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December 2025 Poetry Feature #2: Lauren Delapenha, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Robert Cording, and Rachel Hadas

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By Lauren Delapenha, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Robert Cording, Rachel Hadas
| The Common
New Work from LAUREN DELAPENHA, AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL, ROBERT CORDING, and RACHEL HADAS Table of Contents: —Lauren Delapenha, “Exodus” —Aimee Nezhukumatathil, “What They Didn’t Tell Me about Motherhood” —Robert Cording, “A Sun” —Rachel Hadas, “Matsinger Forest” Exodus By Lauren Delapenha The Times article is about the president’s mind and Xerox-based enterprises like Kodak, Blockbuster, dead-end jobs, and marriages, and I am so glad the article mentions marriages given my recent apophatic...
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Polka

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By Robert Cording
| The Common
By ROBERT CORDING They could have danced straight out of a Brueghel painting into our basement, partially finished in fake wood paneling and a dropped ceiling that still left some plumbing exposed— my mother and her mother, four heart attacks and two open-heart surgeries between them, breathing heavily, but still going, arms and hands dipping and rising, their feet skipping and hopping, as if a speeded-up polka was a form of time travel that could bring back the years before their lives went...
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A Day Revisited

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By Robert Cording
| The Common
Issue 28, Issue 28 Poetry, Poetry By ROBERT CORDING I’m standing in the exact spot of this photograph, looking at the past— my middle son, still alive, lying on the rug at my feet in my oldest son’s house. On his wide chest, his niece, weeks old, sleeps, adrift perhaps in the familiarity of the heart’s steady beat, her memory of him formed mostly by this photograph. It’s late afternoon, the same time as it is now, a last square of sunlight on the living room floor.
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