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Bear Bones & Feathers by Louise B. Halfe
epub |eng | 2022-02-15 | Author:Louise B. Halfe

He suffered in silence in the dark. A hand muffled his mouth while the other snaked his wiener. He had no other name, knew no other word. Soon it was ...
( Category: Canadian February 21,2023 )
The Book of Hours by Marianne Boruch
epub |eng | | Author:Marianne Boruch

Some world. No start to it but Some world. No start to it but daylight, no stop at dusk. I took a kayak closer, waterweeds, whatever they’re called in a ...
( Category: Contemporary February 21,2023 )
Love Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
epub |eng | 2012-12-05 | Author:William Shakespeare [Shakespeare, William]

SONNET CLI Love is too young to know what conscience is; Yet who knows not conscience is born of love? Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss, Lest guilty of ...
( Category: Poetry February 21,2023 )
Little Orphant Annie and Other Poems by James Whitcomb Riley
epub |eng | 2013-02-15 | Author:James Whitcomb Riley

The Hired Man’s Dog-Story Twa dogs that were na thrang at hame Forgather’d ance upon a time. —BURNS. Dogs, I contend, is jes’ about Nigh human—git ’em studied out. I ...
( Category: Poetry February 21,2023 )
Twigs and Knucklebones by Sarah Lindsay
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Lindsay

the sickness from our houses, so it drinks our lives no more. But come with me, and I will go first, I will go before you into that land no ...
( Category: American February 21,2023 )
The Best American Poetry 2009 by David Wagoner
epub |eng | | Author:David Wagoner

(for Ryk Ekedal) Disdained, the prose poem, by Walcott, his bluewater lilt curmudgeoned. Dismissed. No reason not to divide with a dot I hear America calling for a dot Sometimes ...
( Category: Anthologies February 21,2023 )
Getting Over Homer by Mark o'Donnell
epub |eng | 2011-07-13 | Author:Mark o'Donnell [O’Donnell, Mark]

“I don’t believe that Anglo-Saxonism at the end is a proper word for songs,” Middling offered after a parched pause. “It’s supposed to shock,” I explained. “Snatch and fuck are ...
( Category: Japanese & Haiku February 21,2023 )
The Boy Who Slept Under the Stars by Roseann Lloyd
epub |eng | | Author:Roseann Lloyd [Lloyd, Roseann]

I’m sick and tired of people asking, Where is his body? I swear: Mary was smiling at the flowers. Didn’t care if they were plastic or real. So many paths ...
( Category: Nature February 21,2023 )
The Nevermore Poe Collection by Edgar Allan Poe
epub |eng | | Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting— “Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore! Leave no black plume as a ...
( Category: Poetry February 21,2023 )
Intimacies, Received by Taneum Bambrick
epub |eng | | Author:Taneum Bambrick

INTIMACIES, RECEIVED Having you was like having a baby. A box of matches carrying bees across a lake. I keep the reel of your passport photo in my coat pocket, ...
( Category: Places February 21,2023 )
Helen Steiner Rice by Helen Steiner Rice
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Helen Steiner Rice [Rice, Helen Steiner]

TODAY’S JOY WAS BORN OF YESTERDAY’S SORROW Who said the darkness of the night would never turn to day? Who said the winter’s bleakness would never pass away? Who said ...
( Category: Religious & Inspirational February 21,2023 )
While We've Still Got Feet by David Budbill
epub |eng | | Author:David Budbill

Here is Fu Sheng wizened, bald, old, wrinkled and skinny, leaning on his staff, next to the young woman, whose body is smooth and round, her hair black, her robes ...
( Category: Asian American February 21,2023 )
Good Morning and Good Night by David Wagoner
epub |eng | | Author:David Wagoner

A Report on the Excavation It seemed a promising dig: the slightly sunken Unnaturally level look of a campsite Repossessed by nature, by centuries Of rain and wind. Our cross-trenching ...
( Category: American February 21,2023 )
Collected Poems by C. H. Sisson
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:C. H. Sisson [C.H. Sisson]

( Category: British February 21,2023 )
Small World by Richard Price
epub |eng | 2012-02-15 | Author:Richard Price [Richard Price]

Yes… she cried more. She laughed more as well! You give her James Tate’s best wishes. Tell her: Tate sends his best wishes.’ Hakan’s wife has been in hospital, too. ...
( Category: British & Irish February 21,2023 )

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