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Morning in Serra Mattu by Arif Gamal
epub |eng | | Author:Arif Gamal

you must see him he is the most important man I don’t need to see him he doesn’t know me does he come to ask my opinion? I am Nubian ...
( Category: African February 1,2023 )
Colors Passing Through Us by Marge Piercy
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Marge Piercy [Piercy, Marge]

I shake and turn. Then I filter and discard the herbs, throw out what was so fresh. I have extracted its soul. I have turned it to garbage. How often ...
( Category: Family January 31,2023 )
Mission Work by Aaron Baker
epub |eng | | Author:Aaron Baker

BRIDE PRICE My mother taught me which leaf to chew for tooth-pain, the feather for fortune, but finally laid me down amidst a vast ceremony of smoke where, as from ...
( Category: Japanese & Haiku January 31,2023 )
Skylight by Carol Muske-Dukes
epub |eng | 2014-04-30 | Author:Carol Muske-Dukes [Muske-Dukes, Carol]

Golden Retriever She was the one who put her tongue to the whetstone on its rickety wheel in the Tool Room. The wheel spun, the tongue arched in its bud ...
( Category: Women January 31,2023 )
Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
epub |eng | | Author:Les Murray

Bird Signatures Tiny spinnakers of blue wrens wag among waves of uncut lawn grass O Dapper lyre bird: wonder what he’s typing there below the study O A shrike thrush ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania January 31,2023 )
The First Five by Henry Rollins
epub |eng | 2010-07-28 | Author:Henry Rollins

American Hardcore Checkout at the market. There she is baby in one arm, five year-old at her feet. Purchase: Six of Bud, fifth of Old Granddad, pack of Kools, potato ...
( Category: United States January 31,2023 )
The Dangerous Country of Love and Marriage by Amy Leigh Wicks
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Amy Leigh Wicks

MAUNDY God, I believe in the big fish that swallowed the man and spit him back out. I believe you were a man with a hammer in your hands every ...
( Category: British January 31,2023 )
My Song (and Other Poems) by Orok Otu Duke
epub |eng | 2013-12-17 | Author:Orok Otu Duke

When the tide gets high, It will lift all the boats, The pain I carry is hard to hide, There are drag-marks on the ground. When you bring along a ...
( Category: Poetry January 31,2023 )
What Are Big Girls Made Of? by Marge Piercy
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Marge Piercy [Piercy, Marge]

Some wood bends and some breaks. Some we shape into baskets, wicker, some into toothpicks, some into beams that carry the weight of our lives. But this petrified triangle beside ...
( Category: Places January 31,2023 )
Listening by Margaret Avison
epub |eng | 2009-03-31 | Author:Margaret Avison [Avison, Margaret]

Song from Swans A swanherd stoops out of his door too early, too shivery. Preoccupied, he brushes through the rivery approaches. Grasses are briefly festooned: dewdrops loll on the tips ...
( Category: Poetry January 31,2023 )
Probably Inevitable by Matthew Tierney
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Matthew Tierney

Regular Folks Going Bananas What’s it been? Four days, four solid-colour ties in shades of grey, your expression coached to an innocence consistent with your attorney’s alternate theory of the ...
( Category: Poetry January 31,2023 )
Without by Donald Hall
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Hall

The Gallery Back home from the grave, behind my desk I made a gallery of Janes: at twenty-four, with long straight hair sitting beside me in my Pittsburgh Pirate suit; ...
( Category: Japanese & Haiku January 31,2023 )
Earthly Measures by Edward Hirsch
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Edward Hirsch [Hirsch, Edward]

Keats was interred here, so was Shelley— But if it should “make one in love with death” To lie there, that’s only if death Itself were conscious, a consequent clarity. ...
( Category: Poetry January 31,2023 )
Wolf Doctors by Russ Woods
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Russ Woods

MANY HOOVES We want you to know that we love you. We treasure the golden locks of your hair, and want to kiss your sweet lips. The way you look ...
( Category: Death, Grief & Loss January 31,2023 )
My Father Was a Toltec by Ana Castillo
epub |eng | 2012-06-27 | Author:Ana Castillo [Castillo, Ana]

Cherry Stained Lips and Thick Thighs That woman with perfect mouth stained as if with cherry juice whom you spied slipping off red kimono, thick thighs stepping into afternoon bath ...
( Category: Spanish January 31,2023 )

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