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Issue #63 October 2016

  • Editor’s Note

    Readers: Welcome to Plume Issue # 63 –   October: and, naturally enough, given this month’s Featured Selection on the…

    Editors Note

  • THE RAIN SO COLD

    The air of the day abhors us

  • EPHEBE WITH CYPRIPEDIUM

    Sweet ephebe, dear good friend,

  • Berlin

    We see the public statues

  • THE CURVE

    Something, call it X, wanted a body

  • It may well be, behind your back – one need only look back | Out of the crimson dawn one third the size of an icon’s

    It may well be, behind your back – one need only look back –

  • HER MOUTH

    Near the end, her mouth was pinned down

  • LA CASA BELLINA

    You seemed happy,

  • ON RETREAT | POLAND SPRING MANDARIN ORANGE

    The way you reconstructed the dream was telling –

  • NOT ALL SKELETONS ARE MUSEUM QUALITY

    Under a sky as hazy-blue-polluted

  • Max Ritvo: Rococo Doodad Shop

          Before I became acquainted with the late Max Ritvo’s poetry, which poet Louise Glück writes, is “marked…

    Featured Selection

  • Lawrence Raab: POETRY AND STUPIDITY

    Lawrence Raab: “POETRY AND STUPIDITY” 1. OBSCURITY One of the shortest and most provocative pieces in Paul Valéry’s “A Poet’s…

    Essays and Comment

  • Will flames lap? Leap? | The Country Stairs

    Will flames lap? Leap?

  • DOG CITY

    We have seen you following the scent—

  • Contagions of the Visible

    In the optics of the dark ages, the eye

  • Lucia Perillo: Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones: Selected and New Poems

    Esteemed sports writer and NPR commentator Frank Deford is, at first blush, an odd choice to narrate the 2002 PBS…

    Book Review