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7ac966a676e718e8	Cloud Study	Donald Platt	I keep returning to John Constable’s Study of Clouds.Oil on cardboard, six by seven and a half inches, it shows purple-graythunderheads, one patch of blue, above low hills and two small trees flanked by shrubsin the left foreground. A sketch en plein air, a half hour’s worth of work at most,it catches exactly one s...	[ "S1", "S6", "S7", "S10" ]	[ "S1-1", "S6-1", "S6-8", "S10-4" ]	[ "Love", "Living", "Time & Brevity", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Love/Desire & Erotic Love", "Arts & Sciences/Painting & Sculpture", "Living/Aging", "Living/Youth" ]
65109b675f7359cc	In Harvest	Sophie Jewett	Mown meadows skirt the standing wheat; I linger, for the hay is sweet, New-cut and curing in the sun. Like furrows, straight, the windrows run, Fallen, gallant ranks that tossed and bent When, yesterday, the west wind went A-rioting through grass and grain. To-day no least breath stirs the plain; Only the hot a...	[ "S2" ]	[ "S2-2", "S2-7" ]	[ "Nature" ]	[ "Nature/Summer", "Nature/Landscapes & Pastorals" ]
91cd70e89c7e1d05	Speculations about “I”	Toi Derricotte	A certain doubleness, by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. — Henry David Thoreau i I didn’t choose the word — it came pouring out of my throat like the water inside a drowned man. I didn’t even push on my stomach. I just lay there, dead (like he told me) & “I” came out. (I’m sorry, Fath...	[ "S6", "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S8-3", "S10-6" ]	[ "Living", "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Poetry & Poets", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
1d9ec353bed0fbc0	Pocono Lakeside	Michele Wolf	As I was guided by the director through the thick space Of these rooms, worn sparrow brown, and strode With the August sun on my shoulders across this particular Acre of grass, nobody had told me this was the place Where you had summered as a boy. I have weathered My fourth decade, older now than you were When y...	[ "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S6-4", "S10-5" ]	[ "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Living/Death & Dying" ]
b9c6d238bf003f75	An Essay on Man: Epistle II	Alexander Pope	I. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to dee...	[ "S2", "S3", "S4", "S5", "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S5-4", "S10-5" ]	[ "Nature", "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Religion", "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Religion/God & the Divine" ]
883780d3acb1ac5f	Itylus	Algernon Charles Swinburne	Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, How can thine heart be full of the spring? A thousand summers are over and dead. What hast thou found in the spring to follow? What hast thou found in thine heart to sing? What wilt thou do when the summer is shed? O swallow, sister, O fa...	[ "S2", "S11" ]	[ "S2-5" ]	[ "Nature", "Mythology & Folklore" ]	[ "Nature/Animals" ]
82f7477618f25f16	I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl	Karyna McGlynn	It’s no wonder I’m always tired with all these tract houses— It’s night & cold on my belly in the undeveloped field now I have to bury her clothing inside ...	[ "S3", "S6", "S7", "S8" ]	[ "S6-3", "S8-3", "S8-5" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living", "Time & Brevity", "Relationships" ]	[ "Living/Coming of Age", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors", "Relationships/Home Life" ]
58dc4aaf96069889	Threat	Gottfried Benn	Know this: I live beast days. I am a water hour. At night my eyelids droop like forest and sky. My love knows few words: I like it in your blood.	[ "S1", "S6" ]	[ "S1-4" ]	[ "Love", "Living" ]	[ "Love/Infatuation & Crushes" ]
db39b65561fb0203	The Amen Stone	Yehuda Amichai	On my desk there is a stone with the word “Amen” on it, a triangular fragment of stone from a Jewish graveyard destroyed many generations ago. The other fragments, hundreds upon hundreds, were scattered helter-skelter, and a great yearning, a longing without end, fills them all: first name in search of family name...	[ "S2", "S3", "S4", "S5", "S6", "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S2-7", "S3-11", "S5-6", "S6-4", "S6-5", "S8-3", "S10-7" ]	[ "Nature", "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Religion", "Living", "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Photography & Film", "Nature/Landscapes & Pastorals", "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict", "Religion/Judaism", "Living/Death & Dying", "Living/Mourning", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
95bc65fa3748cf25	Don’t Be Flip	Todd Boss	when you drop your mate at the dock or your children at school. Don’t be cool. Don’t be coy. Or if you do, don’t assume it’s okay to act that way. For today may be your last chance at joy before it flashes away like a tin toy in one...	[ "S3", "S8" ]	[]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Relationships" ]	[]
0aee9ba9806e1f3a	Taking the Thought for the Dog	Katharine Auchincloss Lorr	I plan to be the world authority on peafowl. Believe I'll be offered a chair someday at the chicken college. —Flannery O'Connor Certainly are nice to want to give me that dog. I raise peacocks— you can't keep dogs and them on the same place. People come here have to leave the dog in the car else the peachickens take t...	[ "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S8-4", "S8-5", "S8-8" ]	[ "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Relationships/Friendship", "Relationships/Home Life", "Relationships/Pets & Domestic Animals" ]
23c824ccf76e9867	National Account	Joel Craig	How do you recognize a lovely place? The rotten anthropology of superheroes hovers above the conference table, exhausted on the idea of dazzling people. A plugged organization of the moon like a turnpike undecorated by barely legal children — true stories end in the moody doctor city but I always say the wrong t...	[ "S3", "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S10-2" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Language & Linguistics" ]
1263f21bb809534d	Skipper Ireson’s Ride	John Greenleaf Whittier	Of all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme, — On Apuleius’s Golden Ass, Or one-eyed Calender’s horse of brass, Witch astride of a human back, Islam’s prophet on Al-Borák, — The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Ireson’s, out from Marblehead! Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, ...	[ "S2", "S3", "S4", "S9" ]	[ "S2-6", "S3-6", "S9-7" ]	[ "Nature", "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Activities" ]	[ "Nature/Bodies of Water", "Social Commentaries/Incarceration & Justice", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
5a8ebcdcae125996	Punk Half Panther	Juan Felipe Herrera	Lissen to the whistle of night bats—oye como va, in the engines, in the Chevys & armed Impalas, the Toyota gangsta’ monsters, surf of new world colony definitions & quasars & culture prostars going blam over the Mpire, the once-Mpire, carcass neural desies for the Nothing. i amble outside the Goddess mounta...	[ "S3", "S4", "S6", "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S3-1", "S3-2", "S3-7", "S3-8", "S3-11", "S8-3", "S10-2", "S10-6" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Living", "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Language & Linguistics", "Arts & Sciences/Poetry & Poets", "Social Commentaries/Cities & Urban Life", "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict", "Social Commentaries/Class & Labor", "Social Commentaries/Popular Culture", "Social Commentaries/Race & Ethnicity", "Relationships/Family & Ances...
41b6530faf317a0e	The Preacher’s Daughter	Victoria Kennefick	We drink too much pineapple rum, straight from the bottle,bitch about the red-haired girl, the fetish model,a preacher’s daughter with a thing for unreasonable shoes.From her faded patchwork quilt, bleedinghearts, we watched her mutate into a PVC Alice Liddell.How did she manage in seven-inch patent heels?She was tall ...	[ "S1", "S3", "S6" ]	[ "S1-1", "S3-4" ]	[ "Love", "Social Commentaries", "Living" ]	[ "Love/Desire & Erotic Love", "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality" ]
7bc1549ff6c9b028	Some Last Questions	W. S. Merwin	What is the head a. Ash What are the eyes a. The wells have fallen in and have Inhabitants What are the feet a. Thumbs left after the auction No what are the feet a. Under them the i...	[ "S2", "S6" ]	[]	[ "Nature", "Living" ]	[]
968d983d604b0df5	To -- -- --. Ulalume: A Ballad	Edgar Allan Poe	The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crispéd and sere— The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir— It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, ...	[ "S2", "S6", "S7", "S8", "S9", "S11" ]	[ "S2-7", "S6-4", "S9-7" ]	[ "Nature", "Living", "Time & Brevity", "Relationships", "Activities", "Mythology & Folklore" ]	[ "Nature/Landscapes & Pastorals", "Living/Death & Dying", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
7877b229a1ecd8ca	I Abide and Abide and Better Abide	Sir Thomas Wyatt	I abide and abide and better abide, And after the old proverb, the happy day; And ever my lady to me doth say, "Let me alone and I will provide." I abide and abide and tarry the tide, And with abiding speed well ye may. Thus do I abide I wot alway, Nother obtaining nor yet denied. Ay me! this long abiding Seemeth to me...	[ "S6" ]	[]	[ "Living" ]	[]
12d7fc8a7c79ee87	[under the evening moon]	Kobayashi Issa	Under the evening moon the snail is stripped to the waist.	[ "S8" ]	[ "S8-8" ]	[ "Relationships" ]	[ "Relationships/Pets & Domestic Animals" ]
1c0d7af3da09a3a9	Heaven, 1963	Kim Noriega	It’s my favorite photo— captioned, “Daddy and His Sweetheart.” It’s in black and white, it’s before Pabst Blue Ribbon, before his tongue became a knife that made my mother bleed, and before he blackened my eye the time he thought I meant to end my life. He’s standing in our yard on Porter Road beneath the old chestnut ...	[ "S6", "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S6-7", "S8-5", "S10-7" ]	[ "Living", "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Photography & Film", "Living/Parenthood", "Relationships/Home Life" ]
45d930064a9c9f58	From Our Correspondent in: Theatre Square, Dresden	Valerio Magrelli	Don't let's hang about on the cobblestones. The equestrian statue—keep going—represents the king. Yes, the Dante translator. Now let's move on. Lovely theatre, first rate, but no point in dawdling because this paving is contaminated (a nuclear accident near the quarry) and here we are already like ghosts on this X-ray ...	[ "S3", "S4", "S9" ]	[ "S9-7" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Activities" ]	[ "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
e4d7d000e020c119	Play in Which Darkness Falls	Frank Stanford	Raymond Roussel Two girls runaway from the Home. They have a revolver in their possession. The Sisters Of Our Lady have given up looking for them, returning in the night with soft candles. The sleek clouds have thrown their riders, and the bees are returning to the honey, the clover at the edge of the cliff bla...	[ "S2", "S9", "S10" ]	[ "S9-7", "S10-10" ]	[ "Nature", "Activities", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Theater & Dance", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
9e82fc89caf1367c	The Town Dump	Howard Nemerov	“The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.” A mile out in the marshes, under a sky Which seems to be always going away In a hurry, on that Venetian land threaded With hidden canals, you will find the city Which seconds ours (so cemeteries, too, Reflect a town from hillsides out o...	[ "S2", "S3", "S4", "S6", "S7" ]	[ "S2-7", "S3-1", "S4-1" ]	[ "Nature", "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Living", "Time & Brevity" ]	[ "Nature/Landscapes & Pastorals", "Social Commentaries/Cities & Urban Life", "History & Politics/Money & Economics" ]
b1982de9e453af14	A Dialogue between Old England and New	Anne Bradstreet	New England. Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, What ails thee hang thy head, and cross thine arms, And sit i’ the dust to sigh these sad alarms? What deluge of new woes thus over-whelm The glories of thy ever famous Realm? What means this wailing tone, this mourn...	[ "S3", "S4", "S5", "S11" ]	[ "S3-11", "S5-2", "S5-7", "S11-4" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Religion", "Mythology & Folklore" ]	[ "Mythology & Folklore/Heroes & Patriotism", "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict", "Religion/Christianity", "Religion/Other Religions" ]
2d54bb9a48f90601	from Epigrams: A Journal, #20	J. V. Cunningham	After some years Bohemian came to this— This Maenad with hair down and gaping kiss Wild on the barren edge of under fifty. She would finance his art if he were thrifty.	[ "S3", "S8" ]	[ "S3-4" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Relationships" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality" ]
cc1b6e1857e7e843	Filleadh ón Antartach [Return from Antarctica]	Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh	Cloiseann sé fós é: díoscán an oighir,tormáil i bhfad uaidh,ciúnas an tsneachta.Is cuimhin leis go fóillan t-aer úr a shlogadh,an dá scamhóg aige glanta,fuacht naofa ag beannú a chnis.Thug sé grá a chroídon ghoimh gheal,don díseart tostachdon tírdhreach glan.Ach b’éigean dó filleadh ar an taiseacht is ar an mbaile.Bhí ...	[ "S2", "S9" ]	[ "S2-7", "S9-7" ]	[ "Nature", "Activities" ]	[ "Nature/Landscapes & Pastorals", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
450afb19b7c11ec2	Iambicum Trimetrum	Edmund Spenser	Unhappy verse, the witness of my unhappy state, Make thy self flutt'ring wings of thy fast flying Thought, and fly forth unto my love, wheresoever she be: Whether lying restless in heavy bed, or else Sitting so cheerless at the cheerful board, or else Playing alone careless on her heavenly virginals. If...	[ "S1", "S8" ]	[ "S1-1", "S1-4", "S1-6", "S1-9" ]	[ "Love", "Relationships" ]	[ "Love/Desire & Erotic Love", "Love/Infatuation & Crushes", "Love/Realistic & Complicated", "Love/Unrequited Love" ]
93c0b82831d9c895	Morte d'Arthur	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	So all day long the noise of battle roll'd Among the mountains by the winter sea; Until King Arthur's table, man by man, Had fallen in Lyonnesse about their Lord, King Arthur: then, because his wound was deep, The bold Sir Bedivere uplifted him, Sir Bedivere, the last of all his knights, And bore him to a chapel nigh t...	[ "S6", "S11" ]	[ "S6-4", "S6-5", "S11-1" ]	[ "Living", "Mythology & Folklore" ]	[ "Mythology & Folklore/Fairy-tales & Legends", "Living/Death & Dying", "Living/Mourning" ]
12faf4268ffc1661	My Autumn Leaves	Bruce Weigl	I watch the woods for deer as if I’m armed. I watch the woods for deer who never come. I know the hes and shes in autumn rendezvous in orchards stained with fallen apples’ scent. I drive my car this way to work so I may let the crows in corn believe it’s me their caws are meant to warn, and snakes who turn in wa...	[ "S2", "S9" ]	[ "S2-3", "S2-5", "S9-5" ]	[ "Nature", "Activities" ]	[ "Nature/Fall", "Nature/Animals", "Activities/Sports & Outdoor Activities" ]
41966115497b0471	Wampum	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	In the early contact period, New England Indian wampum consisted of small tubular-shaped shells drilled and strung as beads.— Alfred A. Cave The breaking of clouds begins with seizure. A man grabs another, reasons ransom. A murder averted in the thing’s scheme.A cape’s shell transformed, more than one supposed. What s...	[ "S3", "S4" ]	[ "S3-8", "S3-11" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict", "Social Commentaries/Race & Ethnicity" ]
a4c1af004d119d38	Sergeant-Major Money	Robert Graves	It wasn't our battalion, but we lay alongside it, So the story is as true as the telling is frank. They hadn't one Line-officer left, after Arras, Except a batty major and the Colonel, who drank. 'B' Company Commander was fresh from the Depot, An expert on gas drill, otherwise a dud; So Sergeant-Major Money...	[ "S3", "S4", "S10" ]	[ "S3-11", "S4-1" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict", "History & Politics/Money & Economics" ]
873d07cc9ca95b7a	Appeal to the Grammarians	Paul Violi	We, the naturally hopeful, Need a simple sign For the myriad ways we’re capsized. We who love precise language Need a finer way to convey Disappointment and perplexity. For speechlessness and all its inflections, For up-ended expectations, For every time we’re ambushed By trivial or stupefying irony, For pure...	[ "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S10-2" ]	[ "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Language & Linguistics" ]
bb3289c1825dca6e	Reaching Yellow River	Roberta Hill	“It isn’t a game for girls,” he said, grabbing a fifth with his right hand, the wind with his left. “For six days I raced Jack Daniels. He cheated, told jokes. Some weren’t even funny. That’s how come he won. It took a long time to reach this Yellow River. I’m not yet thirty, or is it thirty-one? Figured a...	[ "S3", "S4", "S8", "S9", "S10" ]	[ "S3-8", "S3-11", "S8-3", "S9-7", "S10-8" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Relationships", "Activities", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Reading & Books", "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict", "Social Commentaries/Race & Ethnicity", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
0d8cea5edf58c066	five-story house in laleli	Gisela Kraft	one lies in rags on the street and his stomach is empty and he wishes for death one sits with friends at tea and backgammon and his mind is empty and he wishes for death one sits in a straight-backed chair at a desk and his bank account is empty and he wishes for death one lies in bed staring out to sea and t...	[ "S3", "S6" ]	[ "S6-5" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living" ]	[ "Living/Mourning" ]
e241745558e94310	How to Look at Mexican Highways	Mónica de la Torre	1. You are not going anywhere. 1.1. No one is waiting for you. 1.2. In case someone is waiting for you, you can always explain the delay later. 1.3. Blame it on the traffic, no one else knows that you chose to walk. 2. Don’t look at the pavement, look at the things that y...	[ "S3", "S9" ]	[ "S9-7" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Activities" ]	[ "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
679d36fc2ef50639	Amoretti LXXXI: Fayre is my love, when her fayre golden heares	Edmund Spenser	Fayre is my love, when her fayre golden heares, With the loose wynd ye waving chance to marke: Fayre when the rose in her red cheekes appears, Or in her eyes the fyre of love does sparke. Fayre when her brest lyke a rich laden barke, With pretious merchandize she forth doth lay: Fayre when that cloud of pryde which oft...	[ "S1" ]	[ "S1-1", "S1-4", "S1-7" ]	[ "Love" ]	[ "Love/Desire & Erotic Love", "Love/Infatuation & Crushes", "Love/Romantic Love" ]
2f3e271fa3f61460	Immortality	Matthew Arnold	Foil'd by our fellow-men, depress'd, outworn, We leave the brutal world to take its way, And, Patience! in another life, we say The world shall be thrust down, and we up-borne. And will not, then, the immortal armies scorn The world's poor, routed leavings? or will they, Who fail'd under the heat of this life's day, Su...	[ "S5", "S6" ]	[ "S5-3", "S6-4" ]	[ "Religion", "Living" ]	[ "Religion/Faith & Doubt", "Living/Death & Dying" ]
90b5487a11e94711	Poem in Spanish	Mónica de la Torre	The grave has more power than the eyes of the beloved. An open grave with all its magnets. This weight on the wings. The sky is waiting for an airship. I have the feeling that I haven’t got much life left. Three hours after the celestial attack. Why don’t I respond when I’m being offended? Because my religion doe...	[ "S3", "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S6-4", "S10-6" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Poetry & Poets", "Living/Death & Dying" ]
f4e0487b33bb30cd	Bunch of Stuff	John Ashbery	To all events I squirted youknowing this not to be this came to passwhen we were out and it looked good.Why wouldn’t you want a fresh pieceof outlook to stand in down the years?See, your house, a former human energy construction,crashed with us for a few days in Mayand sure enough, the polar inscapebrought about some e...	[ "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S10-6" ]	[ "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Poetry & Poets" ]
e25fe31395e10628	Phrasis	Wendy Xu	Stilled as in image, at dawn sliding into blue harbor, boats clang, where does hethe man I imagine gripping several ropesreturn from. Is he conflicted, does heperceive the sky oscillating like a dimmer machine, a mouth, a war, languagenot declaring its mosteffective self, bellum grazing evernearer to beauty, a possible...	[ "S9", "S10" ]	[ "S9-7", "S10-2" ]	[ "Activities", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Language & Linguistics", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
5419cfc6d3f59e12	Crossing the Loire	Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin	I saluted the famous river as I do every year Turning south as if the plough steered, Kicking, at the start of a new furrow, my back To the shady purple gardens with benches under plum trees By the river that hunts between piers and sandbanks— I began threading the long bridge, I bowed my head And lifted my hands...	[ "S9" ]	[ "S9-7" ]	[ "Activities" ]	[ "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
61dad99ad847cbc3	Leaves Fell	Juhan Liiv	A gust roused the waves, leaves blew into the water, the waves were ash-gray, the sky tin-gray, ash-gray the autumn. It was good for my heart: there my feelings were ash-gray, the sky tin-gray, ash-gray the autumn. The breath of wind brought cooler air, the waves of mourning brought separation: autumn and au...	[ "S2", "S6" ]	[ "S2-3", "S6-5" ]	[ "Nature", "Living" ]	[ "Nature/Fall", "Living/Mourning" ]
893bb720f9d23d50	Tourists	Lynn Emanuel	In Tunis we try to discuss divorce And dying but give up to lounge With rug merchants under a plum tree. From its corner the lamb’s severed head Watches the flies drink from its eyes And its fat disappear into the fire. The light rinses the edge of your sandal, The two wasps that ornament the blur Of screened w...	[ "S6", "S8", "S9" ]	[ "S6-6", "S8-1", "S9-7" ]	[ "Living", "Relationships", "Activities" ]	[ "Living/Health & Illness", "Relationships/Breakups & Separation", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
6f1e5ac9ee3617b1	Lauderdale	Laura Newbern	At dusk, the grandmother sits alone in the light of the long pale pool and speaks to the frog who is waiting by the electric gate of the clubhouse. It will be all right, she says, leaning out from her chair. Her voice is churning, and old, and wet with advice. Her newly red hair purples under the bug light. It will be ...	[ "S2", "S6" ]	[ "S2-7", "S6-1" ]	[ "Nature", "Living" ]	[ "Nature/Landscapes & Pastorals", "Living/Aging" ]
490d748a856d5a88	Stemming from Stevens	Lisa Williams	It’s not enough to cover the rock with leaves — as if vernal fluidities could be enough for the stern assault of fact. As if a living ornament, light and subject to temporal breezes, could be enough to overcome despair, that chunk of something solid in the air, unmoving, as words repeated are. It’s not enough to ...	[ "S2", "S6" ]	[]	[ "Nature", "Living" ]	[]
4a72e955703d808b	This Little Island	James Longenbach	1 Outside the room where you have lived a long time Are other rooms, another building, just like yours. Each night a ship sails past, wider than the building, taller than the highest church. And though the passengers would like to visit the city, No one in the city ever boards the ship. Would you? Each night this...	[ "S3", "S6", "S7" ]	[ "S3-1", "S6-1", "S6-8" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living", "Time & Brevity" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Cities & Urban Life", "Living/Aging", "Living/Youth" ]
e458ece0ed5ae5f1	When All Hands Were Called to Make Sail	Rachel Zucker	for Spalding Gray The West and North winds both lover us, wanting, bitter, to bring us in close in the small hold. Tongues loll and laze, while the flap and snapping above: crazy wanderlust. The basin must cradle, keep her passengers, though the hero abandoned the ferry for the real sea. Is nothing worthy? ...	[ "S2", "S6", "S8" ]	[ "S2-6", "S6-7", "S8-3" ]	[ "Nature", "Living", "Relationships" ]	[ "Nature/Bodies of Water", "Living/Parenthood", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
b92bec4b21663c22	Annotations for a Memorial	Carolina Ebeid	Something so light almost nothingNot a list of violencesnor reports from beauty One person looks up & then another after another looking up in the same direction Who took this picture of Fight ghost town this is Palestine	[ "S3", "S4", "S6" ]	[ "S3-11", "S6-5" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Living" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict", "Living/Mourning" ]
be0665cf3d7f1f85	October	Robert Frost	O hushed October morning mild,Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,Should waste them all.The crows above the forest call;Tomorrow they may form and go.O hushed October morning mild,Begin the hours of this day slow.Make the day seem to us less brief.Hearts not averse to being beguiled,Begui...	[ "S2" ]	[ "S2-3", "S2-8" ]	[ "Nature" ]	[ "Nature/Fall", "Nature/Plants & Fungi" ]
d8b069590d83ba66	Liberty	Archibald MacLeish	When liberty is headlong girl And runs her roads and wends her ways Liberty will shriek and whirl Her showery torch to see it blaze. When liberty is wedded wife And keeps the barn and counts the byre Liberty amends her life. She drowns her torch for fear of fire.	[ "S3" ]	[]	[ "Social Commentaries" ]	[]
8b4135a5f8a011f0	This Little Piggy	Mother Goose	This little piggy went to market, This little piggy stayed home, This little piggy had roast beef, This little piggy had none. This little piggy went ... Wee, wee, wee, all the way home!	[ "S11" ]	[ "S11-1" ]	[ "Mythology & Folklore" ]	[ "Mythology & Folklore/Fairy-tales & Legends" ]
b7cf820276177a5c	Taking Time to Grow	Mary Mapes Dodge	‘Mamma! mamma!’ two eaglets cried, ‘To let us fly you’ve never tried. We want to go outside and play; We’ll promise not to go away.’ The mother wisely shook her head: ‘No, no, my dears. Not yet,’ she said. ‘But, mother dear,’ they called again, ‘We want to see those things called men, And all the world so grand and gay...	[ "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S6-7", "S10-5" ]	[ "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Living/Parenthood" ]
f95e6c4d3e889f9c	A Story	Hayan Charara	Some will call the suicide bomber a coward but seeing him you think only, Hungry, stumbling as he is toward you, to the tent where pilgrims stop to eat and drink. Behind you a woman in a black robe scoops rice with her fingers. Beside her a girl, restless, runs out onto the dusty two-lane road that the bomber...	[ "S3", "S6" ]	[ "S3-11" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict" ]
6201b78a20c18caf	Multiple Sclerosis	Cynthia Huntington	For ten years I would not say the name. I said: episode. Said: setback, incident, exacerbation—anything but be specific in the way this is specific, not a theory or description, but a diagnosis. I said: muscle, weakness, numbness, fatigue. I said vertigo, neuritis, lesion, spasm. Remission. Progression. Recurren...	[ "S6" ]	[ "S6-6" ]	[ "Living" ]	[ "Living/Health & Illness" ]
35d4125f3ec94ae2	Ode for the American Dead in Asia	Thomas McGrath	1. God love you now, if no one else will ever, Corpse in the paddy, or dead on a high hill In the fine and ruinous summer of a war You never wanted. All your false flags were Of bravery and ignorance, like grade school maps: Colors of countries you would never see— Until that weekend in eternity When, laughing,...	[ "S3", "S4", "S5", "S6" ]	[ "S3-11", "S5-4", "S6-4" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Religion", "Living" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict", "Religion/God & the Divine", "Living/Death & Dying" ]
78036342c9219435	Scale	Helen Mort	My weight is four whippets, two Chinese gymnasts, half a shot-putter. It can be measured in bags of sugar, jam jars, enough feathers for sixty pillows, or a ﬂock of dead birds but some days it’s more than the house, the span of Blair Athol Road. I’m the Crooked Spire warping itself, doubled up over town. ...	[ "S1", "S6", "S9" ]	[ "S1-7", "S9-7" ]	[ "Love", "Living", "Activities" ]	[ "Love/Romantic Love", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
4c0d9be0b2506ff9	My Sea	Alice Notley	What I lose you let me, accusationalways gets one in. But I want to talk like the deadremember that town where we went orhow do I know when I’m just a soul — not when I’m leading?A soul can lead, fight and kill; in the sketchy rainthere, but you can’t kill where we’re dead. That’sthe best thing — no one has any p...	[ "S2", "S5", "S6" ]	[ "S2-6", "S5-8" ]	[ "Nature", "Religion", "Living" ]	[ "Nature/Bodies of Water", "Religion/The Spiritual" ]
e319edf99fa6a9b2	Oxtail Stew	David Dominguez	At five o’clock in the morning, I walked to work and passed the green ponds of Horizon Park where the last bluegill, caught on the low, slight bank, panted hard in the dark mud, crushed glass, sour bottle caps, whiskey, and the iron weight of heat and smog. This haze stared through eyes gray as the broken windo...	[ "S2", "S3", "S9" ]	[ "S2-7", "S3-2", "S9-1", "S9-4" ]	[ "Nature", "Social Commentaries", "Activities" ]	[ "Nature/Landscapes & Pastorals", "Social Commentaries/Class & Labor", "Activities/Eating & Drinking", "Activities/Jobs & Working" ]
193f28d31ef7bf54	Xian of Eight Rivers	Curzio Malaparte	China is made of earth, of sun-dried mud. In this part of China everything is made from the earth: the houses, the walls around cities, and villages, the tombs scattered over the countryside. Even the people. There are hills below that appear to be piles of mud set out to dry in the sun, naked, without a single ...	[ "S3", "S9" ]	[ "S3-9", "S9-7" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Activities" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Rural & Country Life", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
9f7961ff6b11309e	[OFTEN WHEN HE WAS ADVANCING]	Charles Juliet	often when he was advancing feeling his way in the night he was doubtful rebelled wanted to climb back up to the old light but a force held him enjoined him to pursue to venture once more once again into the thickest darkness of his shadow one day at the height of his distress emptied of all force driven to see that...	[ "S5" ]	[ "S5-3" ]	[ "Religion" ]	[ "Religion/Faith & Doubt" ]
600b59d924087a7b	Memory	Farnoosh Fathi	Over the night a bull Whispers into a coal :Unmeant in the stall to sit and plate, But sixth, with all the senses, To consume— Incorporate— those signal Impressions which are (we know) its fate: In explosions, in hard strides, His coattails fly; to bits, to friends Craven and brave. Sadness undulates at their...	[ "S2" ]	[ "S2-5" ]	[ "Nature" ]	[ "Nature/Animals" ]
d861ad0565fbefb5	Our God, Our Help	Isaac Watts	Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home: Under the shadow of thy throne Thy saints have dwelt secure; Sufficient is thine arm alone, And our defense is sure. Before the hills in order stood Or earth received her frame, From everl...	[ "S5" ]	[ "S5-2", "S5-4" ]	[ "Religion" ]	[ "Religion/Christianity", "Religion/God & the Divine" ]
96e9c16dd8904d1a	"Pease porridge hot,"	Mother Goose	Pease porridge hot, Pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot Nine days old.	[ "S9" ]	[ "S9-1" ]	[ "Activities" ]	[ "Activities/Eating & Drinking" ]
4fd03b5d10292910	Mother and Daughter	Hayan Charara	The mother says, I am afraid. The daughter says, I am afraid. The mother says, My feet are cold. The daughter says, My feet are cold. The mother says, The car is sinking. The daughter says Yes, the car is sinking. The mother says, The water is heavy, and the daughter says, The water is very heavy. The mother sa...	[ "S6", "S7" ]	[ "S6-4" ]	[ "Living", "Time & Brevity" ]	[ "Living/Death & Dying" ]
145a2f6063eabf02	Seth Compton	Edgar Lee Masters	When I died, the circulating library Which I built up for Spoon River, And managed for the good of inquiring minds, Was sold at auction on the public square, As if to destroy the last vestige Of my memory and influence. For those of you who could not see the virtue Of knowing Volney's "Ruins" as well as Butler's "Analo...	[ "S3", "S10" ]	[ "S10-5", "S10-8" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Arts & Sciences/Reading & Books" ]
3cceee09aa39db78	Mending Wall	Robert Frost	Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would ...	[ "S2", "S8" ]	[ "S2-7", "S8-4" ]	[ "Nature", "Relationships" ]	[ "Nature/Landscapes & Pastorals", "Relationships/Friendship" ]
5f69b0825e48f612	“Alone”	Edgar Allan Poe	From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring— From the same source I have not taken My sorrow—I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone— And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone— Then—in my childhood—in the dawn Of a most stormy lif...	[ "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S6-3", "S10-5" ]	[ "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Living/Coming of Age" ]
29c3535b76cd5fdf	Head of Anahit/British Museum	Peter Balakian	For Michael Coyle and Donna Frieze 1 You said anyone could walk in with a pack of explosives as we passed through the crowds of tourists and school kids — under the glass-grid ceiling lit with sun. I was saying: She’s our earth, our body, our sex, as we drifted down the halls of statues and colonnades and hunk...	[ "S3", "S4", "S6", "S9", "S10" ]	[ "S3-11", "S9-7", "S10-4" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Living", "Activities", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Painting & Sculpture", "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
e96ce3393630fcce	A Maul for Bill and Cindy’s Wedding	Gary Snyder	Swung from the toes out, Belly-breath riding on the knuckles, The ten-pound maul lifts up, Sails in an arc overhead, And then lifts you! It floats, you float, For an instant of clear far sight— Eye on the crack in the end-grain Angle of the oak round Stood up to wait to be split. The maul falls—with a sigh—th...	[ "S1", "S6", "S8", "S9" ]	[ "S1-6", "S8-7", "S9-4" ]	[ "Love", "Living", "Relationships", "Activities" ]	[ "Love/Realistic & Complicated", "Relationships/Marriage & Companionship", "Activities/Jobs & Working" ]
925be93e164860c9	Asking the Way	Ko Un	You fools who ask what god is should ask what life is instead. Find a port where lemon trees bloom. Ask about places to drink in the port. Ask about the drinkers. Ask about the lemon trees. Ask and ask until nothing’s left to ask. Translated from the Korean	[ "S5", "S6", "S9" ]	[ "S5-8", "S6-2", "S9-1", "S9-7" ]	[ "Religion", "Living", "Activities" ]	[ "Religion/The Spiritual", "Living/Birth & Infancy", "Activities/Eating & Drinking", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
75f4adad6380e2b3	Wildpeace	Yehuda Amichai	Not the peace of a cease-fire,not even the vision of the wolf and the lamb,but ratheras in the heart when the excitement is overand you can talk only about a great weariness.I know that I know how to kill,that makes me an adult.And my son plays with a toy gun that knowshow to open and close its eyes and say Mama.A peac...	[ "S3", "S4", "S6", "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S3-11", "S8-3", "S10-5" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Living", "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
038ae41b92264429	Dreamwood	Adrienne Rich	In the old, scratched, cheap wood of the typing stand there is a landscape, veined, which only a child can see or the child’s older self, a poet, a woman dreaming when she should be typing the last report of the day. If this were a map, she thinks, a map laid down to memorize because she might be walking it, it s...	[ "S3", "S6", "S10" ]	[ "S3-4", "S10-6" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Poetry & Poets", "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality" ]
b520832c1ed2ea32	Movement Song	Audre Lorde	I have studied the tight curls on the back of your neck moving away from me beyond anger or failure your face in the evening schools of longing through mornings of wish and ripen we were always saying goodbye in the blood in the bone over coffee before dashing for elevators going in opposite directions without...	[ "S1", "S6", "S8" ]	[ "S1-1", "S1-3", "S1-6", "S1-7", "S8-7" ]	[ "Love", "Living", "Relationships" ]	[ "Love/Desire & Erotic Love", "Love/Heartache & Loss", "Love/Realistic & Complicated", "Love/Romantic Love", "Relationships/Marriage & Companionship" ]
de3d57dbbb47f760	A Way of Being	Barbara Guest	There we go in cars, did you guess we wore sandals? Carrying the till, memorizing its numbers, apt at the essential such as rearranging languages. They occur from route to route like savages who wear shells. “I cannot place him.” Yet I do. He must ascend indefinitely as airs he must regard his image as plastic, ...	[ "S9" ]	[ "S9-7" ]	[ "Activities" ]	[ "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
42a687359d7c542c	The Unfastening	Wesley McNair	As the father turns away from the thought of his failure, the hands remove his glasses and rub his eyes over and over, drying the nonexistent tears. Unknown to the one who is troubled about losing his hair, his fingers stroke his baldness as he speaks. The body, our constant companion, understands the lonelines...	[ "S6" ]	[ "S6-1" ]	[ "Living" ]	[ "Living/Aging" ]
915566a7ea06e6a0	Kick the Heart	Ray Gonzalez	Kick in the heart. Kick the starting lance. Throw the ground a word and stand back. The color of terror is the envy on body rags, the dragonfly war scraped off a painting inside the door. Kick the shame. Kick the falling dawn as fortunate. Throw the corrupted guest out the door. A sequence of rhythms bound for...	[ "S6", "S8" ]	[]	[ "Living", "Relationships" ]	[]
48e60a836064b4a8	A Little Closer Though, If You Can, for What Got Lost Here	Carl Phillips	Other than that, all was still — a quiet so quiet that, as if silence were a kind of spell, and words the way to break it, they began speaking. They spoke of many things: sunset as a raft leaving the water in braids behind it; detachment, the soul, obedience; swans rowing at nightfall across a sky fil...	[ "S6" ]	[ "S6-1" ]	[ "Living" ]	[ "Living/Aging" ]
57a072c46c8d03ff	The Beastangel	Alison C. Rollins	After Robert Hayden’s “Bone-Flower Elegy” In the dream I enter him I the eater of numbers the black-lipped barcode of cost have come for him because he owes me. He owes me the broken machine the bone structure gone limp over leg of time. I irreverent as safe sex breathlessly whispering this is not a...	[ "S3", "S6", "S7" ]	[ "S3-4", "S6-8" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living", "Time & Brevity" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality", "Living/Youth" ]
92a43423bb2504c8	The End of Marriage	Lavinia Greenlaw	Night was and they swayed into it:a pair of scissors, of sailsturning only into themselvesmore other than become.It is often five o’clock. Her husband has contracted not to speak of her and she has forgotten where to go. Where does everyone go?	[ "S6", "S8" ]	[ "S8-1" ]	[ "Living", "Relationships" ]	[ "Relationships/Breakups & Separation" ]
f7af867d7f4c1956	Dakota Homecoming	Gwen Nell Westerman	We are so honored that you are here, they said. We know that this is your homeland, they said. The admission price is five dollars, they said. Here is your button for the event, they said. It means so much to us that you are here, they said. We...	[ "S3", "S4", "S8" ]	[ "S3-11", "S8-3" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Relationships" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
83c646f5a545acf5	An Appeal to Women	Sarah Louisa Forten	Oh, woman, woman in thy brightest hour Of conscious worth, of pride, of conscious power Oh, nobly dare to act a Christian’s part, That well befits a lovely woman’s heart! Dare to be good, as thou canst dare be great; Despise the taunts of envy, scorn and hate; Our ‘skins may differ,’ but from thee we claim A sister’s p...	[ "S3" ]	[ "S3-4", "S3-8" ]	[ "Social Commentaries" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality", "Social Commentaries/Race & Ethnicity" ]
bf8de8bf5c409897	The Country Whore	Cesare Pavese	The big front wall that blocks off the courtyard often catches the newborn light of the sun like the side of a barn. The body awakes in the morning to a room, messy and empty, that smells of the first, clumsy perfume. Even that body, wrapped now in sheets, is the same that it was when it thrilled in discovery. H...	[ "S1", "S3", "S6", "S8" ]	[ "S3-4", "S6-3" ]	[ "Love", "Social Commentaries", "Living", "Relationships" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality", "Living/Coming of Age" ]
fafdf029e1c40a99	An American Sunrise	Joy Harjo	We were running out of breath, as we ran out to meet ourselves. We were surfacing the edge of our ancestors’ fights, and ready to strike. It was difficult to lose days in the Indian bar if you were straight. Easy if you played pool and drank to remember to forget. We made plans to be professional — and did. And som...	[ "S3", "S4", "S6", "S7", "S9" ]	[ "S3-8", "S6-5", "S9-1", "S9-4" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Living", "Time & Brevity", "Activities" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Race & Ethnicity", "Living/Mourning", "Activities/Eating & Drinking", "Activities/Jobs & Working" ]
83afb568f4d4f791	Ariel	Sylvia Plath	Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue Pour of tor and distances. God’s lioness, How one we grow, Pivot of heels and knees!—The furrow Splits and passes, sister to The brown arc Of the neck I cannot catch, Nigger-eye Berries cast dark Hooks— Black sweet blood mouthfuls, Shadows. Something else H...	[ "S3", "S6" ]	[]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living" ]	[]
644537c1b8b6815d	Experience	Ralph Waldo Emerson	The lords of life, the lords of life,— I saw them pass, In their own guise, Like and unlike, Portly and grim,— Use and Surprise, Surface and Dream, Succession swift and spectral Wrong, Temperament without a tongue, And the inventor of the game Omnipresent without name;— Some to see, some to be guessed, They marched fro...	[ "S6", "S7", "S10" ]	[ "S10-5" ]	[ "Living", "Time & Brevity", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy" ]
f016824a95787ba6	PATH Song	Roberto Harrison	waking to the news of an eventual collapse, those ejected minds of the walking thing of the speech of birds, they announce their own development from ashes to make a song and deliver the hunted landscape to its stars, those of us who knew something of the engine would remove the approach to animals as a second wind...	[ "S2", "S3", "S9" ]	[ "S2-5", "S2-6", "S3-1", "S9-7" ]	[ "Nature", "Social Commentaries", "Activities" ]	[ "Nature/Animals", "Nature/Bodies of Water", "Social Commentaries/Cities & Urban Life", "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
1eb77989301dc668	The Cenotaph	Charlotte Mew	Not yet will those measureless fields be green again Where only yesterday the wild sweet blood of wonderful youth was shed; There is a grave whose earth must hold too long, too deep a stain, Though for ever over it we may speak as proudly as we may tread. But here, where the watchers by lonely hearths from the thrust o...	[ "S3", "S4", "S6", "S8", "S11" ]	[ "S3-11", "S6-4", "S6-5", "S8-3", "S11-4" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics", "Living", "Relationships", "Mythology & Folklore" ]	[ "Mythology & Folklore/Heroes & Patriotism", "Social Commentaries/War & Conflict", "Living/Death & Dying", "Living/Mourning", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
113f6a202269c006	Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl	John Greenleaf Whittier	To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author “As the Spirits of Darkness be stronger in the dark, so Good Spirits, which be Angels of Light, are augmented not only by the Divine light of the Sun, but also by our common Wood Fire: and as the Celestial Fire drives away dark spirits, ...	[ "S2", "S5", "S6", "S8", "S10" ]	[ "S2-4", "S2-10", "S8-3", "S8-5", "S10-5", "S10-8" ]	[ "Nature", "Religion", "Living", "Relationships", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Philosophy", "Arts & Sciences/Reading & Books", "Nature/Weather", "Nature/Winter", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors", "Relationships/Home Life" ]
3001e73cc2602ab5	Looking at Maps	Elizabeth Arnold	If they'd had writing in time, Cuba could have been Crete, watery source of the Minoans and thus the Greeks. What's lost? A possible us growing like new foliage out of stony ground, emerging? Last voice, first, a whole world calling— awful, inaudible—into the unstoppable loud (roaring!) hurricane-force sea wind.	[ "S3", "S4" ]	[]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics" ]	[]
36aadd924567f2c2	The Things in Black Men’s Closets	E. Ethelbert Miller	on the top shelf of the closet is the hat my father wears on special occasions it rests next to the large jar he saves pennies in his head is always bare when i see him walking in the street i once sat in his bedroom watching him search between sweaters and suits looking for something missing a tie perhaps...	[ "S3", "S6", "S8" ]	[ "S3-8", "S6-4", "S8-3" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living", "Relationships" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Race & Ethnicity", "Living/Death & Dying", "Relationships/Family & Ancestors" ]
8c65896a15f96459	Lanat Abad / The Place of the Damned	Solmaz Sharif	this mangy plot whereby nowonly mothers still come,only mothers guard the nameless plots • and then sparingly• Peepholes burnt through the metal doorsof their solitary cells,• just large enoughfor three fingers to curl outfor a lemon to pass throughfor an ear to be held againstfor one eye then the otherto regard the ha...	[ "S3", "S6" ]	[ "S3-6" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "Living" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Incarceration & Justice" ]
4d3d133ebbfed41f	Metastasis: Worry-Moth	Claudia Emerson	yours is not the majestic Gypsythe Codling Luna Wax or granderAtlas with the appetiteof a plague entire fieldssuccumbing to them wholegenerations of bees this isthe unseen closeted unassuminggray that seeks out last winter’scloth another season drawnto the body’s scent what was i...	[ "S2", "S6" ]	[ "S2-5" ]	[ "Nature", "Living" ]	[ "Nature/Animals" ]
0091b8bfb9a92cad	The Properly Scholarly Attitude	Adelaide Crapsey	The poet pursues his beautiful theme; The preacher his golden beatitude; And I run after a vanishing dream— The glittering, will-o’-the-wispish gleam Of the properly scholarly attitude— The highly desirable, the very advisable, The hardly acquirable, properly scholarly attitude. I envy the savage without any c...	[ "S9", "S10" ]	[ "S9-4", "S9-6", "S10-8" ]	[ "Activities", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Reading & Books", "Activities/Jobs & Working", "Activities/Study & Knowledge" ]
13d34b1a9289051b	Venus of the Louvre	Emma Lazarus	Down the long hall she glistens like a star, The foam-born mother of Love, transfixed to stone, Yet none the less immortal, breathing on. Time's brutal hand hath maimed but could not mar. When first the enthralled enchantress from afar Dazzled mine eyes, I saw not her alone, Serenely poised on her world-worshipped thro...	[ "S1" ]	[ "S1-3" ]	[ "Love" ]	[ "Love/Heartache & Loss" ]
32ab0364820f1de0	Astrophil and Stella 63: O Grammar rules, O now your virtues show	Sir Philip Sidney	Highlight Actions Enable or disable annotations O Grammar rules, O now your virtues show; So children still readread To discern and discover you with awfulawful Archaic term for “awe-filled”. eyes, As my young Dove may in your precepts wise Her grant to me, by her own virtue know. For late with heart most hi...	[ "S1", "S3", "S8" ]	[ "S1-1", "S1-4", "S1-8", "S1-9", "S3-4" ]	[ "Love", "Social Commentaries", "Relationships" ]	[ "Love/Desire & Erotic Love", "Love/Infatuation & Crushes", "Love/Classic Love", "Love/Unrequited Love", "Social Commentaries/Gender & Sexuality" ]
599c7d07cbbc0ddc	At the School for the Gifted	Carol Muske-Dukes	Yes, I wanted them to levitate. Unfortunately, I hadn't a leg to stand on. Cut-out camels plodded across the blackboard's high sill. Yet the desert below refused to unfurl its mica wings. When I asked them to try to remember, to release a soap bubble from their marvelous arsenal of wands, they resisted. They line...	[ "S9" ]	[ "S9-7" ]	[ "Activities" ]	[ "Activities/Travels & Journeys" ]
12689b47b5fc0b9d	The Truth	James Tate	Mitzy fell asleep as soon as we got home, but I didn’t. The evening had upset me. Why did Jack keep asking me if I’d been married before? And why did my answer not satisfy him? It was probably just a bad joke. Jack’s humor is off sometimes. But he’s not a bad guy. Well, then I went to bed. When we woke up in the m...	[ "S1", "S6", "S8" ]	[ "S8-1", "S8-4", "S8-7" ]	[ "Love", "Living", "Relationships" ]	[ "Relationships/Breakups & Separation", "Relationships/Friendship", "Relationships/Marriage & Companionship" ]
f07bc2ee3a056463	Monk’s House, Rodmell	Carol Muske-Dukes	—for Lynne McMahon In her bedroom, she set a convex mirror on a stand, so that when the visitor looked in expecting to see the familiar line of lip and brow, what appeared instead was the head up-ended— the mouth a talking wound— above the eyes, upside down, fluttering, like the e...	[ "S5", "S10" ]	[ "S5-2", "S10-4" ]	[ "Religion", "Arts & Sciences" ]	[ "Arts & Sciences/Painting & Sculpture", "Religion/Christianity" ]
8aafc7546b23abe1	The Suburban Classes	Stevie Smith	There is far too much of the suburban classes Spiritually not geographically speaking. They’re asses. Menacing the greatness of our beloved England, they lie Propagating their kind in an eightroomed stye. Now I have a plan which I will enfold (There’s this to be said for them, they do as they’re told) Then tell t...	[ "S3", "S4" ]	[ "S3-2" ]	[ "Social Commentaries", "History & Politics" ]	[ "Social Commentaries/Class & Labor" ]
fc9b49f321b8ba93	Grip	Jericho Brown	If it had become a competition in which we, Like children desperate for the blue ribbon, Pulled knotted hemp, gripping until certain Of calluses, if our contest awarded the strongest,The boy who could best inflict pain yet not Flinch when injured, then you won, for I must Imagine the brown of your back to reach my P...	[ "S1" ]	[ "S1-6" ]	[ "Love" ]	[ "Love/Realistic & Complicated" ]

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