Subjects & Themes
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 )
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 )
epub |eng | 2022-01-22 | Author:Emily Bevan

and um and the scoutmaster failed to appear. And we were a bit concerned. And eventually summed up the courage to go to the common room – a smoke-fugged place ...
( Category: Death December 3,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:William Butler Yeats [Yeats, William Butler]

Thereon the bellowing of the empounded herds Rose round the walls, and through the bronze-ringed door Jostled and shouted those war-wasted men, And in the midst King Eochaid's brother stood, ...
( Category: Places December 3,2022 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-15 | Author:Edith Sitwell

And all the Furies in our hearts Beat stripes that mark the prediluvian Tiger . . . No flood washed away That furious darkness, striped upon A heart light as ...
( Category: Nature December 1,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cecilia Woloch

But love, we are vagabonds still, our sleep full of bells and kisses, wind. We have never touched one another enough. We have never completely eaten our fill. If I ...
( Category: Death November 29,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ruth Padel [Padel, Ruth]

Did oak trees spread to England after the ice age, or colonise it? Shift the language and you shift the perspective. Even with algae and fish, that word ‘colonise’ entails ...
( Category: Places November 29,2022 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:Clea Roberts [Roberts, Clea]

II Look — every shadow has a colour. Stay and rest in the thin shawl of dusk. What to Carry With You In August of the year that ruined and ...
( Category: Places November 29,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Deborah Landau

* How is it to have a body today and walk in this city in the sun, a bit shocked to find ourselves actually here with books and teacups and ...
( Category: Love October 29,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-04-30 | Author:Soraya Peerbaye

Craigflower Bridge, south 1. When the tide goes out, there’s – there was mud there – damp of wood trestles, the Gorge, low, oil-black. Tattered strands of eelgrass. Dingy, drab, ...
( Category: Death October 24,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-02 | Author:Laura Clarke

III. Dead Mule Zone IV: Overwork What happened to the mule? The mule? The mule died. Of course. — CORMAC MCCARTHY, THE CROSSING Supervisor: You’re not paid overtime unless you ...
( Category: Nature October 24,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-01-19 | Author:Linda Gregerson

the world dropped out from under us and no one, not the on-calls with their CAT scans, not the sovereign souls who monitor the twilit room where newborns come to ...
( Category: Nature October 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:Kathleen Driskell

Seven years later, an itch— full of regret, sorry he had not made copies of the originals, he paid four copper coins to have her dug back up. The two ...
( Category: Places October 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-08 | Author:Adam Clay

in the world that cannot be classified as movement are happening elsewhere, I can congratulate the night for bringing me here. And what we lose in defending nothing is something ...
( Category: Nature October 10,2022 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Sappho

Absence My cup is empty to-night, Cold and dry are its sides, Chilled by the wind from the open window. Empty and void, it sparkles white in the moonlight. The ...
( Category: Death October 10,2022 )