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cbc0f4b0863c378b | Morality | Matthew Arnold | We cannot kindle when we will
The fire which in the heart resides;
The spirit bloweth and is still,
In mystery our soul abides.
But tasks in hours of insight will'd
Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.
With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the h... | [
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ee18b1e5ef235694 | Washing the World | Anna Marie Sewell | with a mournful but driving feel, in Bm, 2/2 time
in the dark, in the bitter wind
listen to a dream
grandmothers stand
shoulder to shoulder, on the rim of a hill
bend as one, and grasp one thing together
ask them, in the dream world, why
do they cry? they will show you in reply
their shawls of many colours, spr... | [
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41967b00f47d67c9 | Rite of Passage | Sharon Olds | As the guests arrive at our son’s party
they gather in the living room—
short men, men in first grade
with smooth jaws and chins.
Hands in pockets, they stand around
jostling, jockeying for place, small fights
breaking out and calming. One says to anotherHow old are you? —Six. —I’m seven. —So?
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0e7d7290655d9631 | "Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross," | Mother Goose | Ride a cockhorse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady upon a white horse;
Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
She shall have music wherever she goes. | [
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3fa368521b3f1098 | Tattoo for Gina | David Shapiro | Some see a dove
And think Pigeon
Others see pigeons
And think Dove
Some know that all pigeons are doves
Some angry as if pigeons were not doves
But the city lover knows
And I try to reconstruct
The tattoo on one of your many branches
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04d712156382f5cf | Amaze | Adelaide Crapsey | I knowNot these my handsAnd yet I think there wasA woman like me once had handsLike these. | [
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e0c0d3514f2f8a81 | Snow flakes. (45) | Emily Dickinson | I counted till they danced so
Their slippers leaped the town –
And then I took a pencil
To note the rebels down –
And then they grew so jolly
I did resign the prig –
And ten of my once stately toes
Are marshalled for a jig! | [
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2471167c2ea04752 | Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring (1 April 1945) | W. D. Snodgrass | (Göring, head of the Luftwaffe, once bragged that if one German city were bombed, they could call him “Meier.” At his Karinhall estate, he questions himself and his disgrace.)
And why, Herr Reichsmarschall, is Italy
Just like schnitzel? If they’re beaten
Either one will just get bigger.
Neither cuts too firm a figu... | [
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f9fd92223bdd1a84 | Damon the Mower | Andrew Marvell | Hark how the Mower Damon sung, With love of Juliana stung! While everything did seem to paint The scene more fit for his complaint. Like her fair eyes the day was fair, But scorching like his am’rous care. Sharp like his scythe his sorrow was, And withered like his hopes the grass. ‘Oh what unusual heats are here, Whic... | [
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b370bae0dca80a54 | Unstable Dream | Sir Thomas Wyatt | Unstable dream, according to the place,Be steadfast once, or else at least be true.By tasted sweetness make me not to rueThe sudden loss of thy false feignèd grace.By good respect in such a dangerous caseThou broughtest not her into this tossing mewBut madest my sprite live, my care to renew,My body in tempest her succ... | [
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c5b651e52fd33a4d | The Summer Image | Léonie Adams | (From a Persian Carpet)
Ash and strewments, the first moth-wings, pale
Ardour of brief evenings, on the fecund wind;
Or all a wing, less than wind,
Breath of low herbs upfloats, petal or wing,
Haunting the musk precincts of burial.
For the season of newer riches moves triumphing,
Of the evanescence of deaths. Th... | [
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98d6f52fb0262859 | Ghost Supper | David Wojahn | after Pavese
Under the trellised arbor, and our supper’s over
in the memory I’ve found myself inside.
L not speaking, and beside us the river
sliding softly by. Now the light will fade
to moonlit water. And in memory I work
to make this lingering accurate and sweet.
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b52537b05b4fbee9 | Transmission | Eileen Myles | I’m overcome
by the cruelty
of nature
no I mean
I’m with
it. And each
little capacity
it has
can’t be transferred
I mean
a spruce
can’t give
its oils to you
can it.
But that’s how
it grows
in the ab
sence of
technology
my thoughts
grow. My thoughts
grow among
trees
but I don’t
help them
though
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f8a02dcfd0bf21db | When Black Men Drown Their Daughters | Patricia Smith | When black, men drown. They spend their whole lifetimes
justifying the gall of springing the trap, the inconvenience
of slouched denim, of coupling beyond romance or aim.
All the while, the rising murk edges toward their chins.
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63ff35da47c56ee0 | Lucky | Dorothea Tanning | Ever imagining the dire, the sudden
the menace with no thought of the
gradual, the lingering itch of whatever.
That was my sister.
A stomach ache had to be diagnosed.
“Oh, come on, it’s no big deal.”
“How do you know? You aren’t me.”
At the doctor’s office she waited.
He reached for his stethoscope,
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4000126c49f8d1ad | Harina de Castilla | Sandra M. Castillo | “All accounts of the past are made up of possibilities.”
—Dionisio Martinez
for Larry Villanueva
i.
For years,
you were a story of ancestors,
pre-revolutionary Cuba:
Barrios, Donate, Gallata, Villanueva,
family names strung and pearled in the Caribbean
by blood and memory,
nostalgia and calamity
en Artemisa,... | [
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5b09de53ce63f2aa | Book and Screen | Marianne Boruch | It’s mostly someonelong dead who gets curiousall over again, who once tolda book, the bookpicked clean to glowon a website now, an addresswith double slashes in it.Suddenly I loveone detail: the way they harnessedhorses or hammeredcopper, what seed — cardamom, rye — kept its small heart aloftfor a millennium.Voices in ... | [
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0871336c50f30354 | The Corn Baby | Mark Wunderlich | They brought it. It was brought from the field, the last sheaf, the last bundle the latest and most final armful. Up up over the head, hold it, hold it high it held the gazer’s gaze, it held hope, did hold it. Through the stubble of September, on shoulders aloft, hardly anything, it weighed, like a sparrow,... | [
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b17657ec7a49b9a4 | Slugs | Brian Swann | Who could have dreamed them up? At least snailshave shells, but all these have is—nothing.Small black antennae like fat pins waveas if they could take in enough to get them through.Turn them over, they’re the soles of new shoes,pale and unmarked as babies. They flow,the soil itself learning how to move and, moving,almo... | [
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f64aa7e7585e74b5 | Crocodile Tears | Kay Ryan | The one sincere crocodile has gone dry eyed for years. Why bother crying crocodile tears. | [
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1ee9dc5d60c96219 | Recuerdo | Edna St. Vincent Millay | We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—
But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon.
We were very tired, we... | [
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6add88c257b470b7 | Northampton Style | Marie Ponsot | Evening falls. Someone’s playing a dulcimerNorthampton-style, on the porch out back.Its voice touches and parts the air of summer,as if it swam to time us down a riverwhere we dive and leave a single trackas evening falls. Someone’s playing a dulcimerthat lets us wash our mix of dreams together.Delicate, tacit, we eng... | [
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010831254e6bf434 | There was a time I hardly went three steps | Simone White | Except another black girl was with me.
Mother. Always lonely. I am always.
Mother those girls. Forty-two.
March summer. Light blue. Vermont.
Endless crescent. Invert as a tyke lake.
Fernet Mother, I'm grown. Forest.
San Francisco. Lone cold.
Stone turd. Talk three or none.
Kidding.
Kidding. | [
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dcd1e2f5a62f3581 | Horns | Kwame Dawes | In every crowd, there is the one
with horns, casually moving through
the bodies as if this is the living
room of a creature with horns,
a long cloak and the song of tongues
on the lips of the body. To see
the horns, one’s heart rate must
reach one hundred and seventy
five beats per minute, at a rate
faster tha... | [
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50aff4e39721e6d7 | For Allen Ginsberg | Dorothea Grossman | Among other things,thanks for explaining how the generous death of old trees forms the red powdered floor of the forest. | [
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71878eb330579694 | Psalm 23 | Robert Alter | A David psalm.
The LORD is my shepherd,
I shall not want.
In grass meadows He makes me lie down,
by quiet waters guides me.
My life He brings back.
He leads me on pathways of justice
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94f2a15e1e22ad5b | Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont | William Wordsworth | I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged Pile! Four summer weeks I dwelt in sight of thee: I saw thee every day; and all the while Thy Form was sleeping on a glassy sea. So pure the sky, so quiet was the air! So like, so very like, was day to day! Whene'er I looked, thy Image still was there; It trembled, but it never pas... | [
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911f3a3e436918b2 | ROYGBIV | Fred D'Aguiar | The shoemaker’s wife ran preschool With a fist made not so much of iron But wire bristles on a wooden brush. She made us recite and learn by rote. Our trick was to mouth words, sound As if we knew what we would one day Come to know, what would dawn On us as sure as a centipede knows What to do with its myriad l... | [
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fa4a99338428045a | The New Optimism | Dean Young | The recital of the new optimismwas oft interrupted, rudenessin the ramparts, an injured raventhat needed attendance, pre-opnudity. The young who knew everythingwas new made babies who unforeseeablywould one day present their complaint.Enough blame to go around but the newoptimism didn’t stop, helped onepick up a brush,... | [
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a553a4c954acddaf | The Stick | Mark Waldron | Existence trumps nonexistence every time. It has
all the colors and all the shapes and all the moves,
it is rude in its bounty and its grotesque reach that
overcomes all before it. This bit of stick I found in
the park was showing off because the dead can’t have it.
They can’t have any of it. It was sticky and pri... | [
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667e1d276e741645 | My Hometown | Donal Heffernan | Oh, Homer! Your village sleeps near the Missouri River With your cousin Winnebago, both children of Lakotaland. You kept your town at two stories, as flat as the surrounding prairie. You taught the Iliad and Odyssey in honor of your namesake poet. Your spirit outlasted the bleached fields of the Depression, and Bravely... | [
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fac75e7067522023 | Jook Joint Saturday Night | J. Patrick Lewis | Jook joint's about to come alive!
It's like a bee outside a hive;
And when the hive begins to hum,
It's like a dim and distant drum;
And when the drum begins to beat,
It's like a circus down the street;
And when the street begins to fill,
It's like a sudden summer chill;
And just as summer simmers down,
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236b2ef651b82842 | Creole | Robert Pinsky | I’m tired of the gods, I’m pious about the ancestors: afloatIn the wake widening behind me in time, the restive devisers.My father had one job from high school till he got fired at thirty. The year was 1947 and his boss, planning to run for mayor, Wanted to hire an Italian veteran, he explained, putting itIn plain Engl... | [
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f1ca6a6dabf07aaf | You Are Not Christ | Rickey Laurentiis | New Orleans, Louisiana
For the drowning, yes, there is always panic.Or peace. Your body behaving finally by instinctalone. Crossing out wonder. Crossing outa need to know. You only feel you need to live.That you deserve it. Even here. Even as your chestfills with a strange new air, you will not ask what this means. Li... | [
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027c5843150d5328 | More Sonnets At Christmas | Allen Tate | (1942)
To Denis Devlin
I
Again the native hour lets down the locks
Uncombed and black, but gray the bobbing beard;
Ten years ago His eyes, fierce shuttlecocks,
Pierced the close net of what I failed: I feared
The belly-cold, the grave-clout, that betrayed
Me dithering in the drift of cordial seas;
Ten years ar... | [
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0d612de88418f35b | Lucifer in Starlight | David St. John | Tired of his dark dominion ...
—George Meredith
It was something I’d overheard
One evening at a party; a man I liked enormously
Saying to a mutual friend, a woman
Wearing a vest embroidered with scarlet and violet tulips
That belled below each breast, “Well, I’ve always
Preferred A... | [
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8fbd2c65a431a3a3 | The Racer | John Masefield | I saw the racer coming to the jump,
Staring with fiery eyeballs as he rusht,
I heard the blood within his body thump,
I saw him launch, I heard the toppings crusht.
And as he landed I beheld his soul
Kindle, because, in front, he saw the Straight
With all its thousands roaring at the goal,
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8070d6b58a0de2a1 | Canto III | Ezra Pound | I sat on the Dogana’s steps
For the gondolas cost too much, that year,
And there were not “those girls”, there was one face,
And the Buccentoro twenty yards off, howling, “Stretti”,
And the lit cross-beams, that year, in the Morosini,
And peacocks in Koré’s house, or there may have been.
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88b87106cb11a823 | Marginalia | Deborah Warren | Finding an old book on a basement shelf— gray, spine bent—and reading it again, I met my former, unfamiliar, self, some of her notes and scrawls so alien that, though I tried, I couldn't get (behind this gloss or that) back to the time she wrote to guess what experiences she had in mind, the living contex... | [
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23a81b9f0873cefc | On Returning to My Hometown in 2035 | Idra Novey | Even the gun shows are gone now, even the scrapyards, the darkest, farthest barns. The strip mall half empty since my elementary years abides only chemicals now, the lot sequestered behind fences, its metal tanks checked each September for leaks in the seals. I lost my virginity in a basement here, lostmy balance on a ... | [
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28cd44c66228ccba | On A Moonstruck Gravel Road | Rodney Torreson | The sheep-killing dogs saunter home, wool scraps in their teeth. From the den of the moon ancestral wolves howl their approval. The farm boys, asleep in their beds, live the same wildness under their lids; every morning they come back through the whites of their eyes to do their chores, their hands pausing to pet the d... | [
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b188101778d29c30 | Faults | Sara Teasdale | They came to tell your faults to me,They named them over one by one;I laughed aloud when they were done,I knew them all so well before, —Oh, they were blind, too blind to seeYour faults had made me love you more. | [
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aabf30f949fbc66a | In an Unrelated | Elaine Equi | We have almost nothing left,
no ground in common.
At best, a brand
or maybe a miniseries.
No campfire to gather around.
The big stories—peckish news
gets told in tweets,
gets old so quickly.
In place of one place
a billion tiny customized versions
appear targeted specifically
to your tastes.
You see only wh... | [
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c64c7d92e89ce766 | First Men on the Moon | J. Patrick Lewis | "The Eagle has landed!" —Apollo II Commander Neil A. Armstrong
"A magnificent desolation!" — Air Force Colonel Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr.
July 20, 1969
That afternoon in mid-July,
Two pilgrims watched from distant space
The moon ballooning in the sky.
They rose to meet it face-to-face.
Their spidery spaceship, ... | [
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b60d341ef9ea59da | Wildlife Management I | James Galvin | All the trees kept their own counsel without any wind to speak of,
until one lone limber pine began gesticulating wildly, as if it
suffered from its own inner cyclone.
It was like a lunatic in the
courtroom of other trees.
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ab91a7dcbc5374ed | To a Young Writer | Yvor Winters | Achilles Holt, Stanford, 1930
Here for a few short years
Strengthen affections; meet,
Later, the dull arrears
Of age, and be discreet.
The angry blood burns low.
Some friend of lesser mind
Discerns you not; but so
Your solitude’s defined.
Write little; do it well.
Your knowledge will be such,
At last, as to ... | [
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576cc5f5628bece2 | The Last Time I Slept in This Bed | Sara Peters | I was involved in the serious businessof ripping apart my own body.I’d run my fingers over it,seeking but never findingthe right point of entry,so having to tear one myself,though midway throughI’d always tire,and let night enterlike a silver needle,sewing my eyelids shut.This was not an original practice,but thinking,... | [
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3960e5900ffbe4f3 | Epitaph on a Hare | William Cowper | Here lies, whom hound did ne’er pursue, Nor swifter greyhound follow, Whose foot ne’er tainted morning dew, Nor ear heard huntsman’s hallo’, Old Tiney, surliest of his kind, Who, nursed with tender care, And to domesticate bounds confined, Was still a wild jack-hare. Though duly from my hand he took ... | [
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2a9c860d14025de0 | Sketch of My Sister’s Visit Last Night | Nestor Gomez | So déjame
contarte
un cuento, una historia
es que
lluvia rain agh what’s the word tey tey
at? eltiw? Ateltiw?
Last night, Atelti came after class. Siempre sabes when she’s here because you hear hail on the
windows, the flapping of the leaves, las hojas, ne... | [
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29ffb9866e5127e0 | Addiction | Ken Mikolowski | Fighting a losing battle
lives next door
to a vibrant woman
in her 30’s.
When he talks to her
sub-mediocre takes over
in a big way.
Zombie-ized by the big eye
she even sleeps with it on.
Just sign me: concerned. | [
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b9f7557a86ff70c3 | (This Line Intentionally Left Blank) | J. Allyn Rosser | we all got tickets to The Truthfinally we thought finally when the curtain fell awayour indrawn breaths could be heardeven in the next theater even the gasp of the mime who had slipped in among usa loud whushing like reams of litterwhirling upward in a galehands shot to mouths and mouths fell open I couldn’t say within... | [
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fbfbdf648bef22b7 | The Great Figure | William Carlos Williams | Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city. | [
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8a9f2d7773695758 | Scarecrow on Fire | Dean Young | We all think about suddenly disappearing.
The train tracks lead there, into the woods.
Even in the financial district: wooden doors
in alleyways. First I want to put something small
into your hand, a button or river stone or
key I don’t know to what. I don’t
have that house anymore across from the graveyard
and ... | [
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e88d36399c59ba44 | Down with Bluebirds | Margaret Fishback | When in the dumps, I hate the things
That ordinarily I love.
I loathe the lark that blindly sings;
I hate the bland, blue sky above.
The crocus, sneering on the lawn,
Forsythia about to bloom—
I'd like to see them dead and gone,
Instead of filling life with gloom.
But most of all, I do not care,
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8fddc6d81558a1ac | Looking For Each of Us | Linda Gregg | I open the box of my favorite postcards
and turn them over looking for de Chirico
because I remember seeing you standing
facing a wall no wider than a column where
to your left was a hall going straight back
into darkness, the floor a ramp sloping down
to where you stood alone and where the room
opened out on yo... | [
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38cbf6b22be12878 | Dizzy | David Yezzi | Zigging, mid-
block, he’s off:
on a torn-up, trafficked slab of Second Avenue—
his cane sweeping
over
broken asphalt,
like a sapper or
an open skiff on back-splashing seas. For a few
seconds it’s
unclear
if he gets
the risk,
as yellow cabs swoop down and flock at the light.
Then, safe
home
on the other
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c70b00c7df84178f | That Country | Grace Paley | This is about the women of that country
Sometimes they spoke in slogans
They said
We patch the roads as we patch our sweetheart’s trousers
The heart will stop but not the transport
They said
We have ensured production even near bomb craters
Children let your voices sing higher than th... | [
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53a0103fbed4530e | Amoretti IV: "New yeare forth looking out of Janus gate" | Edmund Spenser | New yeare forth looking out of Janus gate,
Doth seeme to promise hope of new delight:
And bidding th’old Adieu, his pass | [
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f8e30a6081fd0ae1 | I dwell in Possibility – (466) | Emily Dickinson | I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –
Of Chambers as the Cedars –
Impregnable of eye –
And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky –
Of Visitors – the fairest –
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradi... | [
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999a9deb0a7a10b2 | Parable of the Desultory Slut | Tony Barnstone | When he read in the obituary section that he was dead, the famous author was at first amused and flattered. They love me so much, he thought, they have imagined me dead because they fear the loss of my genius above all else. So he put on his hat, combed his goatee to a waxed point, and sauntered out of his flat to atte... | [
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89f8ddd0a74ebc94 | Lilacs | Amy Lowell | Lilacs,
False blue,
White,
Purple,
Color of lilac,
Your great puffs of flowers
Are everywhere in this my New England.
Among your heart-shaped leaves
Orange orioles hop like music-box birds and sing
Their little weak soft songs;
In the crooks of your branches
The bright eyes of song sparrows sitting on spotte... | [
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9ba8cad6a4f8d0ec | In Memory of Edward Wilson, Who Repented of what was in his Mind to Write after Section | James Clerk Maxwell | Rigid Body (sings).
Gin a body meet a body
Flyin’ through the air,
Gin a body hit a body,
Will it fly? and where?
Ilka impact has its measure,
Ne’er a ane hae I,
Yet a’ the lads they measure me,
Or, at least, they try.
Gin a body meet a body
Altogether free,
How they travel afterwards
We do not... | [
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d868cea5fe9e42d6 | The Need of Being Versed in Country Things | Robert Frost | The house had gone to bring again
To the midnight sky a sunset glow.
Now the chimney was all of the house that stood,
Like a pistil after the petals go.
The barn opposed across the way,
That would have joined the house in flame
Had it been the will of the wind, was left
To bear forsaken the place’s name.
No mor... | [
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0f8e0e6959b3c4cc | To Virgil, Written at the Request of the Manuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of Virgil's Death | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Roman Virgil, thou that singest
Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire,
Ilion falling, Rome arising,
wars, and filial faith, and Dido's pyre;
Landscape-lover, lord of language
more than he that sang the "Works and Days,"
All the chosen coin of fancy
flashing out from many a golden phrase;
Thou that... | [
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7a936f6c9144a121 | The Key to the Kingdom | Philip Gross | It's not exile, homes and families behind
us, where we meet. It happens anywhere,
now: a stateless
state of no name, quietly seceding
from the crumbling empires round us,
without stamps or Eurovision entries.
No-one does it with a rough guide in a week.
You inhabit it
or nothing. Like this: in a pav... | [
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7c20af525acaab47 | In Memoriam A. H. H. OBIIT MDCCCXXXIII: 54 | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final end of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete; ... | [
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806d3fc7176b0b35 | The Knife Wearer | Lois Red Elk | This morning we found ourselves skinning a deer,
cutting meat, hanging some to dry and packaging
some for the freezer. It was the dogs late last night
that set off a howling, the unexpected smell of fresh
blood floating down the block, then a familiar car
horn honking in the driveway. My nephew and his
friends we... | [
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a6e0384305960e81 | Alcohol | Franz Wright | You do look a little ill.
But we can do something about that, now.
Can’t we.
The fact is you’re a shocking wreck.
Do you hear me.
You aren’t all alone.
And you could use some help today, packing in the
dark, boarding buses north, putting the seat back and
grinning with terror flowing over your legs through
you... | [
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d3fe0594cc24e1f0 | The Coriolanus Effect | Tim Wells | For Jack the Ripper walking tours
Comeye learned,ye loquacious,ye lost.Walk a pentagramaround ego,erudition,experience.Our shuls,mosques,and homesbe yours.Our murderedlaid bare,our slums still teem,our souls sold.As for us,we marvel asour own effluviaswirlswiddershins. | [
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749af9f5a2815b41 | The New Religion | Chris Abani | The body is a nation I have not known.
The pure joy of air: the moment between leaping
from a cliff into the wall of blue below. Like that.
Or to feel the rub of tired lungs against skin-
covered bone, like a hand against the rough of bark.
Like that. “The body is a savage,” I said.
For years I said that: the bod... | [
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26c54573db7adf6a | from One Big Self: "Count your fingers" | C. D. Wright | Count your fingers
Count your toes
Count your nose holes
Count your blessings
Count your stars (lucky or not)
Count your loose change
Count the cars at the crossing
Count the miles to the state line
Count the ticks you pulled off the dog
Count your calluses
Count your shells
Count the points on the antlers
... | [
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] | [] |
4957477b54e4b147 | Adriaen het Kint | Joyelle McSweeney | Adriaen het Kint, dead prisoner,
passes back through the eye of the needle
into the wombed-shaped anatomy theater
in a caul of umbra mortis, lo.
Tho I pass through the valley of the shadow
of death, I wear a caul stitched by the needle
through which a camel passed, like the condom
passed through the drug mule, s... | [
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40150afde11e2403 | Wanting Sumptuous Heavens | Robert Bly | No one grumbles among the oyster clans,
And lobsters play their bone guitars all summer.
Only we, with our opposable thumbs, want
Heaven to be, and God to come, again.
There is no end to our grumbling; we want
Comfortable earth and sumptuous Heaven.
But the heron standing on one leg in the bog
Drinks his dark ru... | [
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b56cab06ab24972f | Ellis Island | Peter Balakian | The tide’s a Bach cantata.
The beach is the swollen neck of Isaac.
The tide’s a lamentation of white opals.
The beach is free. The Coke machine rusted out.
Here is everything you’ll never need:
hemp-cords, curry-combs, jade and musk,
a porcelain cup blown into the desert—
stockings that walked to Syria in 1915.
... | [
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b09be6bc8ae968ed | Work Shy | Alex Phillips | To be poor and raise skinny children. To own nothing but skinny clothing. Skinny food falls in between cracks. Friends cannot visit your skinny home. They cannot fit through the door. Your skinny thoughts evaporate into the day or the night that you cannot see with your tiny eyes. God sticks you with the smallest pins ... | [
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53795017578827cd | The Scrutinie | Richard Lovelace | I
Why should you sweare I am forsworn,
Since thine I vow’d to be?
Lady it is already Morn,
And ’twas last night I swore to thee
That fond impossibility.
II
Have I not lov’d thee much and long,
A tedious twelve houres space?
I must all other Beauties wrong,
And rob thee of a new imbrace;
Could... | [
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c74cba2b0895c32f | Alas Madam for Stealing of a Kiss | Sir Thomas Wyatt | Alas, madam, for stealing of a kiss
Have I so much your mind there offended?
Have I then done so grievously amiss
That by no means it may be amended?
Then revenge you, and the next way is this:
Another kiss shall have my life ended,
For to my mouth the first my heart did suck;
The next shall clean out of my breast it p... | [
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32657f49fb4a834c | Now it is fall | Edith Södergran | when all the golden birds
fly home across the blue deep water;
On shore I sit rapt in its scattering
glitter;
departure rustles through the trees.
This farewell is vast and separation draws close,
but reunion, that also is certain.
My head on my arm I fall a... | [
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7c8fe4605a5bc781 | [Wilt thou play with him as with a bird] | Leslie Harrison | For I have loved the blade with all my crippled
with all my awkward soul loved it for the shine
sheen for the ease and grace of doing what it was
made to do for I have loved the stubborn womb
its beloved intent have loved the hope and then
learned to love the lack for I have loved the water
the way it comes to me... | [
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efeec3f79074f56a | Taking Off from an Old WCW Poem | George Bowering | Imagine that — my last words
might have been spoken to the dog, she
who saved my life, it has been said, spoken
with no thought
of reply nor of understanding, a genial insult
maybe, a philosophical conundrum
posed aeons before any household pet ever
turned an ear. In the ambulance I made no remark
about trees n... | [
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b19319f47abacce4 | Brown Girl Manifesto (Too) | Marilyn Chin | Metaphor metaphor my pestilential aesthetic A tsunami powers through my mother’s ruinsDelta delta moist loins of the republic Succumb to the low-lying succubus do!Flagpole flagpole my father’s polemics A bouquet of fuck-u-bastard flowersFist me embrace me with ... | [
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7c652e8b34fd0f24 | St. Agnes' Eve | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Deep on the convent-roof the snows
Are sparkling to the moon:
My breath to heaven like vapour goes;
May my soul follow soon!
The shadows of the convent-towers
Slant down the snowy sward,
Still creeping with the creeping hours
That lead me to my Lord:
Make Thou my spirit pure and clear
As a... | [
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101ee0ad787700c0 | Rx | Eric Amling | We come here
These little pillars of salt
Placed into the hands
Of physicians
With debt sweats
A gross product
Of the sex apparatus
There are expired teens
There are the old
That die in the summer
The situation
When a nation
Loses its beloved celebrity
It tries to out-mourn one another
Extort them of thei... | [
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ffa205b4f9d9b665 | Family | Josephine Miles | When you swim in the surf off Seal Rocks, and your family
Sits in the sand
Eating potato salad, and the undertow
Comes which takes you out away down
To loss of breath loss of play and the power of play
Holler, say
Help, help, help. Hello, they will say,
Come back here for some potato salad.
It is then that a se... | [
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53b8a1b72d8ca61f | Hephaestus Alone | Linda Gregg | His heart is like a boat that sets forth alone
on the ocean and goes far out from him,
as Aphrodite proceeds on her pleasure journeys.
He pours the gold down the runnels
into a great mystery under the sand.
When he pulls it up by the feet
and knocks off the scale, it is a god.
What is it she finds with those men... | [
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ed8fa7f54581f778 | Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100 | Martín Espada | for the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local l00, working at the Windows on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center
Alabanza. Praise the cook with a shaven head
and a tattoo on his shoulder that said Oye,
a blue-eyed Puerto Rican with people from Faj... | [
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d4a7974f2fb70bb3 | The Third Hour of the Night | Frank Bidart | When the eye
When the edgeless screen receiving light from the edgeless universe
When the eye first
When the edgeless screen facing outward as if hypnotized by the edgeless universe
When the eye first saw that it
Hungry for more light resistlessly began to fold back upon itself TWIST
As if a dog sniffing
... | [
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fe9e217d79a33559 | First Day of Kindergarten | Margaret Hasse | The bus steps are high, but William clambers up gamely.
Doors shut. He peers out a print-marked window.
From the street corner, I wave, wistful as a soldier’s bride
as his bus pulls away and turns a corner.
At noon the yellow bus returns him
to the same place where I’m standing again.
He thinks I stood there all ... | [
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] |
e6d0a74b20930489 | ["My father does his own dental work"] | Cathy Linh Che | My father does his own dental work.
A power drill and epoxy
and steady hands—
On Christmas Day, he mistook
the Macy’s star
for the Viet Cong flag.
While watchingForrest Gump, he told me
how he too carried a friend.
He squeezedaround my throat so tight,I thought I’d die with him. | [
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] |
481d7a9363948a5a | After All Have Gone | Mai Der Vang | I once carried my mollusk tune
All the way to the lottery of gods.
Rain was the old funeral choir
That keened of a hemisphere
Moored under lampwings.
Clouds never left. I knew
The lights would shine clearer
If I closed my eyes, just as
I knew the Pacific would teach
Me to sleep before tying my
Name to the fla... | [
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c861c01d0e41a05a | Mother's Day | Paolo Javier | "the shows here all fights are prepared by women"
evening at the bar below
only four ninety nine
that's cheap
as we walk to our room a hundred feet away
Id taken photo with a shirtless Pac
about to warm up for his battle with Bisping
anything goes
I say to Bisping "he will mishmash your face"
working behind At... | [
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4c4ebe9d8fd589c3 | Infant Joy | William Blake | I have no name I am but two days old.— What shall I call thee? I happy am Joy is my name,— Sweet joy befall thee! Pretty joy! Sweet joy but two days old, Sweet joy I call thee; Thou dost smile. I sing the while Sweet joy befall thee. | [
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] |
cff64028bc1c90f5 | “Womanhood, wanton, ye want” | John Skelton | Womanhood, wanton, ye want:
Your meddling, mistress, is mannerless;
Plenty of ill, of goodness scant,
Ye rail at riot, reckless:
To praise your port it is needless;
For all your draff yet and your dregs,
As well borne as ye full oft time begs.
Why so coy and full of scorn?
Mine horse is sold, I ween, you say;
... | [
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"S8"
] | [
"S8-1"
] | [
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"Relationships"
] | [
"Relationships/Breakups & Separation"
] |
bd3b94a017f4cc92 | A Shropshire Lad 12: When I watch the living meet | A. E. Housman | When I watch the living meet, And the moving pageant file Warm and breathing through the street Where I lodge a little while, If the heats of hate and lust In the house of flesh are strong, Let me mind the house of dust Where my sojourn shall be long. In the nation that is not Nothing stan... | [
"S6"
] | [
"S6-4"
] | [
"Living"
] | [
"Living/Death & Dying"
] |
a3abcafa0db82c8e | A Literalist | Robin Blaser | the root and mirror
of a plant
its shape
and power familiar
iris
the light is disturbed by
the boxwood leaves
shining
rosemary
green, unblossoming
(the earth is too damp)
the eye catches
almost a tune
the moth in the piano
wherein
unhammered
the air rings wi... | [
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"S9"
] | [
"S2-8",
"S9-2"
] | [
"Nature",
"Activities"
] | [
"Nature/Plants & Fungi",
"Activities/Gardening & Farming"
] |
eb3eb1aac5c31653 | Letter to the Local Police | June Jordan | Dear Sirs:
I have been enjoying the law and order of our
community throughout the past three months since
my wife and I, our two cats, and miscellaneous
photographs of the six grandchildren belonging to
our previous neighbors (with whom we were very
close) arrived in Saratoga Springs which is clearly
prospering ... | [
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"S3",
"S10"
] | [
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"S3-6"
] | [
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"Social Commentaries",
"Arts & Sciences"
] | [
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] |
04d383a27a4ca7e1 | Accounts | Rae Armantrout | Light was on its wayfrom nothingto nowhere.Light was all business Light was full speedwhen it got interrupted.Interrupted by what?When it got tangled upand brokeinto opposite broke into brand new things. What kinds of things? Drinking Cup “Thinking of you! ... | [
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] | [
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] | [
"Arts & Sciences/Language & Linguistics"
] |
8fbb0bfb7fc7f95e | Written with a Diamond on her Window at Woodstock | Queen Elizabeth I | Much suspected by me,
Nothing proved can be,
Quoth Elizabeth prisoner. | [
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b4a9ed48bb757bb0 | Recital at the Court of King Carrot III | Michael Farrell | Mortality is itself immortal Leo thought, reminded five
years later of the performance. Having come, despite his
Irish darkness, to resemble one of the Carrot clan
himself. Whatever he had read, and the feelings that went
along with those books, articles and poems, layered his
unconscious now like lava. What was t... | [
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376199cc9113f001 | 1972 ford ltd | Quraysh Ali Lansana | a harvest gold & avocado green leisure suit with fm radio, it was their,
well, daddy’s, mansion, his james brown conk cool, his funky country
on radials, power windows and doors a working class music. here is
our block-long plush, envy of uncles and teenage dolemite dreams. a
ms. cleopatra jones ride, showing yanke... | [
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"S8",
"S9"
] | [
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"Relationships",
"Activities"
] | [
"Social Commentaries/Class & Labor",
"Social Commentaries/Race & Ethnicity",
"Relationships/Family & Ancestors",
"Relationships/Home Life",
"Activities/Travels & Journeys"
] |
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