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0e4d8447bc2ef761 | Photographs | Ivor Gurney | (To Two Scots Lads)
Lying in dug-outs, joking idly, wearily; Watching the candle guttering in the draught; Hearing the great shells go high over us, eerily Singing; how often have I turned over, and laughed With pity and pride, photographs of all colours, All sizes, subjects: khaki brothers in France; Or mothe... | [
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3f6982b4712448f7 | The Labyrinth | Robert P. Baird | Torn turned and tatteredBowed burned and batteredI took untensed time by the teethAnd bade it bear me bankingOut over the walled welter cities and the seaThrough the lightsmocked birdpocked cloudcocked skyTo leave me light on a lilting planetesimal.The stone walls wailed and wh... | [
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3fee0bbfbf721888 | Nikita | Alberto Ríos | Under a heavy wire milk case,
A piece of concrete foundation
On top, in summer, in her backyard,
Mrs. Russo keeps the cat Nikita safe
From birds, from dogs, from eating
Johnson grass, which he throws up.
Nikita waits for ants to wander in
And for the sun to leave.
Instead, she comes to keep him
Company, saying... | [
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9d5309733783d078 | Get Rid of the X | Marilyn Chin | My shadow followed me to San Diego
silently, she never complained.
No green card, no identity pass,
she is wedded to my fate.
The moon is a drunk and anorectic,
constantly reeling, changing weight.
My shadow dances grotesquely,
resentful she can't leave me.
The moon mourns his unwritten novels,
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d61cddeae234cb63 | Except for Being, It Was Relatively Painless | Mary Jo Bang | It was relatively painless except for being
all she could see: a world made of dinner, very pleasant; a lunch
at something called a table in the dining room; an endless night;
a half-day; another lunch, this on Tuesday. Yesterday. Today.
Pieces propped up with supports. The therapist tapped his cigar.
He no longer... | [
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0a91afc8f8cf5345 | My Father Holds the Door for Yoko Ono | Christopher Chambers | In New York City for a conference on weed control, leaving the hotel in a cluster of horticulturalists, he alone stops, midwestern, crewcut, narrow blue tie, cufflinks, wingtips, holds the door for the Asian woman in a miniskirt and thigh high white leather boots. She nods slightly, a sad and beautiful gesture. Neither... | [
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723f8facb20ecc11 | Life | Anna Lætitia Barbauld | Animula, vagula, blandula.
Life! I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part; And when, or how, or where we met, I own to me’s a secret yet. But this I know, when thou art fled, Where’er they lay these limbs, this head, No clod so valueless shall be, As all that then remains of me... | [
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8f568e84b1149196 | Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out | Richard Siken | Every morning the maple leaves.
Every morning another chapter where the hero shifts
from one foot to the other. Every morning the same big
and little words all spelling out desire, all spelling out
You will be alone always and t... | [
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a6a65bb548d2e23b | Robin Hood | John Keats | TO A FRIEND
No! those days are gone away And their hours are old and gray, And their minutes buried all Under the down-trodden pall Of the leaves of many years: Many times have winter's shears, Frozen North, and chilling East, Sounded tempests to the feast Of the forest's whispering fleeces, Since men knew nor rent no... | [
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ef120ccd5993e5ca | Temple You | Lisa Russ Spaar | What is mysterious about loss, flush of arm pulled from a wilted sleeve,summer’s urine-tang in autumn leaves?Let John Keats light another fag.Or Brontë refuse the doctoron her black sateen settee.For whatever part of you may be taken away, you said,is the scar I will visit firstwith my mouth, each time, as gold vis... | [
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6dcea4e37c2e277c | Perhaps Not For You | Alice Notley | There is
no
audience
because
there is
no audience.
So if you speak only to
imagined beings
what does "only" mean?
--------------------------
This building formerly a restaurant . . .
this small room has been scraped of its paint
and denuded of most former furniture: but
also it has grown in size—can a buil... | [
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5fc98f099fcf34e2 | from Omeros | Derek Walcott | BOOK SIXChapter XLIVI
In hill-towns, from San Fernando to Mayagüez,
the same sunrise stirred the feathered lances of cane
down the archipelago’s highways. The first breeze
rattled the spears and their noise was like distant rain
marching down from the hills, like a shell at your ears.
In the cool asphalt Sundays ... | [
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b2246420ef1168ac | A Poem for Ciaran | Fanny Howe | The stroll from my cell
along the path above the donkeys
past a door open, a door shut
and a strong smell of wood
and cigarettes ends where
music helps white marguerites
cut through the masonry.
*
Dark for words with a clicking wren
a yellow tit and over the clover a
shovel and a rustle of grain.
He’s traini... | [
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caeb7a85db6c391d | On Reflection | Randall Horton | because a box is a box: humans are cultivated
into said box without choice or clarification, specimens
only existing—as in: (you—i—us). flesh & frame—
restricted bone matter comprising a box reluctant
not to be a box. but nurtured inside the box, let’s say
form which is shaped by & indigenous, to, the box &
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e07795a54882f540 | Waiting for the Twelfth | Kaveh Akbar | In Shia Islam, the Twelfth Imam is said to have disappeared in the ninth century. It’s believed his return at the end of the world will deliver order from the chaos.
no one ever brings up the wages
of virtue the cost of avoiding
that which you were built
to do some men actually love
their enemies ... | [
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c18d240ed8b5e3f3 | A pot poured out | Samuel Menashe | A pot poured out
Fulfills its spout | [
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f53391e135d527fb | Semele Recycled | Carolyn Kizer | After you left me forever,
I was broken into pieces,
and all the pieces flung into the river.
Then the legs crawled ashore
and aimlessly wandered the dusty cow-track.
They became, for a while, a simple roadside shrine:
A tiny table set up between the thighs
held a dusty candle, weed-and-fieldflower chains
place... | [
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a13dfd5160c8b3fc | dear love, | Barbara Jane Reyes | you dream in the language of dodging bullets and artillery fire.
new, sexy diagnoses have been added to the lexicon on your behalf
(“charlie don’t surf,” has also been added to the lexicon on your behalf).
in this home that is not our home, we have mutually exiled each
other. i walk down your street in the rain, an... | [
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fac0e259712d19fa | The Best Game the Fairies Play | Rose Fyleman | The best game the fairies play,
The best game of all,
Is sliding down steeples—
(You know they’re very tall).
You fly to the weathercock,
And when you hear it crow,
You fold your wings and clutch your things
And then let go!
They have a million other games—
Cloud-catching’s one,
And mud-mi... | [
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e24a56de68021de6 | Lucks, My Fair Falcon | Sir Thomas Wyatt | Lucks, my fair falcon, and your fellows all, How well pleasant it were your liberty!Ye not forsake me that fair might ye befall. But they that sometime liked my company: Like lice away from dead bodies they crawl. Lo what a proof in light adversity! But ye my birds, I swear by all your bells, Ye be my friends, and so... | [
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509899e7f72378ac | Barbershop Quartet, East Village Grille | Sebastian Matthews | Inside the standard lunch hour din they rise, four seamless voices fused into one, floating somewhere between a low hum and a vibration, like the sound of a train rumbling beneath noisy traffic. The men are hunched around a booth table, a fire circle of coffee cups and loose fists, leaning in around the thing the... | [
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e62555e54845e0af | On the Steps of the Jefferson Memorial | Linda Pastan | We invent our gods
the way the Greeks did,
in our own image—but magnified.
Athena, the very mother of wisdom,
squabbled with Poseidon
like any human sibling
until their furious tempers
made the sea writhe.
Zeus wore a crown
of lightning bolts one minute,
a cloak of feathers the next,
as driven by earthly lus... | [
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520d5507eda5277f | Structure of Rime XXVIII: In Memoriam Wallace Stevens | Robert Duncan | “That God is colouring Newton doth shew”—William Blake
Erecting beyond the boundaries of all government his grand Station and Customs, I find what I have made there a Gate, a staking out of his art in Inconsequence. I have in mind a poetry that will frame the willingness of the heart and deliver it over to ... | [
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cc4f228ed297cc02 | To Whistler, American | Ezra Pound | On the loan exhibit of his paintings at the Tate Gallery.
You also, our first great, Had tried all ways; Tested and pried and worked in many fashions, And this much gives me heart to play the game. Here is a part that's slight, and part gone wrong, And much of little moment, and some few Perfect as Dürer! "In the Stud... | [
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2aa504c7fa2048fc | At the Parrot House, Taronga Park | Vivian Smith | What images could yet suggest their range
of tender colours, thick as old brocade,
or shot silk or flowers on a dress
where black and rose and lime seem to caress
the red that starts to shimmer as they fade?
Like something half-remembered from a dream
they come from places we have never seen.
They chatter and th... | [
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b88703e134736370 | The Fatal Sisters: An Ode | Thomas Gray | (FROM THE NORSE TONGUE)
Now the storm begins to lower,
(Haste, the loom of Hell prepare.)
Iron-sleet of arrowy shower
Hurtles in the darken'd air.
Glitt'ring lances are the loom,
Where the dusky warp we strain,
Weaving many a soldier's doom,
Orkney's woe, and Randver's bane.
See the grisly texture grow,
('Tis of human... | [
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ab978826ce601a66 | To Lysander | Aphra Behn | (On some Verses he writ, and asking more for his Heart than ‘twas worth.)
I Take back that Heart, you with such Caution give, Take the fond valu’d Trifle back; I hate Love-Merchants that a Trade wou’d drive And meanly cunning Bargains make. ... | [
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915f6490f896fc58 | Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esq. | William Cowper | Thy country, Wilberforce, with just disdain,
Hears thee, by cruel men and impious, call'd
Fanatic, for thy zeal to loose th' enthrall'd
From exile, public sale, and slav'ry's chain.
Friend of the poor, the wrong'd, the fetter-gall'd,
Fear not lest labour such as thine be vain!
Thou hast achiev'd a part; hast gain'd the... | [
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22de1885062400f3 | Wavelength | David St. John | They were sitting on the thin mattress
He’d once rolled & carried up the four floors
To his room only to find it covered nearly all
Of the bare wood
Leaving just a small path alongside the wall
& between them was the sack
Of oranges & pears she’d brought its neck
Turned back to expose the colors of the fruit
& ... | [
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254da8358f0859c7 | Nina's Blues | Cornelius Eady | Your body, hard vowels
In a soft dress, is still.
What you can't know
is that after you died
All the black poets
In New York City
Took a deep breath,
And breathed you out;
Dark corners of small clubs,
The silence you left twitching
On the floors of the gigs
You turned your back on,
The balled-up fists of no... | [
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b89f2ab71bb0bd1e | The Suicide's Wife | Amy Gerstler | lives on an island
of last-ditch attempts
and ancient consolations
after the shipwreck
she swam ashore near naked
hands scraped raw on coral
bra and panties soaked through
sand in her teeth
lapped by aftermath
lying exhausted
slowly approaching
the condition of music
he loved her stubborn luster
sure they ... | [
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238c480b2e44d15f | viewfinder | Kirby Knowlton | i thought you had a summer home in barcelona because i had seen pictures of you in front of la sagrada família and knew your father had money. so maybe that’s why when i first met you i didn’t know what to say, someone too worldly to have anything to learn from me. then there was your halloween party w... | [
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c9ef4b261c8be6d9 | Running Away | Rosemary Tonks | In the green rags of the Bible I tore up
The straight silk of childhood on my head
I left the house, I fled
My mother’s brow where I had no ambition
But to stroke the writing
I raked... | [
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4a0a1751137f6619 | from “The Desk” | Marina Tsvetaeva | Fair enough: you people have eaten me,
I—wrote you down.
They’ll lay you out on a dinner table,
me—on this desk.
I’ve been happy with little.
There are dishes I’ve never tried.
But you, you people eat slowly, and often;
You eat and eat.
Everything was decided for us
back in the ocean:
Our places of action,
o... | [
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3c10c263eaf6b239 | "Once there came a man" | Stephen Crane | Once there came a man Who said: “Range me all men of the world in rows.” And instantly There was a terrific clamor among the people Against being ranged in rows. There was a loud quarrel, world-wide. It endured for ages; And blood was shed By those who would not stand in rows, And by those who pined to stand in rows.... | [
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618efdb83cbf7a6f | Falling: The Code | Li-Young Lee | 1.
Through the night
the apples
outside my window
one by one let go
their branches and
drop to the lawn.
I can’t see, but hear
the stem-snap, the plummet
through leaves, then
the final thump against the ground.
Sometimes two
at once, or one
right after another.
During long moments of silence
I wait
and ... | [
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0689c5ae5bb5711b | For Love | Robert Creeley | for Bobbie
Yesterday I wanted to
speak of it, that sense above
the others to me
important because all
that I know derives
from what it teaches me.
Today, what is it that
is finally so helpless,
different, despairs of its own
statement, wants to
turn away, endlessly
to turn away.
If the moon did not ...
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d810d2d3a7d93e21 | Hunting the Cotaco Creek | Charles Ghigna | His hand in hold so trigger-tight its blood
believes in ghosts. It clings with finger set
on steel and waits inside a dream of ducks.
The twilight burns into a rising arc
of eastern sky as sun reveals herself
too proud and instantly receives full-face
a splash of mallard flock. A shotgun blasts
the yellow into s... | [
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75dcd18ce0470972 | One Girl | Sappho | I Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, Atop on the topmost twig, — which the pluckers forgot, somehow, — Forget it not, nay; but got it not, for none could get it till now. II Like the wild hyacinth flower which on the hills is found, Which the passing feet of the sh... | [
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60bdc1ec5cf5944a | The Tummy Beast | Roald Dahl | One afternoon I said to mummy,
“Who is this person in my tummy?
“Who must be small and very thin
“Or how could he have gotten in?”
My mother said from where she sat,
“It isn’t nice to talk like that.”
“It’s true!” I cried. “I swear it, mummy!
“There is a person in my tummy!
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on pieces of cardboard.
One is face down under a blanket
with her feet and ankle bracelet showing.
Her spear leans against the wall by her head
where she can reach it.
The woman who sits on a chair won’t speak
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proxy executioner's
proxy ax
pinged by a proxy server,
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dogwood flakes
what is green
the petals
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the morning
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‘Captain’ or ‘Commodore’ that smelt gunpowder
In old engagements no one quite believes
Or understands. Talbingo had its blood
As they did, ran with waters huge and clear
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ee27c56df1383833 | Rosalind’s Madrigal | Thomas Lodge | Love in my bosom like a bee
Doth suck his sweet;
Now with his wings he plays with me,
Now with his feet.
Within mine eyes he makes his nest,
His bed amidst my tender breast;
My kisses are his daily feast,
And yet he robs me of my rest.
Ah, wanton, will ye?
And if I sleep, then percheth he
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89acae4fa9b6cf71 | Elegy V: His Picture | John Donne | Here take my picture; though I bid farewell Thine, in my heart, where my soul dwells, shall dwell. 'Tis like me now, but I dead, 'twill be more When we are shadows both, than 'twas before. When weather-beaten I come back, my hand Perhaps with rude oars torn, or sun beams tann'd, My face and breast of haircloth, and my ... | [
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a04246bb44b52dd8 | Frequency Modulation | Raymond McDaniel | you are listening to
the transmission via seed pearl, aural irritant
clockwork and sparkgap ultra high and superlow
precious black opal crystal and glass shudders and sings
broad cast scattered the seeds among the apocrypha
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75714dcad2c3c00e | Nothing | Ken Mikolowski | can replace
poetry
in my life
and one day
surely
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ada22df88bdd5e29 | Nobaude | Julian Talamantez Brolaski | I left you last evening without the usual privileges. A lot of what my body was was toxin, that held me aloft in idle price, far from the witless wood and Arcadia. There’s no more moon for birds to buss at over streetlamps. Urchins make their way in the mist, trolling for dinner rolls. How frugal my recent times were s... | [
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1a9e6d508d510dce | On A Diet | William Matthews | Eat all you want but don’t swallow it.
—Archie Moore
The ruth of soups and balm of sauces
I renounce equally. What Rorschach saw
in ink I find in the buttery frizzle
in the sauté pan, and I leave it behind,
and the sweet peat-smoke tang of bananas,
and cream in clots, and chocolate. I give
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64234de1fcd2d627 | Future Memories | Mario Meléndez | My sister woke me very early
that morning and told me
“Get up, you have to come see this
the ocean’s filled with stars”
Delighted by the revelation
I dressed quickly and thoughtIf the ocean’s filled with stars
I must take the first flight
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00867b1c56717448 | The Redshifting Web | Arthur Sze | 1 The dragons on the back of a circular bronze mirror
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e45365739ad4e28e | Sunday Chimes in the City | Louise Imogen Guiney | Across the bridge, where in the morning blow The wrinkled tide turns homeward, and is fain Homeward to drag the black sea-goer’s chain, And the long yards by Dowgate dipping low; Across dispeopled ways, patient and slow, Saint Magnus and Saint Dunstan call in vain: From Wren’s forgotten belfries, in the rain, Down the ... | [
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f5a6660802855626 | The Midnite Show | Jonathan Williams | Red-Wigglers, Night-Crawlers
& Other Worms
look out
into the crapulous moonlight:
figures of women cascading through the Sunday night;
no beer in sight.
I remember the Night-bloomingCereus by Dr. Thornton, Engraver, Blake’s
patron, it
hangs in the hall outside the bedroom
swaying hungrily like these
giant whi... | [
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8def99f76b528cb7 | Swifts | Gerald Stern | Bing Crosby died in Spain while playing golf with Franco but who could care less, and at this writing only a few of my dear ones are gone—ah I could make a sad list—the swifts, as if to prove a point, fly into the light and make a mockery out of our darkness. They scream for food but in the world of shadows they only m... | [
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4eca33f6f3f11b4a | Love in a Life | Robert Browning | I Room after room,
I hunt the house through
We inhabit together.
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her—
Next time, herself!—not the trouble behind her
Left in the curtain, the couch's perfume!
As she brushed it, the cornice-wreath blossomed anew:
Yon looking-glass gleamed at the wave of her feather.
II Y... | [
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c82656d6f505e5e1 | To an Isle in the Water | William Butler Yeats | Shy one, shy one, Shy one of my heart, She moves in the firelight Pensively apart. She carries in the dishes, And lays them in a row. To an isle in the water With her would I go. She carries in the candles, And lights the curtained room, Shy in the doorway And shy in the gloom; And shy as a rabbit, Helpful and shy. To ... | [
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437ac4ecc2229427 | Deerfield:1703 | Charles Reznikoff | Before the break of day the minister was awakened
by the sound of hatchets
breaking open the door and windows.
He ran towards the door:
about twenty Indians with painted faces
were coming into the house
howling.
Three Indians took hold of him,
and bound him as he stood in his night-shirt,
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46c34bc16b91c2ae | Luxembourg 1939 | Léopold Sédar Senghor | This Luxembourg morning, this Luxembourg autumn,
As I walk back and forth upon my youth,
No strollers, no fountains, no boats in the water,
No children, no flowers.
Ah! September flowers and the sunburnt shouts of children
Defying the coming winter.
Now only two old fellows trying to play tennis.
This autumn mor... | [
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a78a364303d3c61e | The Seagull | Norman Dubie | Chekhov, at Yalta
A winter evening at the cottage by the bay,
And I sat in the black and gold of the dead garden
Wrapped in blankets, eating my sister’s suet pudding.
The fountain was wrapped in dirty straw and
Just below my property in the old Tartar cemetery
There was a small funeral in progress: the widow
Is ... | [
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45442480b41e325d | Private and Profane | Marie Ponsot | From loss of the old and lack of the new
From failure to make the right thing do
Save us, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
From words not the word, from a feckless voice
From poetic distress and from careless choice
Exclude our intellects, James Joyce.
From genteel angels and apostles unappalled
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80d8405b27947b63 | Chronic | D. A. Powell | were lifted over the valley, its steepling dustdevils
the redwinged blackbirds convened
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the profession of absence, of being absented, a lifting skyward
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00a2f8dc724ff7e4 | Over the Heath | Rory Waterman | The truck grinds by and pumps out grit; the road glints and goes still. The barn owl that had not finished herereturns. But withits fill of scavenges, face ruffled in mulch, the vole is lost and safe so the silent specter flits away, its moon face tothe moonand rears unknown against a copse, claws tipped for the strafe... | [
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c6a9d64461e878a9 | Harold’s Chicken Shack #86 | Nate Marshall | we’re trying to eliminate the shack.
— Kristen Pierce, Harold’s CEO & daughter of founder Harold Pierce
when i went to summer camp the white kids had a tendency
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University into NU. international relations into IR. everybody
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6eb3a8b48922fb71 | Low Impact Fat Burning Workout | Adam Fitzgerald | How does one grow the cojones to celebrate a Fudgsicle?
I’ll tell you, and won’t begin by mentioning trellises forsooth.
The items on the register are mechanisms inscrutable, yes.
But they sway in the doubled-up air with a sense of lucidity,
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ecf9b4bf38e9b024 | Hebrish | Gerald Stern | At the confluence of tea roses and Russian sage
we made a right at the curved iron fence,
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but I couldn’t understand a thing because it was all blurry —
the way it gets — and though I knew him well
I couldn’t say for sure now whether it was Larry o... | [
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9e8e8a0ee74bd279 | The Seafarer | Ezra Pound | May I for my own self song's truth reckon,
Journey's jargon, how I in harsh days
Hardship endured oft.
Bitter breast-cares have I abided,
Known on my keel many a care's hold,
And dire sea-surge, and there I oft spent
Narrow nightwatch nigh the ship's head
While she tossed close to cliffs. Coldly afflicted,
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2bc7846bb966fd45 | The Other Place | William Logan | The leaves had fallen in that sullen place,
but none around him knew just where they were.
The sky revealed no sun. A ragged blur
remained where each man's face had been a face.
Two angels soon crept forth with trays of bread,
circling among the lost like prison guards.
Love is not love, unless its will affords
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e28798fcde4ce1d3 | Ladder | Atsuro Riley | [ Johnny Pep, P.O.W. ]
When they flang me down that hole I clawed for home—
When they sealed the seam with clay : sucked roots and ore—
When my gut would grind would groan of lack I ’voked some meat—
When I was blindered underground I seen our creek—
When stench would stain the mind the mind would branch—
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bc69c3c05b0b1612 | Feel Me | May Swenson | “Feel me to do right,” our father said on his deathbed.
We did not quite know—in fact, not at all—what he meant.
His last whisper was spent as through a slot in a wall.
He left us a key, but how did it fit? “Feel me
to do right.” Did it mean that, though he died, he would be felt
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6dfc479e416696e6 | Box of Cigars | Gerald Stern | I tried one or two but they were stale
and broke like sticks or crumbled when I rolled them
and lighting a match was useless nor could I
put them back in the refrigerator—
it was too late for that—even licking them
filled my mouth with ground-up outer leaf,
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7a1871944b0047f2 | Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Hast thou a charm to stay the morning-star
In his steep course? So long he seems to pause
On thy bald awful head, O sovran BLANC,
The Arve and Arveiron at thy base
Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form!
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c64acefee96e919e | The Little Mariner | Odysseus Elytis | Spotlight a
SCENE ONE: Open-air court in the ancient city of Athens. The accused arrive
and proceed among curses and cries of Death! Death!
SCENE TWO: A jail in the same city, beneath the Acropolis, walls half-eaten by
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d26eff4adf0f92bf | Lake Ontario Park | Sadiqa de Meijer | P.S. You will Do well to try to Innoculate the Indians by means of Blanketts, as well as to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race. — General Jeffery Amherst in a letter dated July 16, 1763
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ee72a6c1e3869c0d | Cicada | Fred Marchant | That whine is the sound
of waste, rot, the frantic,
grinding inability to attend
to anything but sere thwarting
of yourself, a dry corrosion
which some say they know,
but you and I—
(my jaw clenched as youturn a page,you with a heart like drywall,I who wouldlace my arms with razors,then press themslowly to your... | [
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c02a981b371e48ad | Love Again | Philip Larkin | Love again: wanking at ten past three
(Surely he’s taken her home by now?),
The bedroom hot as a bakery,
The drink gone dead, without showing how
To meet tomorrow, and afterwards,
And the usual pain, like dysentery.
Someone else feeling her breasts and cunt,
Someone else drowned in that lash-wide stare,
And me ... | [
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2aa87521460f2f77 | Gooseberry Fool | Amy Clampitt | The gooseberry’s no doubt an oddity,an outlaw or pariah even—thornyand tart as anykindergarten martinet, it can harborlike a fernseed, on its leaves’ under-side, bad news for pine trees,whereas the spruceresists the blister rustit’s host to. That veiny Chineselantern, its stolid jellyof a fruit, not only has no aroma b... | [
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d8e72651266fdd6c | In the Changing Light | Carter Revard | Brimming the trees with song
they flood July, spill over into
August pulsing lovecries,
cicadas here—one that
our cat brought me lay, legs folded
neatly, on clear wings as on a shroud, green
and white, fizzing now and then,
but when I threw it spread
wings and zagged in a wide curve into
the sweetgum tree wher... | [
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f9f37342e6cff4c8 | Fame Food & Liquor | Nate Marshall | we cut down 115th street for a quicker stroll
past the pastor's house, vacant lot, liquor store.
buses pointing out the hood & back. the route
every morning goes by the liquor store.
the loose Philly blunts and hard & dry. the sour mouth
washed away by a dull gulp of liquor. store
a honey bun in your fat back poc... | [
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751d519ac1b4dc62 | Transitory, Momentary | Juliana Spahr | The Brent geese fly in long low wavering lines on their migrations.
They start in western Europe, fatten in Iceland, then fly over the
Greenland ice cap to Canada. They sometimes breed on the Arctic
coasts of central and western Siberia and winter in western Europe,
some in England, the rest in Germany and France. ... | [
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ef06b3eee63dc327 | Listening To A White Man Play The Blues | Silvia Curbelo | Pushing the seed into the ground
isn't enough. Whatever blooms
in this place is dumb and blind.
Foreclosure is a one-eyed man.
Nothing falls from a sky like this
except a little rain, never enough rain.
All night my wife looks down
the neck of my guitar
passing the bottle back and forth
like a story she's been... | [
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9a3e75e18cf4a553 | Il Penseroso | John Milton | Hence vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred, How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys; Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, ... | [
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ceb4bf26cd4916ab | Northern Farmer: New Style | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awaäy?
Proputty, proputty, proputty—that's what I 'ears 'em saäy.
Proputty, proputty, proputty—Sam, thou's an ass for thy paaïns:
Theer's moor sense i' one o' 'is legs, nor in all thy braaïns.
Woä—theer's a craw to pluck wi' tha, Sam; yon 's parson's 'ouse—
Dosn't tho... | [
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43ce9aa72640dfba | Across a Table | Steven Cordova | “I’m glad you’re positive.”
“I’m glad you’re positive,
too, though, of course, I wish
you weren’t.” I wish you weren’t
either is the response I expect,
and you say nothing.
And who can blame you?
Not me. I’m not the one
who’ll call you after dinner and a movie.
You’re not the one who’ll call me.
We both know ... | [
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75aeae14bb38355f | Prints | Joseph Bruchac | Seeing photos
of ancestors
a century past
is like looking
at your own
fingerprints—
circles
and lines
you can't
recognize
until someone else
with a stranger's eye
looks close and says
that's you. | [
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2a6c0be4afcd453d | Dolores Park | Randall Mann | The palms
are psalms.
The nail salons,
manicured lawns.
This is some phase.
The park has been razed.
I miss the hip,
hours at a clip,
their dopey glazed
Dolores haze
(sorry).
I worry
about basic stuff:
my graying scruff,
Ambien addiction.
Eviction ...
— But there’s another story:
this site was once a c... | [
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9d0e1d59da9a85e3 | Alla Breve Loving | C. D. Wright | Three people drinking out of the bottle
in the living room.
A cold rain. Quiet as a mirror.
One of the men
stuffs his handkerchief in his coat,
climbs the stairs with the girl.
The other man is left sitting
at the desk with the wine and the headache,
turning an old Ellington side
over in his mind. And over.
H... | [
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1d48a4f57bf44050 | [into the strenuous briefness] | E. E. Cummings | into the strenuous briefness
Life:
handorgans and April
darkness,friends
i charge laughing.
Into the hair-thin tints
of yellow dawn,
into the women-coloured twilight
i smilingly
glide. I
into the big vermilion departure
swim,sayingly;
(Do you think?)the
i do,world
is probably made
of roses & hello:
(of... | [
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] | [
"S6-4"
] | [
"Living",
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] | [
"Living/Death & Dying"
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f5f56bceb2e4ce73 | On PrEP or on Prayer [“spare us your burial rites”] | sam sax | spare us your burial rites
spare us the first rib
the flood, the resurrection
spare us your dairy & meats
your belief in a life after this one
heaven’s a city
we’ve been priced out of
our mothers fled
for more affordable children
for the price of liver
heaven wants nothing
to do with pleasure
on earth
on t... | [
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"Living/Death & Dying",
"Living/Health & Illness",
"Relationships/LGBTQ+"
] |
48464fc91659e1a2 | Sounding Chinese at Inspiration Point | Tom Clark | Nice spring day off big white cloud
At Inspiration Point escaping time wars
Poet takes book & wine bottle up into Mist Mountains
Since only available agenda is rhyming with silence
Seeking window of opportunity on a wall
I disguise what I have to say by sounding Chinese
Such as stars are now darker and farther aw... | [
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603d16179070960c | February Snow | Francisco Aragón | The tint of the sky between sunset and night.
And wandering with you and your nephew
in that maze, half-lost—Madridof the Austrias—looking for Plaza of the Green
Cross where, days before you arrived,
an Opel with false plates was parked, its wheels
straddling the curb, and so the van
heading for the barracks that... | [
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] |
47f6c63efab9776c | Song (Wintah, summah, snow er shine) | Paul Laurence Dunbar | Wintah, summah, snow er shine,
Hit's all de same to me,
Ef only I kin call you mine,
An' keep you by my knee.
Ha'dship, frolic, grief er caih,
Content by night an' day,
Ef only I kin see you whaih
You wait beside de way.
Livin', dyin', smiles er teahs,
My soul will still be free,
Ef only thoo de comin' yeahs
... | [
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e64499513db12ca5 | Despotisms | Louise Imogen Guiney | I: THE MOTOR: 1905
From hedgerows where aromas fain would be
New volleyed odours execrably arise;
The flocks, with hell-smoke in their patient eyes,
Into the ditch from bawling ruin flee:
Spindrift of one abominated sea
Along all roads in wrecking fury flies
Till on young strangled leaf, on bloom... | [
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be2f407a93622b21 | Moving Things | W. S. Di Piero | My aunts mentioned her just once,calling her my aunt, their sister,though she wasn’t. They mentionedthe vinyl recliner in the kitchen,the “I Like Ike” poster, the Sacred Heart,cabbage smells, sulfur, and shame.Before jolted by the gift that calledthrough but never really for her,she became unpleasantly calm.Moments lat... | [
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2b659bf10d5afb97 | “I used to love the run-up to a storm” | Melanie Braverman | I used to love the run-up to a storm, watching from the porch as the grown-ups hurried to bring things in, my mother rummaging through drawers for a flashlight, cursing: nothing was where it was supposed to be in our house. It can’t be so, but the only people I ever remember huddled in the basement were my mother and m... | [
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] | [
"S8-3"
] | [
"Relationships"
] | [
"Relationships/Family & Ancestors"
] |
aaff4dc09fe94817 | The Other | Edward Thomas | The forest ended. Glad I wasTo feel the light, and hear the humOf bees, and smell the drying grassAnd the sweet mint, because I had comeTo an end of forest, and becauseHere was both road and inn, the sumOf what’s not forest. But ’twas hereThey asked me if I did not passYesterday this way? “Not you? Queer.”“Who then? an... | [
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"Activities"
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"Nature/Plants & Fungi",
"Activities/Travels & Journeys"
] |
be4dd1f52a60d4e6 | John Sutter | Yvor Winters | I was the patriarch of the shining land,
Of the blond summer and metallic grain;
Men vanished at the motion of my hand,
And when I beckoned they would come again.
The earth grew dense with grain at my desire;
The shade was deepened at the springs and streams;
Moving in dust that clung like pillared fire,
The gat... | [
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"S3",
"S4",
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] | [
"S2-7",
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