O at the Edges

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Poem Up at Spare Parts Literary Magazine

Posted on June 9, 2025 by robert okaji

My poem “Moonlight at Noon (Afterlife)” is live at Spare Parts Literary Magazine. Many thanks to poetry editor Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi and the Spare Parts team for taking this piece.

18 thoughts on “Poem Up at Spare Parts Literary Magazine”

R. Christopher Hickok on June 9, 2025 at 9:48 am said:

So good. You can get beauty from a sad pen and make it stick on the page. And on the one who reads it.

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- robert okaji on June 9, 2025 at 10:13 am said:
  
  Thanks, Rob. I’m feeling good today, which is all I can ask for. One day at a time, and all that.
  
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Andrew McDowell on June 9, 2025 at 10:16 am said:

Congrats.

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- robert okaji on June 13, 2025 at 1:47 pm said:
  
  Thanks, Andrew.
  
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  - Andrew McDowell on June 13, 2025 at 3:14 pm said:
    
    You’re welcome.
    
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Deborah J. Brasket on June 9, 2025 at 12:49 pm said:

Your poem, sad, lovely, and poignant. Thank you for sharing.

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- robert okaji on June 13, 2025 at 1:48 pm said:
  
  You are so kind, Deborah. Thank you.
  
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Liz Gauffreau on June 9, 2025 at 2:15 pm said:

Congratulations on the publication of your poem, Bob. I was very moved by it.

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- robert okaji on June 13, 2025 at 1:49 pm said:
  
  Thank you, Liz. That is all I could ask for!
  
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  - Liz Gauffreau on June 13, 2025 at 8:23 pm said:
    
    You’re welcome, Bob!
    
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Jazz Kendrick on June 9, 2025 at 4:08 pm said:

One reason to write poems – to capture a current perception, experience for subsequent reflection. Lives are filled with near-deaths … prior ones in reflection help me get through current set-backs. Yours have been more significant than mine, and your current aliveness all the more amazing … I take your poems as “attitude lessons from a master”. THANK you for being so open.

& congrats on this poem being published.

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- robert okaji on June 13, 2025 at 1:58 pm said:
  
  Thank you, Jazz. If my words have offered someone/anyone a smidgen of comfort, then I have been successful.
  
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daninmaya on June 11, 2025 at 7:35 pm said:

Can’t Like something you don’t like, try to get a grip on a slippery page. No use asking why? But still I do. You have the words, you send them out so well. They find a home. My home (as many others I’m sure)

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- robert okaji on June 13, 2025 at 2:07 pm said:
  
  I keep trying to write. Somedays the words flow. On others, well…
  
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Jilanne Hoffmann on June 11, 2025 at 7:50 pm said:

Favorite line: “Why holds no meaning to victims of the inevitable.” Pretty universal. I’m glad you’re feeling better today. I also noticed that you’re sharing space with J.I. Kleinberg, another favorite poet.

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Frank Hudson on June 15, 2025 at 11:33 pm said:

I’ll mostly just hitting like on a couple other excellent comments on this close and tightly observed poem tonight — and then pausing to think of you now for a short while tonight before sleep.

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Pleasant Street on June 20, 2025 at 7:58 pm said:

Supporting you both from a distance, your friend ‘Rose’

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- robert okaji on June 22, 2025 at 6:21 pm said:
  
  Thank you, P.S.
  
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