Yesterday I featured the 10 “Most-Read” posts of “…on Anything, Really” from 2015, only one of which was a poem—Frankie McMillan’s “at night my dead mother appears wanting soup”  featuring at No. 8, overall.

But for the past five years Tuesday has been poetry day, so I’ve decided to  honour the Muses of poetry (Calliope, Erato, and Polyhymnia) with the 10 most-read poetry posts. You already know the first one from yesterday, but the others are:
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1. July 14 — “at night my dead mother appears wanting soup” by Frankie McMillan

at night my dead mother appears wanting soup

I search the town for ox tails
even the movie houses …
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2. June 30  — “Neutrinos” by Janis Freegard

“Millions of elementary particles race though the glass rooster’s
transparent body, from the sun, from the sun. Tau neutrinos,
electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos …”
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3. March 3 — “Angela Carter” by Tim Jones

“And then your portrait on the back
so neutral and complete
standing full-length …”
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4. September 15 — “Castle Rock” by Helen Lowe

“Rotating in mid-air,
suspended between blue above,
bleached tussock below …”
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5. April 21 — “The quiet life at Glenfinnan: 1877, Runs 458/ 468 ” by Robynanne Milford

“By the East Matukituki in a shieling picket fenced with currants
gooseberries, oats and ducks, Mrs MacPherson, her heirlings, and
Forty walls of deadfall water incessant cascade drowning …”
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6. February 10 — “Breathing You In” by David Gregory

“From up here it looked
as if the harbour’s lungs inhaled
the fog in through the headlands;
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7. May 5 — “Garden peas (Mendel’s Law, 1866)” by Helen Bascand, 1929 – 2015

'To come across an uncut fold in a new book
.....is not extraordinary. The reader simply
.....splits open the pages.'*

…………..Gregor Mendel
…………..in the orangery
…………..splits the pods of peas …”
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8. January 20 — “Heat” by Helen Lowe

“Birds wheel, raucous
on the cool air
that will shortly burn away…”
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9. July 28 — “Wind” by Eileen Moeller

“It is snow blood
coursing through
the roots of light …”
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10. May 12 — The Minotaur to Theseus by Catherine Fitchett

“Never trust a woman.
You don’t need her magic
ball of thread. She wants it to entangle you …”
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So there you have it, the 10 “most-read” poems from 2015. Needless to say, I was very glad to have a couple of mine feature in such good company.

I think, looking ahead, that for now I shall continue to keep Tuesday as my poetry day, although without the Tuesday Poem Hub as an anchor I may have to cast around for a favorable wind or pilot star.