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April 2025

Newton's Cradle
a pundit cries with a raised voice: "the dreaded wrong choice made at a fork in the road has started a war!" see now the skirmishes multiply like…
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Judy Wu Dominick
An Easter Reflection: Engaging With Deadness
A few weeks ago, I wrote the poem “Flowers When They Come, and Flowers When They Go” as a way to process the sense of sadness, even dread, I feel…
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The World in Meters Per Second
two hundred million meters per second— the rate at which opinion, news, the scandalous, art, music, and hot-take analysis travel from someone's loose…
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March 2025

Flowers When They Come, and Flowers When They Go
C lear sky, morning light, H ouse finch singing in my line of sight— A ll make me long for yesterday, N ot the newness of today. G one are the blooms…
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Millicent and the Willow Tree
Gorgeous you are—magnificent. Why, thank you kindly, Millicent. Dressed up in a green ballgown, yet unmistakably looking... Down? I'm glad YOU said it—I…
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Paying Attention
It's a good thing I was paying attention Or I might have missed you both, Doing your best work, Right there in the middle of that patch of common…
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Judy Wu Dominick
An Off-the-Cuff Update
And a belated intro to the current poetry series
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It's not a competition
It’s not a competition, you know Between late and early bloomers The have-its and the have-nots The clad and the unclad Those who think it's spring…
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Surface Roots, an Origin Story
A sonnet in iambic pentameter
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Why Do You Do It?
Why do you do it, little one? Why do you look me full in the face, with joy and expectation, when everyone around you is downcast? After all, You don't…
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What Is A Door? What Is It For?
Tap on it, Convey a question. Slam it, Deliver a rebuke. Lock it, Now it's less clear what you've done— kept danger at bay or a dear friend away…
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Judy Wu Dominick
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