Subjects & Themes
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Dunn

Mrs. Cavendish and the Outlaw The cross-dresser, the albino, the man who once had legs, and so many others out there displaying their otherness— Mrs. Cavendish, how long it took ...
( Category: Death January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Kay Ryan

Les Petites Confitures (The Little Jams) These three pieces in Satie’s elegant notation were just discovered at the Métro station where he rolled them in a Figaro of April twenty-second, ...
( Category: Nature January 28,2023 )
epub |eng | 2003-01-15 | Author:Susan Kinsolving

the present go? Gift-wrapping and ribbon, or are we talking now? Better than razor wire, synapses snare, catch in the cranium, and show solitary confinement on a comfy death row ...
( Category: Death January 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-27 | Author:Keetje Kuipers

Last week my gynecologist showed me pictures she took of my uterus: scar tissue wisping up like signal fire smoke and in other spots black holes stretched on my flesh. ...
( Category: Death January 27,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Marianne Worthington

Minor Detour through an Old Knoxville Neighborhood The apartment complex at Arbor Place where I shared a one-bedroom with my cousin bears the derelict face of abuse. Doors and windows ...
( Category: Places January 20,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-15 | Author:Jessica Cotten

Forgotten Ember stars shine and so do I. if it’s dark, there’s a light. there has to be. Right? Maybe it’s me. I hold the light. Three The Sound Outside ...
( Category: Nature January 19,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Willy Conley

II. EXISTENTIALS Verisimilitude versus Vicissitude When I go out in public, occasionally I see a man who I think used to look like me, looks like me, or who I ...
( Category: Nature January 18,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-31 | Author:Walter Savage Landor [Landor, Walter Savage]

( Category: Love January 18,2023 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Hunt Leigh [Hunt, Leigh]

( Category: Love January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-17 | Author:Jo Bell [Bell, Jo]

and April falls across the parish like stained glass; like rest for the broken-backed. The diarist writes one word to stand for spring – Luscinia! Colour blurs along the quickened ...
( Category: Places January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kyce Bello [Bello, Kyce]

Dowsing Driving from one shady place to the next takes all day, and if it seems we get along I will tell you the frenzy of locoweed blown flat against ...
( Category: Nature January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ron Padgett

Wait A second. I mean a minute. Then a day or two. Longer, like years. There grows a tree in paradise and children say things. What do they know, those ...
( Category: Nature January 17,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Leo Boix [Boix, Leo]

We plunge into the darkness of old Shirley House, inn for poor mariners. Nobody’s alive. Shipwrecks. The antique lamps you bought are lit with care. We hug for heat. Let ...
( Category: Places January 16,2023 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-03 | Author:Jonathan Bate

Ben Jonson On the Death of my First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips, born the 23rd of April, and died the 2nd of May 1655 Twice forty months in wedlock ...
( Category: Death January 15,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Chrissy Williams [Chrissy Williams]

‘Shall we put the kettle on?’ is what I actually say. For here there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life. RILIKE, ‘Archaic Torso ...
( Category: Death January 14,2023 )