epub |eng | 2017-10-28 | Author:John Freeman [Freeman, John]

Ides And so begins the rain, stereo needle lowered to waiting disc, volume raised until a song is heard. Saudade means nostalgia, I’m told, but also nostalgia for what never ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bill McCloud

when I saw three MPs chasing the tallest man I had ever seen in a uniform He had no flowers in his hair so I had a pretty good idea ...

epub |eng | | Author:Lynn Emanuel [Emanuel, Lynn]

• • • Hello, Mallarmé, And adieu, Walt Whitman. Whitman, I fell in love with capitalism because of your commas in lines that cannot decide if they are crowbars for ...

epub |eng | | Author:Iliana Rocha [Rocha, Iliana]

Sonnet for Jinkx Monsoon after Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 20” You have a woman’s face with Kryolan’s own hand painted: Beat that mug, girl. Contour cheekbone, exact desires with rouge (the blending! ...

epub |eng | 2010-01-15 | Author:Richard Campanella

Death of an American City, 2005 We are about to lose New Orleans. Aerial view: too much swamp. Airport empty. President Bush stood in Jackson Square and said, “There is ...

epub |eng | 2017-08-25 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [POE, EDGAR ALLAN]

“Mademoiselle Rogêt left her mother’s house on Sunday morning, June the twenty-second, 18 — , with the ostensible purpose of going to see her aunt, or some other connexion, in ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-23 | Author:Charles Simic

In that little burg where they hoodwink One another, dupe, beguile The visitor, the road seemed moonstruck In broad daylight. The country store with a porch sold loons Made out ...

epub |eng | | Author:Denise Duhamel [Duhamel, Denise]

PORN POEM (WITH ANDREA DWORKIN) goldfish porn/applesauce porn/graphic pornographic traffic/ Bono porn/popcorn porn/forlorn porn/aurora borealis porn/ orchid porn/grilled Portobello porn. . .pornography as social control, a way of saying publicly ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Nicole Cooley

The daughters in their beds, row upon row of white, like a book’s blank pages. The daughters quarantined. I pour and pour as if water could make grief small. As ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Philip M. Butera [Butera, Philip M.]

She appeared again without conscience, Her attractive figure always elusive. In pureness, next to mercy, we tangled, Passion stirring on jagged cut glass. Theatrical sirens martyred by sinners Danced about ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ted Kooser [Kooser, Ted]

IN AN OLD APPLE ORCHARD The wind's an old man to this orchard; these trees have been feeling the soft tug of his gloves for a hundred years. Now it's ...

epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Robert Pinsky

The Generation Before TO FRANK BIDART The wind blew. Some days, rain Falling the size of nickels Splashed up over the curb. There were hats for that, and for sun ...

epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Dobyns

BALANCE The other day I looked for Jimmy Hoffa’s grave (I didn’t find it) as our southbound train sped through the New Jersey Meadowlands buried beneath two or three inches ...

epub |eng | 1998-12-15 | Author:Ben Belitt

THE ORPHANING 1. A Failed Rage Clear Idiot, I understand. The adversary need not be struck, or the blow returned. Your foreknowledge of the deed is enough, and proves mighty. ...

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 ...