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A Poem for NPM, Day 5

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Today’s poem is a fairly recent one (from 2005). Instead of introducing it too much and spoiling the fun, here it is:

David Hernandez, “Fontanelle”

There’s quite a nice symmetry going on. The question mark in stanza 3, line 3 is literally at the poem’s center and acts like a threshold. And I like the fact that Hernandez actually says what many of us probably think, even if it’s a “dark thought.”

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Other poems for April

Poets.org: Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, “Terzanelle: Manzanar Riot”

Knopf: Kenneth Koch, “From ‘The Duplications’” (as if they had known about my post from Thursday)

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