Poem of the Week | May 07, 2013
Aaron Belz: "Charmed"
This week we’re featuring a poem from our new spring Editor’s Prize issue, 36.1, “the ladder” issue. Aaron Belz lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and teaches at Durham Technical Community College. He’s published two books of poetry, The Bird Hoverer (BlazeVOX, 2007) and Lovely Raspberry (Persea, 2010), and has a third forthcoming, Glitter Bomb (Persea, 2014). For more information, please visit http://belz.net.
Author’s Note:
“Charmed” picks up on [the] theme of self-focus, wanting to “push off / the earth’s face” in the form of watching TV; it’s tuned to Frost’s “Birches.”
Charmed
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