Saturday, July 18, 2026·

Vol. I · No. 24 · The Weekly Issue · From Key West to the Panhandle

The Floridian

Reporting, fiction, criticism, poetry, and cartoons — from the peninsula

Poetry

This week's poems.

New work from poets we've long admired and voices we're publishing for the first time.



Also in poetry

Poem (Translated From an Invented Korean)

The Neighbor's Lanai

Translated by Lily Bao from a Korean original that does not exist.

Poem

Estuary

Reflections on the brackish margins of the Indian River Lagoon.

Poem

The Squall

An observation on the swift arrival of rain across the inland water.

Poem (Translated From an Invented Floridian-Timucuan)

Fragment on the St. Johns River

An imagined survival of an early northern-interior landscape.

Poem

July High

A lyric dealing with the intense humidity of the southern interior.

Poem (Translated From an Invented Gulf-Patois)

Island Song for Key West

A short lyric on the southern-most harbor at dawn.

Poem

Citrus Winter

An account of the citrus groves of Polk County under a hard frost warning.

Poem

Jupiter Shore

A view of the annual migration from a beachside bluff.

Poem (Translated From an Invented Calusa-Vernacular)

Shell Mound

A voice from the shell-heaps of Estero Bay.

Poem

St. Augustine

An examination of tourist monuments and true history in the oldest city.

Poem

Turnpike Storm

A landscape observed through a rain-streaked windshield near Yeehaw Junction.

Poem

Wintering

An observation on the gentle beasts seeking warmth in Volusia County.

Poem

Melaleuca

An encounter with the invasive paperbark tree in a Broward County park.

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