ashes and sparks

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ashes and sparks
Selected poems

Selected poems

Something old, something unseen, something borrowed, something green

Paul Franz
Aug 14, 2022
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For everyone who took an interest in my poem “Breakwater,” here are a few others. Here is a link to “Rathlin Island,” which appeared in the New York Review of Books in early 2021. (Don’t be discouraged by the fading text at the bottom of the page; the free preview presents the poem in its entirety. You may, if you wish, imagine the lines descending into…

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