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Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Michael Kleber-Diggs

AMERICA IS LOVING ME TO DEATH America is loving me to death, loving me to death slowly, and I Mainly try not to be disappeared here, knowing she won’t pledge ...
( Category: Family December 19,2022 )
The Elements of San Joaquin by Gary Soto
epub |eng | 2018-12-15 | Author:Gary Soto [Soto, Gary]

After the rain You wore the heat like a shirt, You drank until your mouth Hung open and no longer Bothered to shrug off the flies. Later you rested under ...
( Category: Places December 19,2022 )
The Three Cornered World by Natsume Soseki
epub |eng | 2022-05-24 | Author:Natsume Soseki

I. Wên T’ung—Chinese painter (1018-1079) Unkoku Togan—Japanese landscape painter (1547-1618) Ike Taiga—Japanese landscape painter (1723-1776) Yosa Buson—Japanese painter and poet (1716-1783) II. Sessyu Toyo—Japanese painter (1420-1506) III. This is the ...
( Category: Japanese & Haiku December 19,2022 )
77 Fragments of a Familiar Ruin by Thomas King
epub |eng | 2019-07-17 | Author:Thomas King

49 Under the new moon, the old Indian lies in wait by the side of the road. When the police arrive he has already field-dressed a Dodge Ram and a ...
( Category: Native American December 19,2022 )
Fasti by Ovid & Peter Wiseman
epub |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Ovid & Peter Wiseman

The Sun is approached. ‘She whom you seek,’ he says, ‘so you may not labour in vain, rules the third kingdom as the bride of Jupiter’s brother.’ Having long lamented ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical December 19,2022 )
First Four Books of Poems by Louise Gluck
epub |eng | 2021-09-14 | Author:Louise Gluck

Thanksgiving They have come again to graze the orchard, knowing they will be denied. The leaves have fallen; on the dry ground the wind makes piles of them, sorting all ...
( Category: Family December 19,2022 )
Sonnet's Shakespeare by Sonnet L'Abbe
epub |eng | 2019-08-20 | Author:Sonnet L'Abbe [L'Abbe, Sonnet]

LXXXVI Forty-two actions I knot into this hopeful procedure, as mindful plant, subaltern, refertilizing the space of the English language’s breath-taking verse. Bound up by the very craft with which ...
( Category: Canadian December 19,2022 )
My Darling from the Lions by Rachel Long
epub |eng | 2021-07-11 | Author:Rachel Long

My finger, livid with embarrassment, my blood salty, surprisingly salty for a girl my age. AND THEN THERE WAS THE TIME I GOT INTO A FIGHT at three minutes to ...
( Category: Family December 19,2022 )
Somebody Else Sold the World by Adrian Matejka
epub |eng | 2021-07-06 | Author:Adrian Matejka [Matejka, Adrian]

GYMNOPÉDIES NO. 3 This sunlight on snow. This decrescendo of covered stumps & brush—stop for it. Stop before the sled end-over-ends down the chin of the hill—the way it always ...
( Category: Black & African American December 19,2022 )
Twice Alive by Forrest Gander
epub |eng | 2021-05-04 | Author:Forrest Gander

Pastoral Together, you standing before me before the picture window, my arms around you, our eyes pitched beyond our reflections into — (“into” I’d written, as though there swung at ...
( Category: Nature December 19,2022 )
Against Silence by Frank Bidart
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Bidart

• house, but what remained unerasable, without solution were her and me. Small dark labyrinthine • house without end. One day I swung at her. The half-door window I smashed ...
( Category: United States December 19,2022 )
Pilgrim Bell by Kaveh Akbar
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Kaveh Akbar [Akbar, Kaveh]

A pilgrim is a person who is up to something. ANNE CARSON PILGRIM BELL I demand. To be forgiven. I demand. A sturdier soul. Every person I’ve ever met. Has ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 19,2022 )
The Collection Plate by Kendra Allen
epub |eng | 2021-05-15 | Author:Kendra Allen

Bloom. The water cycle, she sings. Manipulating moods for us to remember what will be on the weekly test. Everybody knows she’s a singer interrupted by a coastline. The water ...
( Category: Places December 19,2022 )
Collected Poems by Sonia Sanchez
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Sonia Sanchez [Sanchez, Sonia]

A Letter to Dr. Martin Luther King Dear Martin, Great God, what a morning, Martin! The sun is rolling in from faraway places. I watch it reaching out, circling these ...
( Category: Black & African American December 19,2022 )
Sadness and Happiness by Robert Pinsky
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Robert Pinsky

The Generation Before TO FRANK BIDART The wind blew. Some days, rain Falling the size of nickels Splashed up over the curb. There were hats for that, and for sun ...
( Category: American December 19,2022 )

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