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My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree by Yi Lei
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Yi Lei [Lei, Yi]

6. Invitation When it arrived, I was interrupted by relief, Sitting in my rattan chair, feeling the wind ease in Through the holes in my life. I only said yes ...
( Category: Chinese December 19,2022 )
Dark Traffic by Joan Naviyuk Kane
epub |eng | | Author:Joan Naviyuk Kane [Kane, Joan Naviyuk]

TERROR (& EREBUS) Our hero crosses his own heart on his way down to hell. Past those little bones she bore within: those brittle bones should not have been. After ...
( Category: Native American December 19,2022 )
What Hurts Going Down by Nancy Lee
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Nancy Lee [Lee, Nancy]

iii. Did they even want daughters? Sons so adored, rut-hungry, bottle-weak, sloppy work with a scythe. Who didn’t know his charm, the lanolin musk of his wool? And what if ...
( Category: Places December 19,2022 )
The Heart of American Poetry by Edward Hirsch
epub |eng | 2022-02-02 | Author:Edward Hirsch

It was winter. It got dark early. The brief hesitation on the word dark is disquieting. You are almost unaware of how casually the language has drifted to the child’s ...
( Category: Anthologies December 19,2022 )
Tethered to Stars by Fady Joudah
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Fady Joudah

Equinox A gift economy stuffs its pockets with stones that hold their shape like water. We’re more water than blood, and more than water, a sea isn’t a river, just ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 19,2022 )
Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Benjamin Garcia

A Toast to the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah The waitress tending our party of three dips her tanned torso over the table as she grabs the menus from us ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 19,2022 )
Congratulations, Rhododendrons by Mary Germaine
epub |eng | 2021-03-04 | Author:Mary Germaine

Other centuries built cathedrals! With arches, domes, and turrets that spire into low heaven. They drew faces out of eons of stone and then gave every face eyes brimming with ...
( Category: Canadian December 19,2022 )
Every Day We Get More Illegal by Juan Felipe Herrera
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Juan Felipe Herrera

Address Book for the Firefly on the Road North #3 when we reach the family shrine made of twigs bitten cloth shrubs & dirt we bow Interview w/a Border Machine ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 19,2022 )
Invasive Species by Marwa Helal
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Marwa Helal

I sneer back at the television, wishing her fake smile would melt in the desert heat like Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” music video. This is made worse by the fact ...
( Category: Middle Eastern December 19,2022 )
Favorite Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Dover Thrift Editions
epub |eng | 2012-10-23 | Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow & Dover Thrift Editions

Foremost among them was Alden. All night he had lain without slumber, Turning and tossing about in the heat and unrest of his fever. He had beheld Miles Standish, who ...
( Category: United States December 19,2022 )
The Collected Poems of Ai by Ai
epub |eng | | Author:Ai

( Category: Japanese & Haiku December 19,2022 )
All the Names Given by Raymond Antrobus
epub |eng | 2021-10-05 | Author:Raymond Antrobus

[unstoppable singing] and this is where everyone in the Royal Opera House, Black, white, whatever, rises to their feet and shouts and hollers and claps and cries and none of ...
( Category: Family December 19,2022 )
Smoking with Crohn's by George Chopping
epub |eng | 2014-10-16 | Author:George Chopping

22. arriving in the broken leg ward on your hands, wheelbarrowed by the hospital porter 23. waiting on the ward for the broken leg and post- pothole trauma doctor to ...
( Category: Family December 19,2022 )
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing by Alice Walker
epub |eng | | Author:Alice Walker

I PRAY FOR YOU I pray for you to love the precious body this lifetime has given you as I love it. In youth every speeding motorcycle beckoned to turn ...
( Category: Black & African American December 19,2022 )
Light And Time by Michael Mirolla
epub |eng | 2010-07-03 | Author:Michael Mirolla

But is there enough cement to keep the question from being begged? Venetian Blind He, knowing nothing about Venice save that it is full of gondolas and sinking, decides to ...
( Category: Poetry December 19,2022 )

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