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Gaze by Christopher Howell
epub |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Christopher Howell

they were probably Communists. We never knew what he meant by that. The Lights followed us for days and the fish followed The Lights. And the phosphorus kept arguing its ...
( Category: Contemporary December 5,2022 )
Bright Moon, White Clouds by J. P. Seaton
epub |eng | | Author:J. P. Seaton

Passing the Night at the Foot of Five-Pines Mountain in the House of the Widow Ao I spent the night at the foot of Five-Pines Mountain, silent, solitary place; at ...
( Category: Chinese December 5,2022 )
Tossing and Turning by John Updike
epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

THE JOLLY GREENE GIANT Or is it more shocking … to be forced to consider that he may now be the largest of living English novelists?—Greene, the ambidextrous producer of ...
( Category: Places December 5,2022 )
Syzygy, Beauty: an Essay by T Fleischmann
epub |eng | 2012-02-02 | Author:T Fleischmann

At seventeen, Oppenheim wrote the equation x = hare in her math book. Gluing fur to logic, her answer spry as it jumps away. There is imagination in truth, she ...
( Category: Love Poems December 5,2022 )
Midpoint and Other Poems by John Updike
epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

April–August 1968 Poems FIREWORKS These spasms and chrysanthemums of light are like emotions exploding under a curved night that corresponds to the dark firmament within. See, now, the libidinous flare, ...
( Category: Nature December 5,2022 )
Pelt by Sarah Jackson
epub |eng | 2012-12-15 | Author:Sarah Jackson [Sarah Jackson]

to look at me, but his eyes slip over the top of my head, and his smile carefully unfastens. He turns me as in bed. A vast white glare breathes ...
( Category: Poetry December 5,2022 )
Animal Inside You by Matthew Howard
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Howard

His garden of stars he nurtured with his own blood and toil. Seasons come and go. No more wandering the streets, begging. The harvest grows near. The foliage shines luminescent ...
( Category: Poetry December 5,2022 )
Now It's Dark by Peter Gizzi
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Peter Gizzi

SOME JOY FOR MORNING Now the connection with spring has dissolved. Now that hysteria is blooming. Says every day I want to fly my kite. Says what’s a grammar when ...
( Category: Family December 5,2022 )
Eighteen Inches by Mirtha Michelle Castro Marmol
epub |eng | 2020-09-02 | Author:Mirtha Michelle Castro Marmol

9" Some people experience physical war, but all I know is the war within. Selfishness When I consider the power of decisions, I can’t help but think of the lessons ...
( Category: Death, Grief & Loss December 5,2022 )
Love Without a Story by ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM

and in cupboards, the routine ambush – preverbal, intimate, blindly illiterate – of genes. When Landscape Becomes Woman I was eight when I looked through a keyhole and saw my ...
( Category: Asian December 5,2022 )
Cenzontle by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
epub |eng | 2018-03-08 | Author:Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

2. We make new friends then lose them. 3. We never bake another goddamn pie again. Either way it’s a terrible future. It’s a movie where no one seems interested ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 5,2022 )
Finding Mother God by Carol Lynn Pearson
epub |eng | 2020-07-30 | Author:Carol Lynn Pearson

Heavenly Mother’s Lullaby I close all the curtains, I turn out the light, I tuck the night around you. Your toys are away now, the day’s in its drawer. My ...
( Category: Nature December 5,2022 )
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations by David Ferry
epub |eng | | Author:David Ferry

Six READING ARTHUR GOLD'S POEM “CHEST CANCER” A flash of somber red Against the Maine-drenched green, Back of the Victory Garden, As we kids crouched under the sun, Weeding. It ...
( Category: American December 5,2022 )
Good Boys by Megan Fernandes
epub |eng | 2020-01-08 | Author:Megan Fernandes

SICILIA When it appears on your arm like a map, you go to choke the green leaf thinking poison ivy or poison oak and that makes you think of Uma ...
( Category: Nature December 5,2022 )
A Socially Acceptable Breakdown by Patrick Roche
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Patrick Roche [Roche, Patrick]

Calling Mom Poem in Which Flowers Are Replaced by My Brain Late April and my brain is losing petals in the wind But still my brain buds and blooms and ...
( Category: Family December 5,2022 )

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