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1bebac1172b0100b	The Help I Need Is Not Available Here	Alli Warren	I need help with long term hope I need help with the dawn of war and achieving my new year's resolutions This praise song and the problem of pornography structures this praise song as speaking placement I need help moving my chickens I need help with girl problem my dog, like, keeps marking the wrong areas? ...	[ "S3", "S6" ]	[ "S3-4" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality" ]
eec824eb9d293217	Thy Brother’s Blood	Jones Very	I have no Brother,—they who meet me now Offer a hand with their own wills defiled, And, while they wear a smooth unwrinkled brow, Know not that Truth can never be beguiled; Go wash the hand that still betrays thy guilt; Before the spirit’s gaze what stain can hide? Abel’s red blood upon the earth is spilt, And by thy t...	[ "S3", "S5" ]	[]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Religion" ]	[]
0195412959976a89	What Light Destroys	Andrew Hudgins	Today I’m thinking of St. Paul—St. Paul, who orders us, Be perfect. He could have said, Touch your elbow to your ears, except that if you broke your arm, then snapped your neck, you might could manage it. The death inside the flawed hard currency of what we touch bamboozles us, existing only for that flaw, that...	[ "S2", "S5", "S8" ]	[ "S5-3" ]	[ "Nature", "Religion", "Relationships" ]	[ "Religion/Faith & Doubt" ]
1819abbceb004937	Walkative, Talkative	Alfred Starr Hamilton	When those are the walkative stars That talked to the immediate prisoners themselves When those are the talkative stars That walked along the narrow sledge pathways Yet those are lines to another star That were to have been led for changelings Around a dark dreambox of another kind That houses our more talkative...	[ "S2", "S5" ]	[ "S2-9", "S5-8" ]	[ "Nature", "Religion" ]	[ "Nature/Stars, Moons, & Space", "Religion/The Spiritual" ]
4d86851227369e4d	Timbre	Gabriel Gomez	I can’t tell you I had climbed for hours on ledges and crawled through gaps in the earth. My hands negotiating through the teeth of the palisade lipped under the vineyard of temperate skies. And I can’t tell you that I came onto a ledge within the shelter of a granite roof, ceaselessly carved by centuries of dri...	[ "S1", "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S1-6", "S6-3", "S10-2" ]	[ "Love", "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Love/Realistic & Complicated", "Arts & Sciences/Language & Linguistics", "Living/Coming of Age" ]
5aeb4a1696630c32	Aubade	Tom Sleigh	Lathe of the ocean. Perpetual Motion machine of the waves. Everything still Being turned and shaped to a shape nobody Foresees: Ten years ago, was it, when we Walked that shore, too earnest and sheepish To hold hands? The wind cutting through our clothes Cleansed and burned, the chill off the Atlantic An ache we...	[ "S1", "S6", "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S1-5", "S1-6", "S8-6", "S10-5" ]	[ "Love", "Living", "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Love/New Love", "Love/Realistic & Complicated", "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Relationships/LGBTQ+" ]
b67aa9367b429572	The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2	Alexander Pope	Not with more glories, in th' etherial plain, The sun first rises o'er the purpled main, Than, issuing forth, the rival of his beams Launch'd on the bosom of the silver Thames. Fair nymphs, and well-dress'd youths around her shone, But ev'ry eye was fix'd on her alone. On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Wh...	[ "S3", "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S3-4", "S8-4" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality", "Relationships/Friendship" ]
b98ecd6c9f407934	A Parking Lot in West Houston	Monica Youn	Angels are unthinkable in hot weather except in some tropical locales, where from time to time, the women catch one in their nets, hang it dry, and fashion it into a lantern that will burn forever on its own inexhaustible oils. But here—shins smocked with heat rash, the supersaturated air. We no longer believe ...	[ "S2", "S3" ]	[ "S2-2", "S2-10", "S3-1", "S3-7" ]	[ "Nature", "Social Commentaries" ]	[ "Nature/Weather", "Nature/Summer", "Social Commentaries/Cities & Urban Life", "Social Commentaries/Popular Culture" ]
15df8247b9a81d17	Saguaro	Brenda Hillman	Often visitors there, saddened by lack of trees, go out to a promontory. Then, backed by the banded sunset, the trail of the Conquistadores, the father puts on the camera, the leather albatross, and has the children imitate saguaros. One at a time they stand there smiling, fingers up like the tines of a fork...	[ "S2", "S8", "S9" ]	[ "S8-3", "S9-5", "S9-7" ]	[ "Nature", "Relationships", "Activities" ]	[ "Relationships/Family & Ancestors", "Activities/Sports & Outdoor Activities", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
a4eaaa73cfe711c4	Planting the Sand Cherry	Ann Struthers	Today I planted the sand cherry with red leaves— and hope that I can go on digging in this yard, pruning the grape vine, twisting the silver lace on its trellis, the one that bloomed just before the frost flowered over all the garden. Next spring I will plant more zinnias, marigolds, straw flowers, pearly everlas...	[ "S2", "S6", "S7" ]	[ "S2-3", "S2-4", "S2-8", "S6-5" ]	[ "Nature", "Living", "Time & Brevity" ]	[ "Nature/Fall", "Nature/Winter", "Nature/Plants & Fungi", "Living/Mourning" ]
378c80fe0948e1e0	Saint’s Day Triolet: Saint Anthony	Deborah Paredez	When no one else would listen, Saint Anthonypreached seaward, his words fishnet for the lostsouls of the heretics. Caught up in despair, we pleato the one who will listen: Saint Anthony,please return Tía’s teeth or the misplaced key to our bolted hopes. Patron retriever of all we’ve tossed when no one else would. Liste...	[ "S5", "S8" ]	[ "S5-2", "S8-5" ]	[ "Religion", "Relationships" ]	[ "Religion/Christianity", "Relationships/Home Life" ]
b5a1bc5cbc6ba44e	End of Winter	Louise Glück	Over the still world, a bird calls waking solitary among black boughs. You wanted to be born; I let you be born. When has my grief ever gotten in the way of your pleasure? Plunging ahead into the dark and light at the same time eager for sensation as though you were some new thing, wanting to express yourselve...	[ "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S6-7", "S10-5" ]	[ "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Living/Parenthood" ]
53b3030ed3e57bc7	Please, Not That Again	William Trowbridge	How burdensome they seemed, wartime oldies that could drive our parents teary: “I’ll Be Seeing You,” with its hint of being swept off in a global riptide; or the shaky follow-up of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” followed by a shakier “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else But Me),” “Comin’ in on a Win...	[ "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S6-3", "S10-3" ]	[ "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Music", "Living/Coming of Age" ]
630afd206f88dfbf	The City, with Elephants	Indran Amirthanayagam	The elephants of reckoning are bunches of scruff men and women picking up thrown out antennae from the rubbish bins of the city to fix on their tubular bells and horn about by oil can fires in the freezing midnight of the old new year We ride by their music every hour in cabs on trains hearing the pit pat ...	[ "S3", "S9" ]	[ "S3-2", "S9-7" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Activities" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Class & Labor", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
5c8b44f25bc0a90a	Revenant	Meena Alexander	This disease has come backWith frills and furbelows.You must give your whole life to poetryOnly a few survive if that— Poems I mean, paper crumpledShades of another water— Far springs are what you long for,Listening for the slow drip of chemicals Through a hole in your chest.If you were torn from meI could not bear ...	[ "S2", "S6", "S7", "S10", "S11" ]	[ "S2-1", "S6-4", "S6-6", "S10-6", "S11-2" ]	[ "Nature", "Living", "Time & Brevity", "Arts & Sciences", "Mythology & Folklore" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Poetry & Poets", "Mythology & Folklore/Ghosts & the Supernatural", "Nature/Spring", "Living/Death & Dying", "Living/Health & Illness" ]
5ecf12c0d78e4b2f	Dominion Over the Larger Animal	Sophie Cabot Black	How many times I have providedFor your death; the apple turned one wayThen the other, an arrangement made, The softer ground. To hold your head As if this mattered, to say what I thinkEssential into your ear,To watch the eye look everywhere to findWhat it does not know it looks for.To fasten you down in the one placeWh...	[ "S2", "S6" ]	[ "S2-5", "S6-4" ]	[ "Nature", "Living" ]	[ "Nature/Animals", "Living/Death & Dying" ]
c9580f3f5631c796	Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot	Alexander Pope	Neque sermonibus vulgi dederis te, nec in præmiis spem posueris rerum tuarum; suis te oportet illecebris ipsa virtus trahat ad verum decus. Quid de te alii loquantur, ipsi videant, sed loquentur tamen. (Cicero, De Re Publica VI.23) ["... you will not any longer attend to the vulgar mob's gossip nor put your trust in h...	[ "S3", "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S8-4", "S10-6" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Poetry & Poets", "Relationships/Friendship" ]
66c90b11d5416d27	Walking	Thomas Traherne	To walk abroad is, not with eyes, But thoughts, the fields to see and prize; Else may the silent feet, Like logs of wood, Move up and down, and see no good Nor joy nor glory meet. Ev’n carts and wheels their place do change, But cannot see, though very strange The glory that is by; ...	[ "S2", "S5", "S9", "S10" ]	[ "S5-4", "S9-5", "S9-7", "S10-5" ]	[ "Nature", "Religion", "Activities", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Religion/God & the Divine", "Activities/Sports & Outdoor Activities", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
a7c7100996113042	Anniversaries	Thomas McGrath	for Don and Henrie Gordon Forty-odd years ago— Headlines in the snow— The jobless scrawled a text for mutineers; Then history seemed sane, Though Franco sailed for Spain And Hitler swore to live a thousand years. Now Progress, his machine, Makes water out of wine; With loaves and paper stuffs the multitude; F...	[ "S3", "S4", "S6", "S7", "S8" ]	[ "S3-11", "S4-1", "S8-7" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Living", "Time & Brevity", "Relationships" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict", "History & Politics/Money & Economics", "Relationships/Marriage & Companionship" ]
3f30dcf91fc18afc	Breadwinning for Birds	Alli Warren	They pay me to lift the ball off the bat touch the slender hand and slip beneath the taut band I plant bulbs and mulch the mound I hone a group of black birds I do the simplest thing In unison with the trees people move as the sun moves He calls a seagull an eagle and I agree Across the pond they say I will...	[ "S2", "S9" ]	[ "S2-8", "S9-5" ]	[ "Nature", "Activities" ]	[ "Nature/Plants & Fungi", "Activities/Sports & Outdoor Activities" ]
0dc8264d5efdda21	Crochet	Jan Mordenski	Even after darkness closed her eyes  my mother could crochet.  Her hands would walk the rows of wool  turning, bending, to a woolen music.The dye lots were registered in memory:  appleskin, chocolate, porcelain pan,  the stitches remembered like faded rhymes:  pineapple, sunflower, window pane, shell.Tied to our lives ...	[ "S8" ]	[ "S8-3" ]	[ "Relationships" ]	[ "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
d68e9ad1145612d1	Nothing But Color	Ai	for Yukio Mishima I didn’t write Etsuko, I sliced her open. She was carmine inside like a sea bass and empty. No viscera, nothing but color. I love you like that, boy. I pull the kimono down around your shoulders and kiss you. Then you let it fall open. Each time, I cut you a little and when you leave, I ta...	[ "S6" ]	[ "S6-4" ]	[ "Living" ]	[ "Living/Death & Dying" ]
cc83ccb001a5e06b	Locate	Ken Chen	If all the dead exist in the underworld, does the underworld occur outside of time, what does that mean for your father, through what magic will you locate your father who has only just arrived, has always only just departed, only just deported, did you don a suit and loiter on the highway your hands gripping a giant g...	[ "S3", "S4", "S5", "S6", "S7", "S8", "S11" ]	[ "S5-8", "S8-3", "S11-2" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Religion", "Living", "Time & Brevity", "Relationships", "Mythology & Folklore" ]	[ "Mythology & Folklore/Ghosts & the Supernatural", "Religion/The Spiritual", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
ea9ae04eeca6eb7a	Little Fugue	John Peck	An apple paring curled from the knife wetly down my thumb— and what I had failed to do rightly touching that life next to mine, wearing late afternoon’s numb luminosity, impaled me. A hunter knee-deep in salt marsh, whom Anton Chekov might have set there and then left, back to doctoring, or ...	[ "S9" ]	[ "S9-1" ]	[ "Activities" ]	[ "Activities/Eating & Drinking" ]
f348ea8a6b973cd5	from The Testament of John Lydgate	John Lydgate	Beholde, o man! lyft up thyn eye and see What mortall peyne I suffre for thi trespace. With pietous voys I crye and sey to the: Beholde my woundes, behold my blody face, Beholde the rebukes that do me so manace, Beholde my enemyes that do me so despice, And how that I, to reforme the to grace, W...	[ "S5", "S6" ]	[ "S5-2", "S6-4" ]	[ "Religion", "Living" ]	[ "Religion/Christianity", "Living/Death & Dying" ]
db782139443e0b1c	A Child is Something Else Again	Yehuda Amichai	A child is something else again. Wakes up in the afternoon and in an instant he's full of words, in an instant he's humming, in an instant warm, instant light, instant darkness. A child is Job. They've already placed their bets on him but he doesn't know it. He scratches his body for pleasure. Nothing hurts yet. ...	[ "S6", "S7", "S10" ]	[ "S6-7", "S10-5" ]	[ "Living", "Time & Brevity", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Living/Parenthood" ]
712e12f1e3af7853	The Menage	Carl Rakosi	Up stand six yellow jonquils in a glass/ the stems dark green, paling as they descend into the water/ seen through a thicket of baby’s breath, “a tall herb bearing numerous small, ...	[ "S2" ]	[ "S2-8" ]	[ "Nature" ]	[ "Nature/Plants & Fungi" ]
dc2f25ac6f0b47ef	Station	Maria Hummel	Days you are sick, we get dressed slow, find our hats, and ride the train.We pass a junkyard and the bay,then a dark tunnel, then a dark tunnel.You lose your hat. I find it. The trainsighs open at Burlingame,past dark tons of scrap and water.I carry you down the black steps.Burlingame is the size of joy:a race past bak...	[ "S6" ]	[ "S6-6" ]	[ "Living" ]	[ "Living/Health & Illness" ]
02550404cfaf77bf	I Looked for Life and Did a Shadow See	James Galvin	Some little splinter Of shadow purls And weals down The slewed stone Chapel steps, Slinks along The riverrock wall And disappears Into the light. Now ropy, riffled, Now owlish, sere, It smolders back To sight beneath A dwarfish, brindled tree That chimes and sifts And resurrects In something’s sweet An...	[ "S2", "S8" ]	[ "S8-3" ]	[ "Nature", "Relationships" ]	[ "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
d1056471db79a300	Makin’ Jump Shots	Michael S. Harper	He waltzes into the lane ’cross the free-throw line, fakes a drive, pivots, floats from the asphalt turf in an arc of black light, and sinks two into the chains. One on one he fakes down the main, passes into the free lane and hits the chains. A sniff in the fallen air— he stuffs it through the chains ridin...	[ "S9" ]	[ "S9-5" ]	[ "Activities" ]	[ "Activities/Sports & Outdoor Activities" ]
a15c0b8280884d65	A Symmetry	Ari Banias	The magnolia before it blooms stands bare as a statue from antiquity or a shaved puss, it flowers first then greens. A pissed off dyke climbs into the branches to be held by an ancient indifference and both were me. Yet it’s possible I am a short bald man. That I am neither a big-bosomed wide-hipped pretty no...	[ "S2", "S3", "S8" ]	[ "S2-8", "S3-4", "S8-6" ]	[ "Nature", "Social Commentaries", "Relationships" ]	[ "Nature/Plants & Fungi", "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality", "Relationships/LGBTQ+" ]
ebd779d111aee28c	Suitcase Song	Albert Goldbarth	John-O was given a key to the apartment. The deal was this: if Phil died suddenly, and John-O heard, he would rush on over, enter the apartment, leave unseen with Phil’s brown suitcase, and secretly pitch it into the mounded deeps of the city dump. Simply, there were things that Phil didn’t want to hurt his famil...	[ "S2", "S6", "S8" ]	[ "S2-7", "S6-4", "S6-6", "S8-3" ]	[ "Nature", "Living", "Relationships" ]	[ "Nature/Landscapes & Pastorals", "Living/Death & Dying", "Living/Health & Illness", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
a26ec0ecfeded752	Squirrel Problem	Zachary Schomburg	I watch a squirrel get run over by a car on my walk to work. She is lying dead in the street and still has an acorn in her little hands. I am amazed at how she is able to hold on to her acorn after being tumbled like that, after bouncing so high off the street. I walk over to the squirrel and see that her face is blown...	[ "S2", "S6", "S9" ]	[ "S2-5", "S6-4", "S6-5", "S9-4" ]	[ "Nature", "Living", "Activities" ]	[ "Nature/Animals", "Living/Death & Dying", "Living/Mourning", "Activities/Jobs & Working" ]
49e62047081cfc67	From a Window	Charlotte Mew	Up here, with June, the sycamore throws Across the window a whispering screen; I shall miss the sycamore more, I suppose, Than anything else on this earth that is out in green. But I mean to go through the door without fear, Not caring much what happens here ...	[ "S2", "S6", "S7" ]	[ "S2-8" ]	[ "Nature", "Living", "Time & Brevity" ]	[ "Nature/Plants & Fungi" ]
1b90ddb58763034f	The Moss Garden	C. Dale Young	Somewhere outside Kyoto's line, she said, they stumbled across the famous garden of moss, the smallish sign so plain it could have been overlooked. No temple, only moss. So they entered the walkway with little expectation, the silence creeping in, much like expectation. Instead of leading them to the garden direc...	[ "S5" ]	[ "S5-7", "S5-8" ]	[ "Religion" ]	[ "Religion/Other Religions", "Religion/The Spiritual" ]
78609c238e2e977f	Origin	Atsuro Riley	[ Tetsu schools her son ] Bloomed no intention not no notionof a child but out you came. What some got natural motheryknow-to-do unborn in me. I been brought from cross the water far—every bone a alien never not. (No soil no roots yall clinch so hardfor home gon’ be my home.) My flint mama was no lamp to menor we...	[ "S3", "S6", "S8" ]	[ "S3-4", "S6-7", "S8-1", "S8-3", "S8-5" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living", "Relationships" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality", "Living/Parenthood", "Relationships/Breakups & Separation", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors", "Relationships/Home Life" ]
bf29ca14330930f1	The Sight	David Orr	My Uncle Fletcher, Our county seer, Bestowed his gifts On my no-good cousin Jeff, Who had a feeling About nearly everything. "That guy of hers . . ." "Those fucking queers . . ." He'd say, giving me the eye, Which was the same eye That could gaze upon A yellow froth of newborns, And know the cockerels From the pullets.	[ "S8", "S11" ]	[ "S8-3", "S11-2" ]	[ "Relationships", "Mythology & Folklore" ]	[ "Mythology & Folklore/Ghosts & the Supernatural", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
3025a92a111e57df	Life's Work	Rae Armantrout	1 Did I say I was a creature of habit? I meant the opposite. I meant behavior is a pile of clothes I might or might not wear. Before all the sowing and reaping could go on for centuries, before the calendar, I must have been convinced that my movements were both mandated and blessed. 2 I've never be...	[ "S6", "S7" ]	[]	[ "Living", "Time & Brevity" ]	[]
b2bf4443f8cd47a1	Lambert Hutchins	Edgar Lee Masters	I have two monuments besides this granite obelisk: One, the house I built on the hill, With its spires, bay windows, and roof of slate; The other, the lake-front in Chicago, Where the railroad keeps a switching yard, With whistling engines and crunching wheels, And smoke and soot thrown over the city, And the crash of ...	[ "S3", "S4", "S6" ]	[ "S4-1" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Living" ]	[ "History & Politics/Money & Economics" ]
474f8f97ebe4ccf9	The First Woman	Aleida Rodríguez	She was my Sunday school teacher when I was just seven and eight. He was the newly hired pastor, an albino, alarming sight with his transparent eyelashes and mouse-pink skin that looked like it might hurt whenever she caressed his arm. Since Eva was her name, to my child’s mind it made great sense that she sho...	[ "S5", "S6", "S9" ]	[ "S5-2", "S6-3", "S6-8", "S9-6" ]	[ "Religion", "Living", "Activities" ]	[ "Religion/Christianity", "Living/Coming of Age", "Living/Youth", "Activities/Study & Knowledge" ]
b7c28f91dbb244a7	Laundry	Bruce Smith	Not even the cops who can do anything could do this— work on Sunday picking up dirty and delivering clean laundry in Philadelphia. Rambling with my father, get this, in a truck that wasn’t even our own, part ambulance, part bullet, there wasn’t anything we couldn’t do. Sheets of stigmata, macula of love, vomit an...	[ "S3", "S4", "S6", "S8", "S9", "S10" ]	[ "S3-1", "S4-1", "S8-3", "S9-4", "S10-5" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Living", "Relationships", "Activities", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Social Commentaries/Cities & Urban Life", "History & Politics/Money & Economics", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors", "Activities/Jobs & Working" ]
6405148447bd6e87	First Coca-Cola	Rodney Jones	Maybe a sin, indecent for sure—dope, The storekeeper called it. Everyone agreed That Manuel Lawrence, who drank Through the side of his mouth, squinting And chortling with pleasure, was hooked; Furthermore, Aunt Brenda, Who was so religious that she made Her daughters bathe with their panties on, Had dubbed it ...	[ "S6", "S9", "S10" ]	[ "S9-1", "S10-5" ]	[ "Living", "Activities", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Activities/Eating & Drinking" ]
5212a9b0ab0c8b64	The Rebuttal	John Lee Clark	An erasure of Lydia Huntley Sigourney’s “On Seeing the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl, Sitting for Her Portrait” Guide, passion, catch what Hath no speech. Unknown Joys, power, and meditation’s Unfolding sky. Feeling draws Heart and wildering language Still without speech to Mind. Philosophy fails to Sway this futu...	[ "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S6-6", "S10-4", "S10-5" ]	[ "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Painting & Sculpture", "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Living/Health & Illness" ]
246cf14ff7ef0236	Pinocchios	Clare Pollard	i Marionette means little Mary. Think of Mary Shelley, a jointed doll lifted from her mother’s unstitched interior, that fist-shaped hole, the future mother of three dead children and Frankenstein’s monstrous electric baby, hater of creators. Think of all the porn-dollies moving their mouths up and down on wood and th...	[ "S3", "S6" ]	[ "S3-4", "S6-4" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality", "Living/Death & Dying" ]
5c1e7d09bf1c446d	Much Better Than a Goat	Gerald Stern	Much better than a goat it was to dropan anarchist from a Park Row windowbecause he wouldn’t confess to federal agents.He fell to his death while sitting on the windowsillholding a pamphlet close to his eyes and maybewaving his arm in appreciation, and no oneheard him screaming — they were wearing earmuffsor just they ...	[ "S3", "S4", "S6" ]	[ "S3-1", "S3-6", "S6-4" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Living" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Cities & Urban Life", "Social Commentaries/Incarceration & Justice", "Living/Death & Dying" ]
d503628c02ebb6a4	Chat Room	Paul Foster Johnson	P. entered a third space from which he could watch time pass instead of walking to the monastery in the middle of the night. His opaque sexuality derived from the absence of a guarantee that his person would remain intact. He recognized this in himself and we stared at the pylons regressing into the lackluster ...	[ "S3", "S6", "S8", "S9" ]	[ "S3-7", "S8-4", "S9-3" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living", "Relationships", "Activities" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Popular Culture", "Relationships/Friendship", "Activities/Indoor Activities" ]
6c5b21ab18478aff	The Exhibition Was Very Beautiful	Sandra Beasley	The Traveler’s Vade Mecum, line 907 The exhibition opened on a rainy Thursday, with cello suite. They hung the paintings to be viewed from both front and back. Luna moths flapped their great green sail-wings.Stingrays flapped their great gray sail-wings. Those visiting the exhibition were encouraged to touch. Captions...	[ "S9" ]	[ "S9-7" ]	[ "Activities" ]	[ "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
34165f47113b0bf9	Limits	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Who knows this or that? Hark in the wall to the rat: Since the world was, he has gnawed; Of his wisdom, of his fraud What dost thou know? In the wretched little beast Is life and heart, Child and parent, Not without relation To fruitful field and sun and moon. What art thou? His wicked eye Is cruel to thy cruelty.	[ "S2", "S10" ]	[ "S2-5", "S10-5" ]	[ "Nature", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Nature/Animals" ]
c76acf103f93d977	An Institute Is Closing	Ish Klein	I’m not in with this mystery. Somebody steady me. Cool ocean breezes don’t make me laugh. I’m in with noisy metal little nils. A million apologies. I must have made more. You were sensitive, you needed them ...	[ "S2", "S8" ]	[ "S2-6" ]	[ "Nature", "Relationships" ]	[ "Nature/Bodies of Water" ]
b886d92984f24fed	Earth's Answer	William Blake	Earth rais'd up her head, From the darkness dread & drear. Her light fled: Stony dread! And her locks cover'd with grey despair. Prison'd on watry shore Starry Jealousy does keep my den Cold and hoar Weeping o'er I hear the Father of the ancient men Selfish father of men Cruel, jealous, selfish fear Can delight Chain'd...	[ "S2", "S5", "S10" ]	[ "S2-1", "S2-8", "S10-5" ]	[ "Nature", "Religion", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Nature/Spring", "Nature/Plants & Fungi" ]
2338d14031a636a0	Mirabeau Bridge	Guillaume Apollinaire	Under Mirabeau Bridge the river slips away And lovers Must I be reminded Joy came always after pain The night is a clock chiming The days go by not I We're face to face and hand in hand While under the bridges Of embrace expire Eternal tired tidal eyes The...	[ "S6", "S7", "S8" ]	[]	[ "Living", "Time & Brevity", "Relationships" ]	[]
baf192d21878a11c	Dead Girl Gang Bang	Cate Marvin	Though I can’t recall your last name now, Howie, I’ve been penciling myself in to your way back then, way back when, in your gangbangland, she was loose and gone, struggling up on a limb to raise herself off from your bed, but lost, fell back, let the all of you in again. Said just trying to get out your room wa...	[ "S3", "S6" ]	[ "S3-4", "S6-4" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality", "Living/Death & Dying" ]
a5e8e3b3484d0f5c	The Origin of Order	Pattiann Rogers	Stellar dust has settled. It is green underwater now in the leaves Of the yellow crowfoot. Its vacancies are gathered together Under pine litter as emerging flower of the pink arbutus. It has gained the power to make itself again In the bone-filled egg of osprey and teal. One could say this toothpick grasshopper ...	[ "S2" ]	[ "S2-5", "S2-8", "S2-9" ]	[ "Nature" ]	[ "Nature/Animals", "Nature/Plants & Fungi", "Nature/Stars, Moons, & Space" ]
be6f8cb772bc399d	The Barrel-Organ	Alfred Noyes	There’s a barrel-organ carolling across a golden street In the City as the sun sinks low; And the music's not immortal; but the world has made it sweet And fulfilled it with the sunset glow; And it pulses through the pleasures of the City and the pain That surround the singing organ like a large eterna...	[ "S2", "S10" ]	[ "S2-8", "S10-3" ]	[ "Nature", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Music", "Nature/Plants & Fungi" ]
7b19fa089f1e581f	The Little Turtle	Vachel Lindsay	There was a little turtle. He lived in a box. He swam in a puddle. He climbed on the rocks. He snapped at a mosquito. He snapped at a flea. He snapped at a minnow. And he snapped at me. He caught the mosquito. He caught the flea. He caught the minnow. But he didn't catch me.	[ "S2", "S8" ]	[ "S2-5", "S8-8" ]	[ "Nature", "Relationships" ]	[ "Nature/Animals", "Relationships/Pets & Domestic Animals" ]
90928212180e3baa	A Reverie	Joanna Baillie	Beside a spreading elm, from whose high boughs Like knotted tufts the crow’s light dwelling shows, Where screened from northern blasts, and winter-proof, Snug stands the parson’s barn with thatched roof; At chaff-strewed door where, in the morning ray, The gilded motes in mazy circles play, And sleepy Comrade in the su...	[ "S1", "S3", "S6", "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S1-4", "S1-9", "S3-4", "S6-3", "S10-5" ]	[ "Love", "Social Commentaries", "Living", "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Love/Infatuation & Crushes", "Love/Unrequited Love", "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality", "Living/Coming of Age" ]
b11f40a2205da2b0	Other Fugitives and Other Strangers	Rigoberto González	The nightclub’s neon light glows red with anxiety as I wait on the turning lane. Cars blur past, their headlights white as charcoal. I trust each driver not to swerve. I trust each stranger not to kill me and let me cross the shadow of his smoky path. Trust is all I have for patrons at the bar: one man offers me...	[ "S1", "S3", "S8" ]	[ "S1-1", "S8-6" ]	[ "Love", "Social Commentaries", "Relationships" ]	[ "Love/Desire & Erotic Love", "Relationships/LGBTQ+" ]
20730c93e5370896	Song	Aphra Behn	O Love! that stronger art than wine, Pleasing delusion, witchery divine, Wont to be prized above all wealth, Disease that has more joys than health; Though we blaspheme thee in our pain, And of thy tyranny complain, We are all bettered by they reign. What reason never can bestow We to this useful passion owe; Lo...	[ "S1" ]	[ "S1-6", "S1-7" ]	[ "Love" ]	[ "Love/Realistic & Complicated", "Love/Romantic Love" ]
2db0bf1554f7ba0b	Epilogue	Steve Gehrke	For my daughter	[ "S6" ]	[ "S6-4", "S6-5", "S6-7" ]	[ "Living" ]	[ "Living/Death & Dying", "Living/Mourning", "Living/Parenthood" ]
42562edf8441b9c7	All Trains Are Going Local	Timothy Liu	Slowing down your body enough to feel. Thought you were at a standstill but you were only slowing down enough to feel the pain. There are worse things than running to catch the train, twisting your ankle, the afternoon fucked.Running to get to or away from? the stranger who helps you up wants to know, you who ar...	[ "S6", "S9" ]	[ "S9-7" ]	[ "Living", "Activities" ]	[ "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
6b328eb95dc69d8b	The Evening After	Claire Trévien	After James Merrill One evening, tired of games and each other,we spent watching our reflections on a screen— four in a two-seater, angling like sardines.For a dog’s hair I’d milked the wine, utteredwords like, “that’s the cure!” swiveledthe puckering glass like a mock-dandy,blood slushing at my temples, until the spi...	[ "S8" ]	[ "S8-5" ]	[ "Relationships" ]	[ "Relationships/Home Life" ]
cad0aab8513c2e1d	In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 3	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	O Sorrow, cruel fellowship, O Priestess in the vaults of Death, O sweet and bitter in a breath, What whispers from thy lying lip? "The stars," she whispers, "blindly run; A web is wov'n across the sky; From out waste places comes a cry, And murmurs from the dying sun: "And al...	[ "S2", "S6" ]	[ "S6-5" ]	[ "Nature", "Living" ]	[ "Living/Mourning" ]
c71dcf5d33141753	Radiante (s)	Juan Felipe Herrera	Radiante, 1967, by Olga Albizu Jestered ochre yellow my umber Rothko divisions my Brooklyns with Jerry Stern black then oranged gold leaf & tiny skulls perforations Dada sugar bread of Oaxacan ecstasy Lorca’s green horse the daffodil head corruptions of the State in tenor exhalation saxophonics blossomings rouge...	[ "S3", "S4", "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S3-8", "S10-4", "S10-6" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Painting & Sculpture", "Arts & Sciences/Poetry & Poets", "Social Commentaries/Race & Ethnicity" ]
9c6d1a4ffd0ead75	Album — A Runthru	Clark Coolidge	I look in that one kind of dwindled. And in this, look up, a truncheon in my fist, tin pot on my head, the war. My father, I’m looking at, is my age then and thin, his pants streak to the ground, shadows of rosevines . . . His father sits beneath a cat. Here the shadow has more flavor than my trains, elbows on li...	[ "S6", "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S8-3", "S10-2" ]	[ "Living", "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Language & Linguistics", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
5b89e501d31d6554	Seele Im Raum	Randall Jarrell	It sat between my husband and my children. A place was set for it—a plate of greens. It had been there: I had seen it But not somehow—but this was like a dream— Not seen it so that I knew I saw it. It was as if I could not know I saw it Because I had never once in all my life Not seen it. It was an eland. An el...	[ "S6", "S8" ]	[ "S6-1", "S8-3", "S8-5", "S8-8" ]	[ "Living", "Relationships" ]	[ "Living/Aging", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors", "Relationships/Home Life", "Relationships/Pets & Domestic Animals" ]
c2f495980a99c360	Curandera	Pat Mora	They think she lives alone on the edge of town in a two-room house where she moved when her husband died at thirty-five of a gunshot wound in the bed of another woman. The curandera and house have aged together to the rhythm of the desert. She wakes early, lights candles before her sacred statues, brews tea of ...	[ "S2", "S5", "S6", "S11" ]	[ "S2-7", "S5-7", "S6-1" ]	[ "Nature", "Religion", "Living", "Mythology & Folklore" ]	[ "Nature/Landscapes & Pastorals", "Religion/Other Religions", "Living/Aging" ]
42c2422817ede1d5	West Topsham	John Engels	1 In prologue let me plainly say I shall not ever come to that discretion where I do not rage to think I grow decrepit, bursten-bellied, bald and toothless, thick of hearing, tremulous of leg, dry and rough-barked as a hemlock slab, the soft rot setting in and all my wheezy dreams the tunnelling of beetles in a...	[ "S1", "S2", "S6", "S8" ]	[ "S2-7" ]	[ "Love", "Nature", "Living", "Relationships" ]	[ "Nature/Landscapes & Pastorals" ]
7daf70aabdcc5b08	Embarrassment	Brenda Shaughnessy	It’s a wave, isn’t it? Not a particle. A fresh, cool wave, so why am I flushed and not washed? Why dirtier than before? 1. Etymology On the subject of our names. They’re so embracing, thinking they’re all us and swallowing themselves into our nausea. Yet we never quite die on the spot. We put off being what w...	[ "S1", "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S1-6", "S10-9" ]	[ "Love", "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Love/Realistic & Complicated", "Arts & Sciences/Sciences" ]
d0ee2fe3bc5d291a	The Archer	Vicki Hearne	The sudden thuck of landing The arrow made in the mark Of the center lifted and Loosened his skin. And so he Stood, hearing it like many Thrusting breaths driven to ground. He abandoned the long light Flight of arrows and the slow Parabolas bows dream of For the swifter song beyond Flesh. Song of moments. The...	[ "S6", "S9" ]	[ "S9-5" ]	[ "Living", "Activities" ]	[ "Activities/Sports & Outdoor Activities" ]
e62054bb0374435a	What the Leaf Told Me	Ronald Johnson	Today I saw the word written on the poplar leaves. It was	[ "S2" ]	[ "S2-8" ]	[ "Nature" ]	[ "Nature/Plants & Fungi" ]
96666ae2f755b3e6	Watching the Perseids	Isabel Rogers	The parrot, Einstein of birds, who can count and reason calmly in our tongue while outliving us, disdains the ostrich. For all its sprint records, the ostrich will be remembered for hiding from the truth. You can’t outrun stupid. We the people hold some truths to be self-evident: our magnificent brain in a bod...	[ "S2", "S6" ]	[ "S2-5", "S2-9" ]	[ "Nature", "Living" ]	[ "Nature/Animals", "Nature/Stars, Moons, & Space" ]
200229d04e44ea30	The Vocation	Sheryl Luna	Lit with strange carpentry magic — they build time-shares in her head. They carve names deep in wood, erect beams of metal to hold up the invincible defense of a bad history. They mourn what’s subjective. They are shutters closed. Sometimes I imagine such men in flip-flops with fat towels draped over confident s...	[ "S3", "S5" ]	[ "S3-4", "S3-6", "S3-8", "S5-8" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Religion" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality", "Social Commentaries/Incarceration & Justice", "Social Commentaries/Race & Ethnicity", "Religion/The Spiritual" ]
0cad0690aaa752fa	What the Frost Casts Up	Ed Ochester	A crown of handmade nails, as though there were a house here once, burned, where we’ve gardened for fifteen years; the ceramic top of an ancient fuse; this spring the tiny head of a plastic doll— not much compared to what they find in England, where every now and then a coin of the Roman emperors, Severus or Co...	[ "S3", "S4", "S6", "S7" ]	[]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Living", "Time & Brevity" ]	[]
41706fff0b7ae2f3	Leaves	Gerald Stern	He was cleaning leaves for one at a timewas what he needed and a minute before the twobrown poodles walked by he looked at the stripped-down treesfrom one more point of view and thought they werepart of a system in which the dappled was foreignfor he had arrived at his own conclusion and that wasfor him a relief even i...	[ "S2", "S6" ]	[ "S2-8" ]	[ "Nature", "Living" ]	[ "Nature/Plants & Fungi" ]
77103e7fce1a4a33	The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to be Bilingual	Ada Limón	When you come, bring your brown- ness so we can be sure to please the funders. Will you check this box; we’re applying for a grant. Do you have any poems that speak to troubled teens? Bilingual is best. Would you like to come to dinner with the patrons and sip Patrón? Will you tell us the stories that make us ...	[ "S3", "S8" ]	[ "S3-8", "S8-3" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Relationships" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Race & Ethnicity", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
0d5b14c3c7757964	Book 1, Epigram 39: Ad librum suum.	Thomas Bastard	My little book: who will thou please, tell me? All which shall read thee? No that cannot be. Whom then, the best? But few of these are known. How shall thou know to please, thou know'st not whom? The meaner sort commend not poetry; And sure the worst should please themselves for thee: But let them pass, and set b...	[ "S3", "S10" ]	[ "S3-7", "S10-6", "S10-8" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Poetry & Poets", "Arts & Sciences/Reading & Books", "Social Commentaries/Popular Culture" ]
82c90453fe91bf34	The Witnesses	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	In Ocean's wide domains, Half buried in the sands, Lie skeletons in chains, With shackled feet and hands. Beyond the fall of dews, Deeper than plummet lies, Float ships, with all their crews, No more to sink nor rise. There the black Slave-ship swims, Freighted with human forms, Whose fettered, fleshless...	[ "S2", "S3", "S4", "S9" ]	[ "S2-6", "S3-8", "S4-1", "S9-7" ]	[ "Nature", "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Activities" ]	[ "Nature/Bodies of Water", "Social Commentaries/Race & Ethnicity", "History & Politics/Money & Economics", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
732761c1f5b1302e	A Maiden	Elizabeth Willis	When I found your face on a pillow of leaves you had already erased it. A nest so heavy can stay in the heavens only by reversal. By this law the knees are laced with abandon. I said to the young man. If watching is the manufacturer, and I lose you what angel takes the place of a dowry or distance in this leaf a...	[ "S1" ]	[ "S1-3", "S1-7" ]	[ "Love" ]	[ "Love/Heartache & Loss", "Love/Romantic Love" ]
e50005eeff8f37ac	“I want you to leave your body now” he tells me	Wayne Holloway-Smith	his voice not so much hypnotic as reachingfor the hypnotic but I leave it anyway sitting in the upright chair of the windowless room for a place higher up that’s not quite the windowless room— though I’m aware of my body’s particular kind of breathing down there dressed in my favorite shirt and somehow up here ...	[ "S6", "S11" ]	[ "S6-4", "S6-8", "S11-2" ]	[ "Living", "Mythology & Folklore" ]	[ "Mythology & Folklore/Ghosts & the Supernatural", "Living/Death & Dying", "Living/Youth" ]
2cb17b6c24413494	Before Christmas	Landis Everson	Almost the first reindeer shipped North by boxcar from Lapland but a toy model got there first. A dwarf invented reindeer on his own. He was Santa’s favorite. He hadn't known they already existed. This discouraged dwarf was close to taking his life but Santa showed up encircled by snow. He said, “I will us...	[ "S1", "S8", "S11" ]	[ "S1-6", "S8-3" ]	[ "Love", "Relationships", "Mythology & Folklore" ]	[ "Love/Realistic & Complicated", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
fac6c813459bcfea	The Boom and After the Boom	Alice Lyons	The Shannon when it washesthe shoreline in the wakeof a cruiser susurrusesexactly like the Polishlanguage you hear in lidlon Friday evenings, 7 pmpayday. That’s whatGerry says. •The river surface offersspace to the song:hammer taps of Latviansand Poles nailing planksof a deck. The place...	[ "S3", "S4" ]	[ "S3-2", "S3-8", "S4-1" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Class & Labor", "Social Commentaries/Race & Ethnicity", "History & Politics/Money & Economics" ]
d3de87d22cf36b5e	Makris Is Fallen	Sarah Lindsay	The dog came back, grinning and smelling of carrion, and her husband behind it, stride and gestures too large for the house. His field voice, cracking, declared a wider kingdom, and the name of a fallen city, not theirs this time. From outside the roar and shrill of celebration poured in. He drew near in a rank cloud, ...	[ "S1", "S2", "S3", "S6", "S8" ]	[ "S2-7", "S3-4", "S6-6" ]	[ "Love", "Nature", "Social Commentaries", "Living", "Relationships" ]	[ "Nature/Landscapes & Pastorals", "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality", "Living/Health & Illness" ]
bc93a5201bc00c79	Smoke	Théophile Gautier	Over there, trees are sheltering A hunchedback hut... A slum, no more... Roof askew, walls and wainscoting Falling away... Moss hides the door. Only one shutter, hanging... But Seeping over the windowsill, Like frosted breath, proof that this hut, This slum, is living, breathing still. Corkscrew of smoke... A w...	[ "S3", "S5" ]	[ "S5-4" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Religion" ]	[ "Religion/God & the Divine" ]
e405906ddd229f1a	Sonnet 1	Sir Philip Sidney	Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show, That she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain,— I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine, her wits to ente...	[ "S1", "S10" ]	[ "S1-8", "S10-8" ]	[ "Love", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Love/Classic Love", "Arts & Sciences/Reading & Books" ]
5a2a37795c7ff442	La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad	John Keats	Highlight Actions Enable or disable annotations O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedgesedge Grasslike or rushlike plant that grows in wet areas. has withered from the lake, And no birds sing. O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, So haggardhaggard Wild looking a...	[ "S1", "S6", "S8", "S11" ]	[ "S1-1", "S1-3", "S1-4", "S1-7", "S1-8", "S1-9", "S6-5", "S11-1", "S11-2" ]	[ "Love", "Living", "Relationships", "Mythology & Folklore" ]	[ "Love/Desire & Erotic Love", "Love/Heartache & Loss", "Love/Infatuation & Crushes", "Love/Romantic Love", "Love/Classic Love", "Love/Unrequited Love", "Mythology & Folklore/Fairy-tales & Legends", "Mythology & Folklore/Ghosts & the Supernatural", "Living/Mourning" ]
4dcd98f9836a8f60	"I saw a man pursuing the horizon"	Stephen Crane	I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I was disturbed at this; I accosted the man. “It is futile,” I said, “You can never —” “You lie,” he cried, And ran on.	[ "S6", "S9" ]	[ "S9-7" ]	[ "Living", "Activities" ]	[ "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
3635385417cee694	Horse Horse Hyphen Hyphen	Marilyn Chin	Border Ghazals I. I hate, I love, I don’t know how I’m biracial, I’m torn in two Tonight, he will lock me in fear In the metal detector of love Rapeflowers, rapeseeds, rapiers A soldier’s wry offerings He will press his tongue Into my neighing throat I can speak three dialects badly I want you now behind the...	[ "S3", "S4", "S8" ]	[ "S3-8", "S3-11", "S8-3" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Relationships" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict", "Social Commentaries/Race & Ethnicity", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
24fc7aaa2f28e15c	Psalm to Be Read with Closed Eyes	D. Nurkse	Ignorance will carry me through the last days,the blistering cities, over briny riversswarming with jellyfish, as once my fathercarried me from the car up the tacked carpetto the white bed, and if I woke, I never knew it.	[ "S6", "S8" ]	[ "S6-1", "S6-7", "S8-3" ]	[ "Living", "Relationships" ]	[ "Living/Aging", "Living/Parenthood", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
a9b4be8b6315c3ea	Assault to Abjury	Raymond McDaniel	Rain commenced, and wind did. A crippled ship slid ashore. Our swimmer’s limbs went heavy. The sand had been flattened. The primary dune, the secondary dune, both leveled. The maritime forest, extracted. Every yard of the shore was shocked with jellyfish. The blue pillow of the man o’ war empty in the afterlight...	[ "S2", "S3", "S4" ]	[ "S2-10" ]	[ "Nature", "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics" ]	[ "Nature/Weather" ]
e30ebd547e7f40ee	Hanuman Puja	Rajiv Mohabir	For Kazim Sunrise ocher marks the river’s forehead, wet dhotis betray supplicants bare as opaque windows, their secrets. It’s no secret, my petals wreath my crown in marigold, a glow I’ve nursed into nova when I cracked, from drought, my pericarp, thirsty for God. I have always been a honey man, coat of a ...	[ "S5" ]	[ "S5-4", "S5-7" ]	[ "Religion" ]	[ "Religion/God & the Divine", "Religion/Other Religions" ]
db01ff5a8918d6c9	Kaftan	Lucy Tunstall	My mother has taken me to Paddington Station. We are inside a whale. My father sleeps all day. When he wakes the cloisters come for him. My sister can sit on her hair. At night, a man sits on her bed. Her bed is covered in oak leaves. The sleeves of my mother’s kaftan trail in the dirt. We keep forgetting it’s n...	[ "S6", "S8" ]	[ "S6-8", "S8-3" ]	[ "Living", "Relationships" ]	[ "Living/Youth", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
a8c8b29385f20838	From “Coosa”	Jennifer Elise Foerster	To be a bride of my own lamentation I wear a dress not of time’s poisoned quills but feathers of discontent — kingfishers ghosting in cornstalks, my field of frozen flutes. The edge of descent, digression’s highway brings a particulate ash to my mouth, starry metals of the meadow’s cold snap, ravens in the sycam...	[ "S5", "S6", "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S5-8", "S6-4", "S8-7", "S10-2" ]	[ "Religion", "Living", "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Language & Linguistics", "Religion/The Spiritual", "Living/Death & Dying", "Relationships/Marriage & Companionship" ]
125a823e11221165	Poem For A Lady Whose Voice I Like	Nikki Giovanni	so he said: you ain’t got no talent if you didn’t have a face you wouldn’t be nobody and she said: god created heaven and earth and all that’s Black within them so he said: you ain’t really no hot shit they tell me plenty sisters take care better business than you and she said: on the third ...	[ "S3" ]	[ "S3-8" ]	[ "Social Commentaries" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Race & Ethnicity" ]
ecc987cc1ea3efbe	Mutoscope	Elizabeth Spires	Swirl and smash of waves against the legs and crossgirders of the pier, I have come to Brighton, come as the fathers of our fathers came, to see the past’s Peep Show. On two good legs, on one, they came, veterans and stay-at-homes of the Great War, all casualties, to stroll the West Pier’s promenade, past bands,...	[ "S6", "S7" ]	[]	[ "Living", "Time & Brevity" ]	[]
9379a7eb3cc4754e	Orfeo	Frank Lima	To my friends Each hair is a poem I gave my son Each hair is my allowance from the universe Each hair is a sunspot on someone's broken heart The secrets that emerge from the psyche have no floor They will get off on any floor when you least expect them to They wear shadows that look like my mother She could stop...	[ "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S8-3", "S8-4", "S8-5", "S10-6" ]	[ "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Poetry & Poets", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors", "Relationships/Friendship", "Relationships/Home Life" ]
7e86471948f47977	Washington McNeely	Edgar Lee Masters	Rich, honored by my fellow citizens, The father of many children, born of a noble mother, All raised there In the great mansion-house, at the edge of town. Note the cedar tree on the lawn! I sent all the boys to Ann Arbor, all the girls to Rockford, The while my life went on, getting more riches and honors— Resting und...	[ "S6", "S8" ]	[ "S6-7", "S8-3" ]	[ "Living", "Relationships" ]	[ "Living/Parenthood", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
9f71398bae2f1ba7	Swim, Girl, Swim	J. Patrick Lewis	for Gertrude Ederle As Europe woke from sleep, Young Trudy Ederle At Cap Gris Nez in France Dived into a daunting sea. Many had tried to make This superhuman swim— Thirty-five punishing miles. Chances, at best, were slim. When Fury found the waves, Far from the western shore, Her trainer shouted, "Let's turn...	[ "S2", "S9" ]	[ "S2-6", "S9-5" ]	[ "Nature", "Activities" ]	[ "Nature/Bodies of Water", "Activities/Sports & Outdoor Activities" ]
2cd05a3c793092e7	Schools	Paula Tatarunis	All day they stream past, petitioners for understanding, accolade, critique. I read them all, a vast anthology of jumbled genres on a common theme: affliction. So I parse, interpret, scan. I graph dysrhythmias, dysmetrias; I eavesdrop on caesuras for unsaid murmurs, gallops, rubs, snaps, flutters, clicks. The p...	[ "S9", "S10" ]	[ "S9-6", "S10-6" ]	[ "Activities", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Poetry & Poets", "Activities/Study & Knowledge" ]
355deee0118d2d2e	Self-Portrait after Paul Morphy’s Stroke	Josh Wild	Paul lost his footing, turned out a spectacular corkscrew.It looked like he was acting out a series of renga in the air. The general theme was prevenient grace.But the white rim broke his form, and he hit the bathtub water like a big charred bough of a tree.A semicircle of his shoes—Oxfords, monk straps,bluchers, a lon...	[ "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S6-4", "S10-6" ]	[ "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Poetry & Poets", "Living/Death & Dying" ]
d10af5c7535d61e5	On the Beach at Night Alone	Walt Whitman	On the beach at night alone, As the old mother sways her to and fro singing her husky song, As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universes and of the future. A vast similitude interlocks all, All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets, All distances of place how...	[ "S2" ]	[ "S2-6", "S2-9" ]	[ "Nature" ]	[ "Nature/Bodies of Water", "Nature/Stars, Moons, & Space" ]

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