Published Poems

Mark Scarborough, host of the lyric poetry podcast Lyric Life, reads and analyzes Tamara Madison’s poem What Now Is Like

Click the links below to read each poem … 

Mothers

One Thanksgiving

Orchid Cactus

Petrichor

Prelude

Russian Scrabble

Saudade

Single Life

Squirrel World

Staying With My Sister

Summer

Sweet Potato

Tailless

Tasting Pine

The Great Sea

The Labor it Takes

The Man on the Moon

The New Room

The Return of the Subjunctive

The Wood Duck’s Home

To a Grieving Friend

To a Hornworm, I

To a Hornworm, II

To Swimming

Treehouse

True Companion

Vehicle

Waiting for the Scythe

What Now is Like

Who Are We to Think?