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    Moments Between Cities
    Moments Between Cities
    Moments Between Cities
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    Moments Between Cities

    By John Michael Flynn

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    An E-book re-issue of a collection originally published in June, 1997 by E. Mellon Press. In 1998, it earned the Peace Corp's annual award for best poetry book by a former volunteer. Forrest Gander described the poems as "not absurdly modern, but they take the risk of articulating a serious moral gaze.

    "John Flynn's poems show originality and his own imagery. They are good and deserve to be read."
    Leo Connellan, former poet laureate of Connecticut

    "I have sampled these poems with pleasure."
    Richard Wilbur, former poet laureate of U.S.A.

    "What a pleasure it is, in an era of one unclad emperor after another of the "postmodern" academy's evasions and obliquities, to come on a young writer who addresses things that actually matter in a book of poems! John Michael Flynn speaks of real and recognizable characters in real and recognizable locales; their dreams and their anxieties are -- to use a word now sniffed at by the tenure hounds -- universal in their relevance. I recommend his work to all readers, not just so-called specialists in poetry.
    Sydney Lea

    "These poems are not 'absurdly modern' but take the risk of articulating a serious moral gaze."
    Forrest Gander

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Michael Flynn
    Release dateJun 19, 2012
    ISBN9781476360072
    Moments Between Cities
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    John Michael Flynn

    John Michael Flynn was the 2017 Writer in Residence at Carl Sandburg’s home, Connemara, in North Carolina. In 2015 he completed a one-year English Language Fellowship through the US State Department in Khabarovsk, Russia. Poetry collections include Restless Vanishings, and Keepers Meet Questing Eyes from Leaf Garden Press. (www.leafgarden.blogspot.com), and Blackbird Once Wild Now Tame translated from the Romanian of Nicolae Dabija. He’s published three collections of short stories, his most recent Vintage Vinyl Playlist from Fomite Books (www.fomitepress.com). Fomite has also published his second collection, Off To The Next Wherever. His collection of essays, How The Quiet Breathes, was published in 2021 by New Meridian Arts.( https://www.newmeridianarts.com). He’s earned awards from the New England Poetry Club, and the U.S. Peace Corps. Visit him at https://jmfbr1.blogspot.com/His books can be found from these publisher websiteshttp://leafgardenpress.blogspot.com/https://publerati.com/https://www.fomitepress.com/https://www.newmeridianarts.com/https://jmfbr1.blogspot.com/https://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Michael-Flynn/e/B0C6V89VVVHere is a sample of some comments from readers:“John Michael Flynn’s language dazzles to a very real end: the exploration and delineation of the free-floating breakdown known as ‘America.’ The range of tones and locales he uses is impressive but more impressive is the feeling invested in what almost inevitably slips through time’s fingers. Anyone wondering where the Whitmanesque impulse has gone need look no further.”—Baron Wormser, former poet laureate, state of MaineFlynn’s prose at every turn is crisp and evocative; he has a gift for description of cities, landscapes and characters – the latter seem so real one could almost touch them. I have for years enjoyed his short stories, poems and translations, and I’m delighted he has brought his considerable powers to a wonderfully vivid collection that crackles with energy and insight.-- Geoffrey Clark, author of Wedding In OctoberThere’s something dazzling about how Flynn evokes beauty and isolation, tragedy and triumph, in language that sings and begs us to sing along, too.-- Alyson Hagy, author of BoletoThe work is concrete, seductive, and dramatic in its intensity – drawing the reader in.-- Jack Smith, author of IconFlynn is an author who pays attention to the details. Vivid and engaging, it’s a pleasure to add Off To The Next Wherever to my shelf.-- Kristen-Paige Madonia, author of Fingerprints of You

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      Moments Between Cities - John Michael Flynn

      RIPE

      Ground fog whitens the window

      into a threat of early winter.

      One hawk submerges,

      its cree a spear

      swapping majesty for vigilance.

      Silver the slow haunt

      of its rising echo

      stray barren sun

      ghosting the corn.

      TWILIGHT ON THE NIAGARA RIVER

      Given to effortless waters

      our long wet kisses

      freeing flocks of gulls in silhouette.

      Magenta eddies in that broad river

      stitching day and night together

      as our hands caressed the skies

      of all the places we’d been.

      A loner downriver savored his last Sunday

      cigar, fishing dusk water

      for smallmouth and perch,

      envy behind the rumple of his tilted cap

      as he watched us peel ourselves

      down to children again.

      When we took time to stop kissing

      our eyes looked back at him with guilt

      low clouds above the current suggesting lavender

      as he blushed and smoked and worked his reel.

      You giggled shyly as the

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