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Alumni Patrick Donnelly’s poem “Cradle Song,” featured today on Poetry Daily:

CRADLE-SONG
When I signed for her ashes
I received her, as once
            she received me
into her lyric hold
            and let me ride anchor there,
smaller than the letter alif....[Keep Reading]…
“Cradle Song” is from Patrick’s recently published collection Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin (2012, Four Way Books).