July 2020 Vol 7 No 6
Poems by Firestone Feinberg
Editor's Note: This issue of Verse-Virtual is published as a tribute to the unique vision and kindness
of Firestone Feinberg (1951-2020), founder and friend. Poems are listed by the month they appeared, with titles/first lines
below them. May his memory be a blessing, just as his life was.
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June 2014
Apples are the best of fruits... There comes a magic with the night... The editor... July 2014 No Cow... The lilacs act as if there were nothing... A river that flows without end... August 2014 My songs remain unheard None can tell the human heart A word is but a silhouette September 2014 Conversation broken You walk on An ordinary thing this chair October 2014 I'll make a paper airplane (to Lucas) The boy of words who never had spoken So very tired is the man November 2014 A pear cannot an apple be A day unlike another this O Teacher! A poem certainly has a nose Simple are the basic hues December 2014 the pain of it Come times when talk is out of place January 2015 Another year to the past belongs Understanding is a stranger The boy of words who never had spoken February 2015 The truth is often hidden Although you go Near Death March 2015 An Ordinary Conversation No Dinosaurs in Dallas Why We're Here May 2015 American Casualties June 2015 And along the way were shining souls July 2015 This is the one and only show September 2015 After a Visit to the Cardiologist October 2015 Once your words in ink are laid November 2015 The clock sat smugly on the shelf December 2015 Thanksgiving in the Emergency Room |
January 2016
A chance comes with the sunrise The day like others came and went The Poet Wars February 2016 Verses are untimely guests Experience — a teacher A Poem Perhaps March 2016 So very tired is the man April 2016 Poetry's Fork The Parts of a Poem May 2016 The lilacs act as if there were nothing June 2016 Ethereal Immigrants July 2016 The Song of Everyone August 2016 August is a dreadful month September 2016 Apples are the best of fruits November 2016 November —to my dear Susan— March 2017 A Living Villanelle June 2017 If words won't come August 2017 Threads November 2017 The truth is often hidden December 2017 Winter —for Susan— January 2018 Email to Dick Allen Two Days after His Death February 2018 The Tourist June 2018 None can tell the human heart July 2018 After School July 2019 This is the one and only show |