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The Voice Celestial by Ernest Holmes
epub |eng | | Author:Ernest Holmes

Praise rises from my soul Like incense wafted from an altar-bowl, As though the winds of morning gently blow Across the garden of my heart, and so Do gather perfume ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious December 4,2022 )
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse by Kathleen Jamie
epub |eng | | Author:Kathleen Jamie

( Category: British & Irish December 4,2022 )
Count by Valerie Martínez
epub |eng | 2021-08-30 | Author:Valerie Martínez [Martínez, Valerie]

the building, wander to the back where dioramas display creatures so fantastical—fingerprint cyphoma, rainbow wrasse—I feel an opening, wide, imagine Spider Woman and the clans actually listen to Sotuknang, abandon ...
( Category: Hispanic American December 4,2022 )
Fauverie by Pascale Petit
epub |eng | | Author:Pascale Petit

Squirrel Monkey Because today every breath is a struggle I show you a photo of Baker the first monkey to survive in space. She’s in a capsule no bigger than ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )
La colina que ascendemos by Amanda Gorman
epub |spa | | Author:Amanda Gorman

We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy. And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while ...
( Category: Spanish December 4,2022 )
Mankiller Poems by Wilma Mankiller
epub |eng | 2022-04-28 | Author:Wilma Mankiller

And Mankiller successfully changed the nature of the national story because, as she once said, “I can eliminate any stereotypes about what a chief looks like.” Of course, the Redbirds ...
( Category: Native American December 4,2022 )
Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid by Simon Armitage
epub |eng | 2013-08-28 | Author:Simon Armitage [Armitage, Simon]

sonogram scan, black and white, twenny-eight weeks old. Sympathy Remember the case of the birthday bird? Not a blue macaw on a golden perch or a budgerigar or zebra finch. ...
( Category: Places December 4,2022 )
A Fool's Errand by Dermot Healy
epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Dermot Healy [Dermot Healy]

with such tenderness and care as she combed back in the curls you’d combed away. I have been to that place I set my mind upon, and would climb it ...
( Category: British December 4,2022 )
The Lazarus Project by K. C. Hanson
epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:K. C. Hanson

The Cameraman This is me, this picture, more so than the life I led—the only picture of a man of pictures, even though from the other side of the camera ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )
LARB Digital Edition by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
epub |eng | 2014-06-30 | Author:Gabrielle Calvocoressi [Books, Los Angeles Review of]

But glancing at you and seeing the smile that this lemon condition produced (so at odds with my greed and guile), my blood blacked out inside my shirt, and through ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )
Life Happens, and Death Too by Latika Mangrulkar
epub |eng | | Author:Latika Mangrulkar

9. Loving is Leaving Loving is leaving An old adage trite It comes when It should not It goes where It cannot Passion primeval Fresh Like the dew A spring ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )
Reflections on Half a Century by Jeff Rimland
epub | | | Author:Jeff Rimland

Feeling Grateful–1990 Legless he sat, Defecation was hard for him. Struggling to move, to bring it out, to live. While combing my hair, he said, “Sir, come here please.” Not ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )
Bathing Strictly Prohibited by Matthew Rhodes
epub |eng | 2017-04-20 | Author:Matthew Rhodes

Into your trust, the world settles, like the final gurgle of an emptying bath. Passing sounds separate and subside, and a nearby Rastafarian takes your arm. Autumn evening That curiosity ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )
Breath of the Onion by Franco Pagnucci
epub |eng | 2015-05-19 | Author:Franco Pagnucci

I followed you in the downpour and the exhaust fumes that now hung over the street like a heavy lid on a pot, and I wondered how the Florentine air ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )
The Human Condition by Paul Christensen
epub |eng | 2011-12-15 | Author:Paul Christensen

EVEN THE FORSAKEN WORLD IS HOME “Moustache,” someone says in the souk. A thin, wedge-faced man stares back when I turn to smile. His face unwrinkles into a greeting. It ...
( Category: Poetry December 4,2022 )

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