metaphor

sweeper

Eight-hundred slender fingers / on a bound hand / gently kiss the contours / of the plane

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:November 18, 2025

reconstruction

Today’s poem is the first January River thing that’s been published elsewhere, which is really exciting! Check it out!

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:October 7, 2025

fraternal

The floor is paved with wooden planks / 
rough and scratched / 
peeling, mismatched

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:September 9, 2025

laboratory

At six forty-six p.m. / 
they’re still laying great big chunks of granite 
 / in the yard

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:August 26, 2025

countryside

The rug in the room looks like Portugal

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:August 12, 2025

anxiety

As the drugs take hold 
the mirror melts

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:July 15, 2025

inattentive

There must be a cruelty school 
or a church of unkindness

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:July 8, 2025

reservoir

Here on Maple Street 
the blacktop grade is off 
a few degrees…

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:June 17, 2025

character

Put your name tag On the inside of your shirt 
So you remember who you are

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:April 1, 2025

regular

One for the road 
He said

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• Post author:January River
• Post category:Poetry
• Post published:March 25, 2025