Articles by Julian O. Long

Poem

• Nineteenth (June 14, 2021) poem unrhymed

  Long has taught school at the University of North Texas, North Carolina State University, and Saint Louis University. He is now retired and lives with his wife, Kathleen Farrell, in Saint Louis, Missouri, writes a blog entitled "Out the Backroom Window," and plans to expand Backroom Window Press into a small press publishing venture.

• Farm Road Entropy (July 19, 2021) poem unrhymed

  "...Harvest and waste of passage...

• Zapper (August 16, 2021) poem unrhymed

  "...wondered if that sound was the last thought..."

• After implosion (September 20, 2021) poem unrhymed

  "...Fifty years is a building's life, said the college pres..."

• End of the World (October 18, 2021) poem unrhymed

  "...What's wrong will never now be right..."

• Anthropocene (November 15, 2021) poem unrhymed

  "He was once my best friend..."

• Springtime 2019 (December 13, 2021) poem unrhymed

  "...be time enough and time enough to praise this one more springtime..."

• Long Homestead in Winter (January 17, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "...No one living knows its history now..."

• The Alpine (February 14, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "...Friday nights with whole families dancing..."

• Silverback (March 21, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "...we'll cleverly hide away in swamps..."

• Chain of Rocks (April 18, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "...I'd like to walk it one day..."

• Aphasia Remembered (May 30, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "...panic as though the world has just ended..."

• Pure Onionhood (June 27, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "...finding no heart there..."e that doesn

• 27 Club (July 25, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "...he was quoted saying it had been his only real home...."

• Greek to Us (August 29, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "...maybe because you had no idea who Isadora Duncan was..."

• Wind in the Willow (September 26, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "Big easy has Bourbon Street..."

• Moonshadow (October 24, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "...hopin’ light will stay the night..."

• Searching for Amédé (November 21, 2022) poem unrhymed

  "...singing always his own blues, singing always to one person...."

• Penguin Provender (December 19, 2022) poem

  "...Otherwise he’d freeze his toes..."

• Johann's Boy (January 9, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...case open in front of him already filling with passersby’s pocket change..."

• Oil Patch, 1980 (February 20, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...wind never moves their cattlemen’s hats..."

• Against Melancholy (March 27, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...sitting on someone’s porch at night eating ice cream..."

• Animal Counsel (April 24, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...I’m going off with the weather and not come back..."

• May Day (May 8, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...Down from the house wild iris, lawns rife with bluebonnets..."

• Earthrise (June 19, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...our yet a while still lovely cerulean planet..."

• Almost Ghazal for Them Cowbirds (July 17, 2023) poem rhymed

  "I’ve watched wild birds more times than I can count..."

• Microaggressions (August 21, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...you smile again at your Texan image of old fartdom..."

• In the Name of Heaven (September 25, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...What are the dreams of music, where do they lead..."

• Towards an Unaesthetic (October 23, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...palpable and mute as a globed fruit..."

• More Than Macaronic (November 20, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...Praise with him be to speakers of dead and dying languages..."

• Epiphany at the St. Louis Art Museum (December 18, 2023) poem unrhymed

  "...Their rich robes sparkled with gold..."

• Memo to Angels in Search of a Lawyer (January 22, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...there are collar pins, tie pins, rolling and bowling pins..."

• Art Crimes (February 26, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...my crime against the inarticulate..."

• Anniversary Conversation (March 18, 2024) poem unrhymed

  "...poems that hide in the crinkles of your eyes..."