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 About Ray Greenblatt

Ray Greenblatt is an editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal and teaches a “Joy of Poetry” course at Temple University-OLLI. His most recent book of poetry is From an Old Hotel on the Irish Coast (Parnilis Media, 2023).

Moving Words

I’m going to hop on this poem
let it move like a rhino
leather seat worn beyond years
eye of extinct planet
honk its horn contemporarily
tippity galumph.

To the Coast

No longer narrow lanes
twisting through green hills of trees
frilly ripple of stream,
but a sharp exhalation
loud exclamation

Survival

each footprint in the snow
is a stroke on the wall—
each move
contemplated
calibrated
painful to all joints—