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Winter Stars by Larry Levis
epub |eng | | Author:Larry Levis [Levis, Larry]

THE QUILT “He had stopped believing in the goodness of the world.” —Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady I think it is all light at the end; I think ...
( Category: United States December 12,2022 )
Short Haul Engine by Karen Solie
epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Karen Solie

Why I Dream of Helicopter Crashes At first there is only the magnificence of rising straight up, roaring through a thin indifferent element. Clothes outgrown, tiny shoes fall away as ...
( Category: Canadian December 12,2022 )
Modern and Normal by Karen Solie
epub |eng | 2010-10-21 | Author:Karen Solie

Meeting Walter Benjamin A long lake in a swan-throated bed, longer than wide by seventy miles. In his loneliness you mistake him for shade creaking from the poplars, his gait ...
( Category: Canadian December 12,2022 )
Ostinato Vamps by Wanda Coleman
epub |eng | | Author:Wanda Coleman [Coleman, Wanda]

telling fortunes on the side drew extra cash. all those gold & silver rings financed by the afterlife. the child was enchanted and held her virgin breath between Mama's visits ...
( Category: Black & African American December 12,2022 )
Kiddar's Luck by Jack Common
epub |eng | 2012-12-15 | Author:Jack Common [Jack Common]

Chapter Nine GUY FAWKES LIGHTS UP TWO WORLDS Luckily I had never allowed anything of this religious phase of mine to show on me during school hours. Neither its coming ...
( Category: Contemporary December 12,2022 )
The Private Life by Lisel Mueller
epub |eng | 1976-12-15 | Author:Lisel Mueller

Once I was blind, but now I see, he shouts at us, at the polluted sky. His face is rapt, his eyes are two locked doors. Messages May, 1970 Outside ...
( Category: American December 12,2022 )
Kyoto-Dwelling by Edith M. Shiffert
epub |eng | | Author:Edith M. Shiffert

Fifteen monks sitting almost hidden in shadows— black robes, white faces. A temple garden— green blades pulled up from the sand wither in small heaps. The ceremony finished the place ...
( Category: Japanese & Haiku December 12,2022 )
Second Language by Lisel Mueller
epub |eng | 1986-12-15 | Author:Lisel Mueller

FACETS When you look at a bee, give it your simple-eyed appraisal of intention, hundreds of eyes look back. One lights on the childhood scar under your lip, one counts ...
( Category: United States December 12,2022 )
Tonguebreaker: Poems and Performance Texts by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
epub |eng | 2019-12-15 | Author:Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

5. ritual prayers: performance texts from mangos with chili introduction: qtpoc disabled ritual prayers The following pieces are longer performance texts I wrote and performed with and for Mangos With ...
( Category: Asian American December 12,2022 )
Winter Roses after Fall by Robert M. Drake and r.h. Sin
epub |eng | 2021-10-06 | Author:Robert M. Drake and r.h. Sin

Nostalgia is a pretty lie, the past filtered in all the pretty colors you like. You admire what’s behind you, moments no longer filled with life, while neglecting the present ...
( Category: Black & African American December 11,2022 )
The Dance Most of All by Jack Gilbert
epub |eng | 2020-12-31 | Author:Jack Gilbert [Gilbert, Jack]

THE DANGER OF WISDOM We learn to live without passion. To be reasonable. We go hungry amid the giant granaries this world is. We store up plenty for when we ...
( Category: Places December 10,2022 )
This Is My Century by Margaret Walker
epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Margaret Walker

OXFORD IS A LEGEND OXFORD is a legend Where battlements were placed One flaming night And they fought the civil war all over again With a rebel yell, and rebel ...
( Category: Black & African American December 10,2022 )
Silhouette of Reflections a Collection of Poems by Neelam Saxena Chandra
epub |eng | | Author:Neelam Saxena Chandra [Neelam Saxena Chandra]

70. TRAFFIC JAM It was a moment Of extreme Agitation and unrest In my Otherwise calm mind. There was a traffic jam In my thoughts; Numerous feelings Craved to gain ...
( Category: Poetry December 10,2022 )
The Comet and Other Verses by Irving Sidney Dix
epub |eng | | Author:Irving Sidney Dix

Norma * A Legend of the Wayne Highlands Along the lake's wild northern shore An island dark with trees Lies shadow-like, and o'er and o'er At midnight thru a leafy ...
( Category: Poetry December 10,2022 )
Life Crispies...Come Taste and See Reality Poetry by Sharon Falloon
epub |eng | 2012-12-15 | Author:Sharon Falloon

Job 3:25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. Exodus 34:21-23 Behold, there is a ...
( Category: Poetry December 10,2022 )

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