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1c7d83412512adfa | Olives | Donald Hall | “Dead people don’t like olives,” I told my partners in eighth grade dancing class, who never listened as we fox-trotted, one-two, one-two. The dead people I often consulted nodded their skulls in unison while I flung my black velvet cape over my shoulders and glowered from deep-set, burning eyes, wa... | [
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7f987695c521976b | Pre-Text | Marie Ponsot | (for Douglas, at one)
Archaic, his gestures
hieratic, just like Caesar or Sappho
or Mary’s Jesus or Ann’s Mary or Jane
Austen once, or me or your mother’s you
the sudden baby surges to his feet
and sways, head forward, chin high,
arms akimbo, hands dangling idle,
elbows up, as if winged.
The features of his fa... | [
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f63a3588bbf1cc01 | First Divorce | Diane Gilliam Fisher | There was a bucket, there was a wall,
there was a woman and a man.
The woman carried the bucket
and the man was the wall.
There was no place else to go.
It was a long, long time
for there was much to carry
and there was much to wall.
There was a path ran straight
from the well to the hole in the wall.
There w... | [
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391d9f86911ed07a | My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun (764) | Emily Dickinson | My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -
In Corners - till a Day
The Owner passed - identified -
And carried Me away -
And now We roam in Sovreign Woods -
And now We hunt the Doe -
And every time I speak for Him
The Mountains straight reply -
And do I smile, such cordial light
Opon the Valley glow -
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9d68398997660c14 | The Pig | Roald Dahl | In England once there lived a big
And wonderfully clever pig.
To everybody it was plain
That Piggy had a massive brain.
He worked out sums inside his head,
There was no book he hadn’t read,
He knew what made an airplane fly,
He knew how engines worked and why.
He knew all this, but in the end
One question drov... | [
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c161c1584791ff83 | The Snake | William Matthews | A snake is the love of a thumb
and forefinger.
Other times, an arm
that has swallowed a bicep.
The air behind this one
is like a knot
in a child’s shoelace
come undone
while you were blinking.
It is bearing something away.
What? What time
does the next snake leave?
This one’s tail is ravelling
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bff85f5b87faaeff | The Academic Sigh | Russell Edson | Some students were stretching a professor on a medieval torture rack. He had offered himself to show them how an academic might be stretched beyond his wildest dreams like a piece of chewing gum.
And as they turned the wheel the professor was getting longer and longer.
Don’t make me too long, or I’l... | [
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c8c428ed534ee2ef | Wisdom | James McMichael | For the young man who would have
myrrh from a woman,
and cinnamon and aloes,
smoother than oil is her mouth. She flatters him with it.
Between her lips lies death.
The young man learns that as his bride he should instead have taken
Wisdom to him.
Wisdom is the words that figure her as
fear of the Lord.
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6188f4b3ffb0a36b | Let It Be Forgotten | Sara Teasdale | Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten,
Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold,
Let it be forgotten for ever and ever,
Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.
If anyone asks, say it was forgotten
Long and long ago,
As a flower, as a fire, as a hushed footfall
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16a2750911cb8682 | Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing | Robert Duncan | Was he then Adam of the Burning Way?
hid away in the heat like wrath
conceald in Love’s face,
or the seed, Eris in Eros,
key and lock
of what I was? I could not speak
the releasing
word. For into a dark
matter he came
and askt me to say what
I could not say. “I ..”... | [
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a3c134b98f7222d6 | Kora in Hell: Improvisations XIV | William Carlos Williams | XIV1
The brutal Lord of All will rip us from each other—leave the one to suffer here alone. No need belief in god or hell to postulate that much. The dance: hands touching, leaves touching—eyes looking, clouds rising—lips touching, cheeks touching, arm about . . . Sleep. Heavy head, heavy arm, heavy dream—: Of ... | [
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71c579a9b05adddd | Ralegh’s Prizes | Robert Pinsky | And Summer turns her head with its dark tangle
All the way toward us; and the trees are heavy,
With little sprays of limp green maple and linden
Adhering after a rainstorm to the sidewalk
Where yellow pollen dries in pools and runnels.
Along the oceanfront, pink neon at dusk:
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4c7eca848fcb0c96 | Marrying the Hangman | Margaret Atwood | She has been condemned to death by hanging. A man
may escape this death by becoming the hangman, a
woman by marrying the hangman. But at the present
time there is no hangman; thus there is no escape.
There is only a death, indefinitely postponed. This is
not fantasy, it is history.
*
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a2137b118851fabc | I Forget the Date | Juan Felipe Herrera | I forget the date:
en route to Austin, Texas: soda on tray.
Women at the computer, mexicanas
learning to read and write at the same time,
a workshop, we exchange stories
the crossings:
Hidalgo
Texas
Sonora
Zacatecas
Chihuahua—I think of my father, for a moment—
I see him again, robust, alone, walks to the pa... | [
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6f2b9b30abb65d45 | On Gardens | Rick Barot | When I read about the gardendesigned to bloom only white flowers,I think about the Spanish friar who saw oneof my grandmothers, two hundred years removed, and fucked her. If you look at the word colony far enough, you see ittraveling back to the Latinof inhabit, till, and cultivate. Words that would have meant somethi... | [
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60ce2ca4209b372a | O Carib Isle! | Hart Crane | O Carib Isle!
The tarantula rattling at the lily’s foot
Across the feet of the dead, laid in white sand
Near the coral beach—nor zigzag fiddle crabs
Side-stilting from the path (that shift, subvert
And anagrammatize your name)—No, nothing here
Below the palsy that one eucalyptus lifts
In wrinkled shadows—mourns.... | [
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f68ad7cf7aef1f96 | The Morning Routine | Mark O'Brien | I tell my attendants,Right there,
When they rub me where it itches.
They rub for a few seconds, then move on,
There’s so much of it to wash,
“It” being me, a former person,
Now something that must be washed every day
In so little time.
Fifty minutes outside my breathing machine,
And all I can do is stare
As my... | [
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d94ad1bcd2499c28 | Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-Pox | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | FLAVIA. THE wretched FLAVIA on her couch reclin'd,
Thus breath'd the anguish of a wounded mind ;
A glass revers'd in her right hand she bore,
For now she shun'd the face she sought before.
' How am I chang'd ! alas ! how am I grown
' A frightful spectre, to myself unknown !
' Where's my Complexion ? where the radiant B... | [
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000293948ddd693f | Kosmos | Walt Whitman | Who includes diversity and is Nature, Who is the amplitude of the earth, and the coarseness and sexuality of the earth, and the great charity of the earth and the equilibrium also, Who has not look’d forth from the windows the eyes for nothing, or whose brain held audience with messengers for nothing, Who contains beli... | [
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302e127d2b31cdbc | Testament Scratched into a Water Station Barrel (Partial Translation) | Eduardo C. Corral | After Rita Dove
Apá, dying is boring. To pass las horas,I carveour last nameall over my body.
I try to recall the taste of Pablo’s sweat.Whiskey, no.Wet dirt, sí.I stuff Englishinto my mouth, spit out chingaderas.Have it your way.Home of the Whopper.Run
for the border. ¡Aguas! The mirrorbetrayed us.It erased your ... | [
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54f146c9e6f55254 | A Lecture upon the Shadow | John Donne | Stand still, and I will read to thee A lecture, love, in love's philosophy. These three hours that we have spent, Walking here, two shadows went Along with us, which we ourselves produc'd. But, now the sun is just above our head, We do those shadows tread, And to brave clearness all ... | [
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97b3bce814d24263 | Murderer [Part I] | Curzio Malaparte | I
The whole of human history … The whole of human history
seems to be the story of men who kill,
and of men who are killed;
of murderers who light their cigarettes
with trembling hands,
and of poor, unlucky kids staring into the eyes
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e467fea56df21102 | A Forsaken Garden | Algernon Charles Swinburne | In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland, At the sea-down's edge between windward and lee, Walled round with rocks as an inland island, The ghost of a garden fronts the sea. A girdle of brushwood and thorn encloses The steep square slope of the blossomless bed Where the weeds that grew ... | [
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b1abf82ff4c8c6b7 | Historical Disquisitions | Philip Whalen | Hello, hello, what to tell you was
The world's invisible
You see only yourself, that's not the world
although you are of it
Are you there
hello
why do you have your head in a sack?
a roony-bomb dream tank?
Why you got a banana in your ear?
You where?
Brown eyes ... | [
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3a6447a525a81ef9 | Missing Carnival | John Hennessy | O Venlo, Venlo, stedje van pleseer. This time
her body made him think of countryside,
some figure from his childhood, sun on scythe,
wind blowing shadows across the shining barley,
the milk-pail dented from use, the smell of leaf-mulch
and leather in the tack room. Soon she’d take bus
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413c70c120380fe2 | “I Came Out of Habitations Where Warmth Filled My Feet and Loins” –Rousseau | Calvin Bedient | living in actual ass under the stars Josie’s experiment
easy access to parking and bushes
the first few times I feel awful flattened myself against the wall
easy access to bulk movements of air
dear souls “open themselves up, enraptured, to the essence of all things”
marshmallow chimes blown on by a flamey wind
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69bfb8079b91813f | The helicopter, | Jean Valentine | The helicopter,
a sort of controlled silver leaf
dropped lightly into the clearing.
The searchlights swung, the little girl,
the little girl was crying, her mother, a girl herself,
was giving birth, the forest dropped birdseeds of milk.
Then the helicopter lifted away,
the mother rested.
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96708a28790101cd | Responding | Juliana Spahr | I
This is a place without a terrain a government that always
changes an unstable language. Even buildings disappear
from day to day.
[gendered pronoun] wanders in this place
[searching
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1d5fb20dbb3caafc | Prophetic Outlook | Ernest Hilbert | Crooks run the whole world, and the Dow just fell.
Crap rules the airwaves. All your best plans stall.
The air is dirty, and you don’t feel well.
Your wife won’t listen. Friends no longer call.
Sad songs from youth no longer cast a spell.
Cancer research has run into a wall.
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5972c571dcab6391 | The Dream of a Lacquer Box | Kimiko Hahn | I wish I knew the contents and I wish the contentsJapanese —like hairpins made of tortoiseshell or bonethough my braid was lopped off long ago,like an overpowering pine incenseor a talisman from a Kyoto shrine,like a Hello Kitty diary-lock-and-key,Hello Kitty stickers or candies,a netsuke in the shape of an octopus,tic... | [
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3f1f0b882e5bb403 | The Woman Who Cannot | Miller Oberman | The woman who cannot bring forth her child: go to a dead man’s grave and then step three times over the grave, and then say these words three times:
This is my cure for the loathsome late-birth
This is my cure for the bitter black-birth
This is my cure for the loathsome imperfect-birth
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86104631b23b6b9a | On the Welsh Language | Katherine Philips | If honor to an ancient name be due, Or riches challenge it for one that’s new, The British language claims in either sense Both for its age, and for its opulence. But all great things must be from us removed, To be with higher reverence beloved. So landskips which in prospects distant lie, With greater wonder draw the ... | [
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be517ae0dec03693 | The Rain Poured Down | Dan Gerber | My mother weeping in the dark hallway, in the arms of a man, not my father, as I sat at the top of the stairs unnoticed— my mother weeping and pleading for what I didn't know then and can still only imagine— for things to be somehow other than they were, not knowing what I would change, for, or to, or why, only that my... | [
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7b6aad81069af568 | The Late Wisconsin Spring | John Koethe | Snow melts into the earth and a gentle breeze
Loosens the damp gum wrappers, the stale leaves
Left over from autumn, and the dead brown grass.
The sky shakes itself out. And the invisible birds
Winter put away somewhere return, the air relaxes,
People start to circulate again in twos and threes.
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5054e50a4109f51d | spring song | Lucille Clifton | the green of Jesus
is breaking the ground
and the sweet
smell of delicious Jesus
is opening the house and
the dance of Jesus music
has hold of the air and
the world is turning
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7e4206f789618395 | People Who Died | Ted Berrigan | Pat Dugan……..my grandfather……..throat cancer……..1947.
Ed Berrigan……..my dad……..heart attack……..1958.
Dickie Budlong……..my best friend Brucie’s big brother, when we were
five to eight……..killed in Korea, 1953.
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e6a770051c7de5e0 | I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater | Mahmoud Darwish | I have a seat in the abandoned theater
in Beirut. I might forget, and I might recall
the final act without longing ... not because of anything
other than that the play was not written
skillfully ...
Chaos
as in the war days of those in despair, and an autobiography
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e801a908ed45bec0 | [Keen and lovely man moved as in a dance] | Lorine Niedecker | Keen and lovely man moved as in a dance
to be considerate in lighted, glass-walled
almost outdoor office. Business
wasn’t all he knew. He knew music, art.
Had a heart. “With eyes like yours I should think
the dictaphone” or did he say the flute?
His sensitivity—it stopped you.
And the neighbors said “She’s takin... | [
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f410c3ad518ab051 | from The Fatalist: “Come October, it's the lake not the border” | Lyn Hejinian | Come October, it’s the lake not the border
that has been redrawn. Thinking
about the event afterwards, I realize how remarkably well-prepared
the girls are. There don’t seem to be any slouches
among them. Please tell them I say hello and that we’ll need 14
for the green salad and 14 for the apple tarts between
wi... | [
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e34ade64ec6cfe01 | Apollo Musagetes | Matthew Arnold | Through the black, rushing smoke-bursts, Thick breaks the red flame; All Etna heaves fiercely Her forest-clothed frame. Not here, O Apollo! Are haunts meet for thee. But, where Helicon breaks down In cliff to the sea, Where the moon-silver'd inlets Send far their light voice Up the still vale of Thisbe, O speed, and re... | [
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a738eebadeae4ae1 | November | Maggie Dietz | Show's over, folks. And didn't October do
A bang-up job? Crisp breezes, full-throated cries
Of migrating geese, low-floating coral moon.
Nothing left but fool's gold in the trees.
Did I love it enough, the full-throttle foliage,
While it lasted? Was I dazzled? The bees
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33519f23b00e6bea | Grunge | Yusef Komunyakaa | No, sweetheart, I said courtly love.
I was thinking of John Donne's
"Yet this enjoys before it woo,"
but my big hands were dreaming
Pinetop's boogie-woogie piano
taking the ubiquitous night apart.
Not Courtney. I know "inflated tear"
means worlds approaching pain
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3c6d0e858e959270 | The Sun | Dan Chiasson | There is one mind in all of us, one soul,
who parches the soil in some nations
but in others hides perpetually behind a veil;
he spills light everywhere, here he spilled
some on my tie, but it dried before dinner ended.
He is in charge of darkness also, also
in charge of crime, in charge of the imagination.
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247546b843b21a8a | To the Harbormaster | Frank O'Hara | I wanted to be sure to reach you;
though my ship was on the way it got caught
in some moorings. I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart. In storms and
at sunset, with the metallic coils of the tide
around my fathomless arms, I am unable
to understand the forms of my vanity
or I am hard alee with my Poli... | [
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5302ebd100b917c1 | The Park | Harry Clifton | Because anyone sitting still attracts desire, Even this will not be given you, the park In June, the silence of a bench at eleven o’clock On a Monday morning, or four on a Thursday afternoon. Someone will drift toward you, unattached And lonely. The spell will be broken, the wrong word said. It is cool, but... | [
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5fd80e068087d847 | A Caged Bird | Sarah Orne Jewett | High at the window in her cage The old canary flits and sings, Nor sees across the curtain pass The shadow of a swallow’s wings. A poor deceit and copy, this, Of larger lives that mark their span, Unreckoning of wider worlds Or gifts that Heaven keeps for man. She gathers piteous bits and shreds, Th... | [
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21c7a48f58383ee3 | Asymmetries | Rae Armantrout | I’m thinking about you and you’re humming while cutting a piece of wood.I’m positive you aren’t thinking about me which is fine as long as youaren’t thinking about yourself. I know and love the way you inhabitthis house and the occasions we mutually create. But I don’t knowthe man you picture when you see yourself walk... | [
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c24e5ee2e91ffce7 | Mrs. Caldera's House of Things | Gregory Djanikian | You are sitting in Mrs. Caldera’s kitchen,
you are sipping a glass of lemonade
and trying not to be too curious about
the box of plastic hummingbirds behind you,
the tray of tineless forks at your elbow.
You have heard about the backroom
where no one else has ever gone
and whatever enters, remains,
refrigerator... | [
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84a0d215fc868a3d | At the Moment | Joyce Sutphen | Suddenly, I stopped thinking about Love,
after so many years of only that,
after thinking that nothing else mattered.
And what was I thinking of when I stopped
thinking about Love? Death, of course—what else
could take Love’s place? What else could hold such force?
I thought about how far away Death once
had see... | [
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809ca0841012c846 | Conriocht [Werewolf] | Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh | Chonac smólach marbh sa choillé seargtha ar an screablach.Bhíos ag déanamh trua denuair a tháinig madraí de rúidis thugadar ruathar fúmag snapadh, ag glamadh agus drant orthu. Uaimse do tháinig liúbhéic,gach bagairt is buille coise:Bhí ina bhúirchath eadrainn.Chorraigh na ba sna goirtis chuireadar leis an gcór allta.Th... | [
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eaa04141ded62792 | Eideolon, Book 3, Section 7 | H. D. | Was Helen stronger than Achilles even "as the arrows fell"? That could not be, but he recognised in her some power other than her legendary beauty.
He could name Helena,
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she was a lure, a light,
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d114ac3ac4199b74 | Stanzas for Music | Lord Byron (George Gordon) | There be none of Beauty's daughters
With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The charmed ocean's pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the lull'd winds seem dreaming:
And the midnight moon is weaving
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2d7dd6a364ca913b | For Edwin Wilson | A. R. Ammons | Did wind and wave design the albatross's wing, honed compliances: or is it effrontery to suggest that the wing designed the gales and seas: are we guests here, then, with all the gratitude and soft-walking of the guest: provisions and endurances of riverbeds, mountain shoulders, windings through of tulip poplar, grass,... | [
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451d27e0ce24a06e | I Have Been a Stranger in a Strange Land | Rita Dove | Life's spell is so exquisite, everything conspires to break it. Emily Dickinson
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8209b690d3cefcd6 | Not one more refugee death | Emmy Pérez | A river killed a man I loved,
And I love that river still
—María Meléndez
1.
Thousands of fish killed after Pemex
spill in el Río Salado and everyone
runs out to buy more bottled water.
Here, our river kills more crossers
than the sun, than the singular
heat of Arizona, than the ranchlands
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f84c1f0a184c18df | Sohrab and Rustum | Matthew Arnold | An Episode
AND the first grey of morning fill'd the east,
And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream.
But all the Tartar camp along the stream
Was hush'd, and still the men were plunged in sleep;
Sohrab alone, he slept not; all night long
He had lain wakeful, tossing on his bed;
But when the grey dawn stole into his tent... | [
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b8cc2bac32ac02f6 | The Mower against Gardens | Andrew Marvell | Luxurious man, to bring his vice in use,
Did after him the world seduce,
And from the fields the flowers and plants allure,
Where nature was most plain and pure.
He first enclosed within the gardens square
A dead and standing pool of air,
And a more luscious earth for them did knead,
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2bcb7f26553742d0 | Selective Service | Carolyn Forché | We rise from the snow where we’ve
lain on our backs and flown like children,
from the imprint of perfect wings and cold gowns,
and we stagger together wine-breathed into town
where our people are building
their armies again, short years after
body bags, after burnings. There is a man
I’ve come to love after thir... | [
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030ff51f5f76ffe8 | Visions | William E. Stafford | 1Once in Mexico an old man was
leading on a string—was it a cat?
And we saw it was a tarantula
sidling along in the dust, writing
a message from God for people who
thought they knew where creature-life ended.
2We came upon scenes like that,
the world back of a lurid pane of glass.
Like in Reno—they have emptied... | [
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52b036f1430a19a3 | Diorama | Atsuro Riley | The Blue Hole Summer Fair, set up and spread out like a butterfly pinned down on paper. Twin bright-lit wings, identically shaped (and fenced) and sized. This side holds the waffled-tin (and oven-hot) huts of the Home Arts Booths and Contests, the hay-sweet display-cages for the 4-H livestock, the streamer-hung dis... | [
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1d57ab76c8f1b7c0 | Little Boy Blue | Mother Goose | Little boy blue,
Come blow your horn,
The sheep's in the meadow,
The cow's in the corn.
But where is the boy
Who looks after the sheep?
He's under a haystack,
Fast asleep. | [
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16b941f623df967c | They Clapped | Nikki Giovanni | they clapped when we landed
thinking africa was just an extension
of the black world
they smiled as we taxied home to be met
black to black face not understanding africans lack
color prejudice
they rushed to declare
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d3eb6b2d2d9963b0 | I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You | Charles Olson | Off-shore, by islands hidden in the blood
jewels & miracles, I, Maximus
a metal hot from boiling water, tell you
what is a lance, who obeys the figures of
t... | [
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e5a2afa78ec76ae2 | Like a Real Flame | Melissa Broder | I want the hole in my ear to be quietAnd inside the hole in my ear to be quietAnd I want it to tell me what to doOr I will go to my lover’s mouthAnd say oh my quietI am comingAnd tell the quiet how its kingdom should be madeThough the quiet has already eaten meBecause the quiet loves meBut does the lover love meAnd why... | [
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640c24dc2a9ae8b3 | A Ballad of Death | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Kneel down, fair Love, and fill thyself with tears, Girdle thyself with sighing for a girth Upon the sides of mirth, Cover thy lips and eyelids, let thine ears Be filled with rumour of people sorrowing; Make thee soft raiment out of woven sighs Upon the flesh to cleave, Set pains therein and many a grievous thing, And ... | [
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fea3032f31323b4c | Permitted a Meadow | Dean Young | I like the blue pill best.
Just like a gladiola, its true flower
is invisible.
The rest is holy.
Not like in that Tintoretto
where no one knows god is dying,
just the usual jingle and squawk
from the birdmongers then sudden
downpour, a few of the demons dwelling
beneath the earth tentatively stir.
Not like th... | [
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98355163c74e9792 | New Year | Bei Dao | a child carrying flowers walks toward the new year
a conductor tattooing darkness
listens to the shortest pause
hurry a lion into the cage of music
hurry stone to masquerade as a recluse
moving in parallel nights
who's the visitor? when the days all
tip from nests and fly down roads
the book of failure grows bo... | [
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ee9bdca9b298bc9d | Pigeonnier | Graham Mort | He walks through a cloud of blue moths — one for each apostle — into a round towerwith a peaked chapeau of tiles, the oak door rotted, wasps fierce in the vine, limestonesteps hollowed. Rows of nesting boxes dark as the eyes of city whores; pigeons sleeping;a wedge of sun chiseling mica through dus... | [
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05354e032203fb3f | Margaret’s Speech | Norman Dubie | I’m a frogman. Naked by the water
Under a lean of canvas she’d sewn
With a thick paraffin thread,
She gestured. When we pulled him
From the river
His left leg was meal. Crayfish in the hair.
The river bottom left his shoulder
Layered and crocheted—
My sister’s pearl knitting needles
Clicking in my head. I told... | [
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f53ba5969f53b81c | “Oh Fairest of the Rural Maids” | William Cullen Bryant | Oh fairest of the rural maids! Thy birth was in the forest shades; Green boughs, and glimpses of the sky, Were all that met thine infant eye. Thy sports, thy wanderings, when a child, Were even in the sylvan wild; And all the beauty of the place Is in thy heart and on thy face. The twilight of the trees and rocks I... | [
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2eec8a8cf5fb799d | Poetry, a Natural Thing | Robert Duncan | Neither our vices nor our virtues
further the poem. “They came up
and died
just like they do every year
on the rocks.”
The poem
feeds upon thought, feeling, impulse,
to breed itself,
a spiritual urgency at the dark ladders leaping.
This beauty is an inner persistence
toward th... | [
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6a56038e29d9cf4e | Several Altitudes of Not Talking | Wendy Xu | You are part of other people but not
like them. You live in a little wooden box
and wake up with your face
in your palm and some sunlight.
Which is a sign of resignation but not
for you. Which is part of what I meant
by trying to effect change
in myself and also talking. By describing
to you that before a city ... | [
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9e241984aed5baef | Philip Larkin's Koan | Paisley Rekdal | In the perfect universe of math it’s said
the world’s eternal aberration.
In fact, we should be less than dead,
math itself disrupted for matter ever to be read
as real. A thought so hard to fathom that The Nation
in its article on math has said
we lack the right imagination: the human head
will not subtract its... | [
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23a25e5755e5243e | The Friend | Matt Hart | For Nate Pritts
The friend lives half in the grassand half in the chocolate cake,walks over to your house in the bashful lightof November, or the forceful light of summer.You put your hand on her shoulder,or you put your hand on his shoulder.The friend is indefinite. You are bothso tired, no one ever notices the sleep... | [
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1ef055bbc0124b4a | Shakespeare | Matthew Arnold | Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask—Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge. For the loftiest hill,
Who to the stars uncrowns his majesty,
Planting his steadfast footsteps in the sea,
Making the heaven of heavens his dwelling-place,
Spares but the cloudy border of his base
To the foil'd s... | [
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67c4740def1913c4 | The Dignity of Ushers | Al Maginnes | Their authority did not unfold
from ironed white shirts and thin ties
or from the funereal seriousness that struck
their acne-splashed faces but because
they stood heir to our native faith in light.
So we followed the thin white waver
of beams they pointed down aisles
to seats we never thought of refusing.
It was the f... | [
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6c50533cad1c6dc7 | “And then we cowards” | Cesare Pavese | And then we cowards
who loved the whispering
evening, the houses,
the paths by the river,
the dirty red lights
of those places, the sweet
soundless sorrow—
we reached our hands out
toward the living chain
in silence, but our heart
startled us with blood,
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no more losing ourselves
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fb62f114a6a81f6f | Edward Hopper's Office at Night | Victoria Chang | The boss is sitting at the desk the boss doesn’t look
at her the boss is waiting for the black telephone
to ring she also waits for a ring from the boss he is
waiting for the files from her
her blue dress like a reused file folder around
her body her hands tight arou... | [
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cb890bb49cb89509 | Apartment | Rae Armantrout | 1 The woman on the mantel, who doesn't much resemble me, is holding a chainsaw away from her body, with a shocked smile, while an undiscovered tumor squats on her kidney. 2 The present is a sentimental favorite, with its heady mix of grandiosity and abjection, truncated, framed. 3 It's as if I'm subletting a friend's a... | [
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7989f6eb2e73561a | My Soul | Richard Lehnert | In the suburbs on a bike path that inany other age would be a road roughedhalfway through some dark wood’s listening hearttwo damp young men in suits sucked dry of lightwalk stiffly and uncertain round a bendin each left hand the black box of a bookThey see me then spread out to fill the wayas sun blares down and dry M... | [
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801cc137be846ab2 | Water Island | Howard Moss | To the memory of a friend,
drowned off Water Island, April, 1960
Finally, from your house, there is no view;
The bay’s blind mirror shattered over you
And Patchogue took your body like a log
The wind rolled up to shore. The senseless drowned
Have faces nobody would care to... | [
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9e514ea710b497af | Refuge Temple | Kazim Ali | refuge temple 254 Purdy Street, Buffalo, NY, childhood home of Lucille Clifton
There will be another storm always on the air
Or in the air or are you the air
Cold unrecognizable following
The inside road
This vessel bears one through
Snow or time to find the house
Paint peeling and maybe unfamiliar but the addre... | [
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9bd66df1d65fdc2e | Lines for Winter | Mark Strand | for Ros Krauss
Tell yourself
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself—
inside the dome of dark
or under the cracking white
of the moon's gaze in a valley of snow.
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which... | [
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46e3156065b084ac | What Is June Anyway? | David Budbill | After three weeks of hot weather and drought,
we've had a week of cold and rain,
just the way it ought to be here in the north,
in June, a fire going in the woodstove
all day long, so you can go outside in the cold
and rain anytime and smell
the wood smoke in the air.
This is t... | [
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31f031fe2f09b61a | Loony Bin Basketball | Mary Karr | For Phil Jackson
The gym opened out before us like a vast arena, the bleached floorboardsyawned toward a vanishing point, staggered seats highas the Mayan temple I once saw devoured by vines.Each of us was eaten up inside — all citizens of lost and unmapped cities.Frank hugged the pimply ballover his bel... | [
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c8dedefc4d7a4c58 | The Kid | Ai | My sister rubs the doll’s face in mud,
then climbs through the truck window.
She ignores me as I walk around it,
hitting the flat tires with an iron rod.
The old man yells for me to help hitch the team,
but I keep walking around the truck, hitting harder,
until my mother calls.
I pick up a rock and throw it at t... | [
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23095f92327dc174 | from America, America | Saadi Youssef | God save America,
My home, sweet home! | [
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0684f6831e4bdeb0 | [lady in brown] "de library waz right down from de trolly tracks" | Ntozake Shange | lady in brown
de library waz right down from de trolly tracks
cross from de laundry-mat
thru de big shinin floors & granite pillars
ol st. louis is famous for
i found toussaint
but not til after months uv
cajun katie/ pippi longstockin
christopher robin/ eddie heyward & a pooh bear
in the children’s room
only... | [
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e68cf50f0c69d721 | Prometheus | Lord Byron (George Gordon) | Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods despise; What was thy pity's recompense? A silent suffering, and intense; The rock, the vulture, and the chain, All that the proud can feel of pain, The agony they do not show, The suffoc... | [
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de9f46a4e7e7f142 | The Perfect Mother | Susan Griffin | 1
The perfect mother lets the cat
sleep on her head. The
children laugh.
Where is she?
She is not carefully ironing the starched
ruffles of a Sunday dress.
What does she say?
She does not speak.
Her head is under the cat and
like the cat, she sleeps.
2
But her children are in a marsh!
Bogged, they h... | [
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be3a5bdda9be51ed | Christmas Trees | William Logan | How should I now recallthe icy lace of the panelike a sheet of cellophane,or the skies of alcoholpoured over the saltbox town?On that stony New England tableau,the halo of falling snowglared like a waxy crown.Through blue frozen lotsmy giant parents strolled,wrapped tight against the coldlike woolen Argonauts,searching... | [
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e4d8f4d9be833e8e | Conversation 9: On Varieties of Oblivion | Rosmarie Waldrop | After bitter resistance the river unravels into the night, he says. Washes our daily fare of war out into a dark so deaf, so almost without dimension there is no word to dive from. Body weight displaced by dreams whose own lack promises lucidity so powerful it could shoot a long take to mindlessness. Fish smell travels... | [
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f58db8457075592e | An Owl (in Memory of Gil) | David Shapiro | Owl small be enough
The child for all his feathers was a cold.
Oh wow the owl.
The poem the vowels
The owl, look its vowels
That branch for you
Owl, are you an armature vector
And a large step for mankind?
Owl astronaut burgeoning owl is a gift
You give to me give to you
Terrible other things happen.
We stay... | [
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19b26f417b45a4d4 | Kong Looks Back on His Tryout With the Bears | William Trowbridge | If it had worked out, I'd be on a train to Green Bay,
not crawling up this building with the Air Corps
on my ass. And if it weren't for love, I'd drop
this shrieking little bimbo sixty stories
and let them take me back to the exhibit,
let them teach me to mambo and do imitations.
They tried me on the offensive li... | [
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ab6116b7339ae65d | Sonnet II: Of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white | Sir John Suckling | Of thee, kind boy, I ask no red and white, To make up my delight; No odd becoming graces, Black eyes, or little know-not-whats in faces; Make me but mad enough, give me good store Of love for her I count; I ask no more, ’Tis love in love that makes the sport. There’s no such thing as that we beauty call, ... | [
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8f89e202258b1cf0 | Joe | Emily Pauline Johnson | An Etching
A meadow brown; across the yonder edge A zigzag fence is ambling; here a wedge Of underbush has cleft its course in twain, Till where beyond it staggers up again; The long, grey rails stretch in a broken line Their ragged length of rough, split forest pine, And in their zigzag tottering have reeled In drunk... | [
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886e8f0796b053d3 | Poem Written with Buson [“The whole country”] | Matthew Rohrer | The whole countryin a courtly danceits tiny mouth openI pour another cup of wineand falling, risingthe children remove their toysaround the small apartmentto their bunk bedsnot quite dark yetearly spring with snowon the windthe woman across the streetbent like a sicklecollecting bottles and cansknocks, goes onI wonder ... | [
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68294c33c7516781 | Richard Cory | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he... | [
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a2c1ad0daee64b42 | Puzzle | Brenda Iijima | Prostrating before the golden figure
Against disinclination…later in the day…
All that remains…the extremely brittle foliage…
Abated, the thunder…our golden figure…
Her ugly hair held back by a pin…frenzied
Rushed down the forested hill that isolates sun
Highly explosive, flickering, foiling of your heightening h... | [
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3b2e29ab6b4b4330 | Spring and All: Chapter XIII [Thus, weary of life] | William Carlos Williams | Thus, weary of life, in view of the great consummation which awaits us — tomorrow, we rush among our friends congratulating ourselves upon the joy soon to be. Thoughtless of evil we crush out the marrow of those about us with our heavy cars as we go happily from place to place. It seems that there is not time enough in... | [
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