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Breath Better Spent by DaMaris Hill
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:DaMaris Hill

NEVER GROW OLD: PART TWO (for Dr. Kim Richards, UBWSLI NoLa2014) You are old as you will ever be, galloping in a dance studio with an ancient girl, ancient as ...
( Category: Black & African American December 4,2022 )
Eclectic by Queen of Spades
epub |eng | 2013-09-28 | Author:Queen of Spades

Old scabs, peeped back, doused with salts. Vigorously scrubbed in, spewing renewed blood. Bringing forth renewed pain. This addiction, now a fixation--distant threat becoming too real in the present and ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )
The Human Experience by Quaker U.S. Staff
epub |eng | 2013-09-11 | Author:Quaker U.S. Staff [Staff, Quaker U.S.]

A GREETING FROM AFAR Boris Yekimov 1 Bread wasn’t delivered to the village every day. So people stocked up on it: extra for themselves, and for their privately owned cattle ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )
Ode to Didcot Power Station by Kit Wright
epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Kit Wright [Kit Wright]

The optimistic lope, the strudge, The bustling rise-and-shine – Exemplars of each honoured mode I’ve counted friends of mine. Man hands on mastery to man Of prancing or prosaic Gaits, ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )
Fox Populi by Kate Fox
epub |eng | 2013-09-20 | Author:Kate Fox [Fox, Kate]

Small men in military uniform come, chests out to perch on her. Cooing at women in skirts, begging passersby for food, their shit browning her head, they have no respect ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )
War Poet by Jon Stallworthy
epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Jon Stallworthy [Jon Stallworthy]

At midnight in her dream – or was it my dream? – when all the guests had gone, the Mouse King marched from the closet and with his brigand battalion ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )
Outlandish by Jo Clement
epub |eng | 2022-12-15 | Author:Jo Clement

on necessity’s nave, Rom found harbour under bow-top eaves tight nocked and steeped in mordant green. Lessons in light opened windows, knives released roosting wagtails from cedar, split the lips ...
( Category: Nature December 4,2022 )
Visits from the Seventh by Sarah Arvio
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Sarah Arvio [Arvio, Sarah]

so essential to life and love and art. We must feel there’s always more to be known!” “And of course that’s never not true, except in bad art, which puts ...
( Category: Contemporary December 4,2022 )
Fortunate by Kim Rashidi
epub |eng | 2022-04-11 | Author:Kim Rashidi

step through with gratitude, and find your footing without having assumed that this is forever-hood. 43 page of wands tweaking an idea is your way of breaking it out into ...
( Category: Canadian December 4,2022 )
Love Poems for Married People by John Kenney
epub |eng | 2018-12-31 | Author:John Kenney [Kenney, John]

Seafood? I meant to tell you as I was driving home from the mall earlier I heard that marvelous song by Beyoncé. I forget the name but she sings about ...
( Category: Family December 4,2022 )
Call Waiting by David C. Ward
epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:David C. Ward [David C. Ward]

The self-awareness of their own Abstraction. Jackson Pollock Crashes his Car gear shift slicks tires smoke obscured neon bruising the black night light sky reflected in oil stained panties riding ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )
The Cachoeira Tales and Other Poems by Marilyn Nelson
epub |eng | 2005-12-15 | Author:Marilyn Nelson

Through the Wormhole I was alone on a cobblestone street, rushing to the place I’d been told I’d meet the tall, dark, handsome stranger of my dreams, when I heard ...
( Category: Anthologies December 4,2022 )
Brother Fire by W.S. Di Piero
epub |eng | 2020-12-31 | Author:W.S. Di Piero [Piero, W. S. Di]

Floating up here that howl down there is me Of our time invisible angel Of castoffs replays tax frauds lost lease sales Roaring steel wings hover above to take us ...
( Category: Japanese & Haiku December 4,2022 )
once upon a twin by Raymond Luczak
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Raymond Luczak

$$$$$ sure i survived but at what price for sure it was steeper than any down payment on any house id have cared to own so no home ever of ...
( Category: LGBTQ+ Poetry December 4,2022 )
Between Clay and Star by Sasha Dugdale
epub |eng | 2013-08-02 | Author:Sasha Dugdale [Dugdale, Sasha]

The Main Square The insomniac gaze of the houses crammed into each other like birds in nests the night before journeying toward warm shores. The Little Square Needlework stitched by ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )

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