Owen McLeod
Poem About America Made from the Beginnings
of First Lines of Poems by Emily Dickinson
My country need not
My best
My eye
My faith
My friend
My garden
My river
My heart
My soul
My God
My life
The bat
The bee
The beggar
The blackberry
The bobolink
The butterfly
The child’s faith
The color
The crickets
The daisy
The frost
The good
The grass
The mind
The voice
The words
I am afraid
I am ashamed
I cannot be
I cannot buy
I cannot dance
I cannot meet
I cannot see
I cannot live
I cannot want it more
I can’t tell you but you feel it
Owen McLeod is author of the poetry collections Before After, forthcoming from Saturnalia Books, and Dream Kitchen, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. His poems appear most recently in $ Poetry is Currency, Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, Smartish Pace, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He teaches philosophy at Lafayette College in Easton, PA.
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of First Lines of Poems by Emily Dickinson
My country need not
My best
My eye
My faith
My friend
My garden
My river
My heart
My soul
My God
My life
The bat
The bee
The beggar
The blackberry
The bobolink
The butterfly
The child’s faith
The color
The crickets
The daisy
The frost
The good
The grass
The mind
The voice
The words
I am afraid
I am ashamed
I cannot be
I cannot buy
I cannot dance
I cannot meet
I cannot see
I cannot live
I cannot want it more
I can’t tell you but you feel it
Owen McLeod is author of the poetry collections Before After, forthcoming from Saturnalia Books, and Dream Kitchen, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. His poems appear most recently in $ Poetry is Currency, Alaska Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, Smartish Pace, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. He teaches philosophy at Lafayette College in Easton, PA.
Return to September 2022 Edition