Eastman’s “On Leave” opens with a study of contrasts on new motherhood, set lakeside where the speaker and her newborn son are spending the morning after sleepless nights.
Robert Wood Lynn balances the natural with the manmade, and loneliness with connection—though his speakers find more companionship in nature than among other humans.
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This poem’s speaker inhabits the experience of travel expert Rick Steves watching a video of himself visiting Iran, straddling the line between critique/satire and a kind of compassion.
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