poem, “Cocktail Party,” published today at Dear Booze. Please give it a read at dearbooze.com/cocktales/f/...
Cocktail Party
by Bruce Morton
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November 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I am pleased to have my poem, “Cocktail Party,” published today at Dear Booze. Please give it a read at dearbooze.com/cocktales/f/...
New poem, “Doldrums,” up at the journal Dear Booze. Please give it a read at dearbooze.com/cocktales/f/...
Doldrums
by Bruce Morton
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October 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
New poem, “Doldrums,” up at the journal Dear Booze. Please give it a read at dearbooze.com/cocktales/f/...
A little late in posting, but please give my poem, “Ice,” in Dissident Voice a read at dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/ice/
Ice | Dissident Voice
When I was a child it was the ice man Cometh, several times a week, a flatbed Truck with a huge block of ice covered By a canvas tarp. That was then. He was An anachronism on the verge of becoming Ext...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:04 AM
A little late in posting, but please give my poem, “Ice,” in Dissident Voice a read at dissidentvoice.org/2025/08/ice/
I am pleased to have my poem, “Diphthong,” in the October issue of Stick Figure Poetry Journal. Please give give it a read at stickfigurepoetry.com/issue-19/#di...
Issue #19
Artwork in this issue by Alyssa Fell Photography Spider in Orange Juice by Ace Boggess Stopped By a Cop by John Grey A Year Ago by Shontay Luna What is Growing? by Vanessa Vicario What it Means to …
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October 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I am pleased to have my poem, “Diphthong,” in the October issue of Stick Figure Poetry Journal. Please give give it a read at stickfigurepoetry.com/issue-19/#di...
I am pleased to have my poem, “Plastic,” up today at CommuterLit. Please give it a read at commuterlit.com/2025/09/thur...
THURSDAY: Plastic
BY BRUCE MORTON Copyright is held by the author. So, the article says that it is alreadyIn our blood, already in our breastMilk, and placentas. We are born to itAnd bear it as it nurtures convenien…
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September 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I am pleased to have my poem, “Plastic,” up today at CommuterLit. Please give it a read at commuterlit.com/2025/09/thur...
American Haiku
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September 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
American Haiku
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I am pleased to have a poem, “Ersatz Solar Farm—Reed Point, Montana,” in the September issue of Verse Virtual. Please give it a read at www.verse-virtual.org/2025/Septemb...
Bruce Morton Verse-Virtual September 2025
The poetry of Bruce Morton
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August 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I am pleased to have a poem, “Ersatz Solar Farm—Reed Point, Montana,” in the September issue of Verse Virtual. Please give it a read at www.verse-virtual.org/2025/Septemb...
I am pleased to have a poem, “Making Fire,” up at The Woodside Review today please give it a read at substack.com/home/post/p-...
MAKING FIRE
The power of the sun’s rays — Poetry by Bruce Morton
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August 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I am pleased to have a poem, “Making Fire,” up at The Woodside Review today please give it a read at substack.com/home/post/p-...
I am pleased to have a poem, “Summer Wedding,” up at The Literary Underground. Please give it a read at theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/07...
Summer Wedding by Bruce Morton - The Literary Underground
Summer Wedding The cicadas chant Their song of sex, sex And longing, like a Greek Chorus, courting The inevitable divorce. Nobody listens. Humidity provides A bond that holds close The ceremony. Every...
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August 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I am pleased to have a poem, “Summer Wedding,” up at The Literary Underground. Please give it a read at theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/07...
My poem, “The Screen,” appears in today’s The Fixator Press. Please give it a read at fixatorpress.home.blog/2025/06/12/t...
The Screen by Bruce Morton
The Screen Comes the hour of morningWhen alpen glue binds gildedSunlight to the metallic matrixThat is my screen. The glassBetween me and it reflectsWhat I daily see. But when lightIs just right th…
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June 12, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My poem, “The Screen,” appears in today’s The Fixator Press. Please give it a read at fixatorpress.home.blog/2025/06/12/t...
I’m pleased to have three of my poems—“Say What?,” “Past,” and “Red Beans and Rice”—up at Chewers. Please give them a read at chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/3...
3 Poems by Bruce Morton
Say What? She speaks to meAnd I say, “what?”— She tells me, again, I needTo get my ears checked. But when she faces meI can hear her just fine. When she does not mumbleI hear her loud and clear. Wh…
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May 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I’m pleased to have three of my poems—“Say What?,” “Past,” and “Red Beans and Rice”—up at Chewers. Please give them a read at chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/3...
I am pleased to have my poem, “Closing Arguments,” up today at The Rye Whiskey Review. Please give it a read at ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2025/05/clos...
Closing Arguments By Bruce Morton
The words the drunk speaks Are not the effects of truth Serum, but a vocabulary enebriate, Pickled in a slurry of barley brine, The fermenta...
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May 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I am pleased to have my poem, “Closing Arguments,” up today at The Rye Whiskey Review. Please give it a read at ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2025/05/clos...
I am pleased to have my poem “Cinco de Mayo, 1969” up at Disturb the Universe Magazine. Please give it a read at “Cinco de Mayo 1969,” Disturb the Universe Magazine (May 6, 2025) online journal at www.disturbtheuniversemagazine.com/2025/05/cinc...
Cinco de Mayo, 1969 by Bruce Morton
Marines don’t cry. But these did. I saw it, I sat there and watched. They were sucked in by the draft, Riptide undercurrent we all feared. C...
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May 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I am pleased to have my poem “Cinco de Mayo, 1969” up at Disturb the Universe Magazine. Please give it a read at “Cinco de Mayo 1969,” Disturb the Universe Magazine (May 6, 2025) online journal at www.disturbtheuniversemagazine.com/2025/05/cinc...
I am pleased to have a poem, “Ecdysis,” up at Spillwords. Please give it a read at spillwords.com/ecdysis/
Ecdysis, poetry by Bruce Morton at Spillwords.com
Spillwords.com presents: Ecdysis, poetry by Bruce Morton, whose poems have appeared in numerous online and print venues.
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May 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I am pleased to have a poem, “Ecdysis,” up at Spillwords. Please give it a read at spillwords.com/ecdysis/
I am pleased to have my poem, “Carla,” out today at MasticadoresUSA. Please give it a read at masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/c...
“Carla” by Bruce Morton
Photo by Dhivakaran S on Pexels.com If you know anyone at risk of suicide or if you are at risk, contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. You can call or text 988. Chat lines are available. The…
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April 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I am pleased to have my poem, “Carla,” out today at MasticadoresUSA. Please give it a read at masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/c...
So pleased to have a poem, “My Wokeness,” in the March issue of Verse Virtual. www.verse-virtual.org/2025/March/m...
Bruce Morton Verse-Virtual March 2025
The poetry of Bruce Morton
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March 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
So pleased to have a poem, “My Wokeness,” in the March issue of Verse Virtual. www.verse-virtual.org/2025/March/m...
Pleased to have a new poem, “Beer Nuts,” at The Rye Whiskey Review: ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2025/02/beer...
Beer Nuts By Bruce Morton
Salty by design. They are Free, set out on, or at, the bar. Intended to make you thirsty-- To keep you thirsty, to desire To have another si...
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February 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Pleased to have a new poem, “Beer Nuts,” at The Rye Whiskey Review: ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2025/02/beer...
I am pleased to have published today in the Lothorien Poetry Journal two poems, “Matryoshka Dolls 1 & 2”. Pease give them a read at lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/01/two-...
Two Poems by Bruce Morton
Lothlorien Poetry Journal Edited by Strider Marcus Jones Poet - Publishes poetry and fiction online and in print periodically. https://lothlorienp
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January 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I am pleased to have published today in the Lothorien Poetry Journal two poems, “Matryoshka Dolls 1 & 2”. Pease give them a read at lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2025/01/two-...
I am pleased that my poem, “Sausages,” is newly posted at The Dope Fiend Daily. Please give it a read at thedopefienddaily.blogspot.com/2025/01/saus...
Sausages By Bruce Morton
We are all sausages In our skin linked together. Blood, bone, meat put Through the daily grind. Some red, some brown, Some white, each flavo...
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January 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I am pleased that my poem, “Sausages,” is newly posted at The Dope Fiend Daily. Please give it a read at thedopefienddaily.blogspot.com/2025/01/saus...