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What Do You See?: Poems of Perception by William K. Leutz
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:William K. Leutz

First Snowfall 2000 I woke last night to hear the hand of winter scatter sleet across the window pane as wind’s whine came whistling through the eaves. In the morning, ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious January 13,2023 )
Travelers Leaving for the City by Ed Skoog
epub |eng | 2020-01-15 | Author:Ed Skoog

Clayton’s Friend from Back Home Who Came to the City to See Widespread Panic One Halloween at the New Orleans Lakefront Arena, Disappeared, and Then She Walked By the Pizza ...
( Category: Family January 13,2023 )
Coffee and Papercuts by Leah Bailey
epub |eng | 2022-04-30 | Author:Leah Bailey

Title Poem What we have all endured Coffee and Papercuts January The coffee brings me calm in the morning, The papercuts should be fair warning. First of the year began, ...
( Category: Family January 13,2023 )
Paper Girl and the Knives that Made Her by Ari B. Cofer
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Ari B. Cofer

when our skin is too much my husband is a black man. he is beautiful and dark-skinned and puts the earth’s soil to shame— not because his melanin is darker ...
( Category: Death, Grief & Loss January 6,2023 )
Nocturnal by Wilder
epub |eng | 2019-04-25 | Author:Wilder

in a not-so-distant sky i overheard the moon share stories with the clouds about the way things change. please don’t cry when i go. darkness is a familiar ghost and ...
( Category: Nature January 6,2023 )
Endless Life by Scott Cairns
epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Scott Cairns

(c. 579–649) Saint John of the Ladder was born in Syria and entered the monastery at the age of sixteen. After the death of his spiritual father, Martyrius John, the ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious January 5,2023 )
The Anti-Grief by Marianne Boruch
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Marianne Boruch

To Be in Conversation, He Says, With Henry James of course. I’m asked at dinner if I too have read The Jolly Corner, the best, a marvel, no question. Me, ...
( Category: Nature January 5,2023 )
Ambiguities of War: A Narratological Commentary on Silius Italicus' Battle of Ticinus (Sil. 4.1-479) by Elisabeth Schedel;
pdf | | 2022-09-20 | Author:Elisabeth Schedel;

( Category: Epic January 1,2023 )
Love's Last Madness: Poems on a Spiritual Path by Darshan Singh
epub |eng | 2001-09-14 | Author:Darshan Singh [Singh, Darshan]

yĕh kahāṠkī dostī hai kĕh bane haiṠdost nāṣiḥ ko’ī chārah-sāz hotā ko’ī ġham-gusār hotā¹⁶⁵ What kind of friendship is this when the friend does nothing but give advice? ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious December 27,2022 )
Echoes of Candor Poetry and Epigrams by Adam Smith
epub |eng | 2018-02-09 | Author:Adam Smith

PART III 201 I wasn't mentally ready to crawl into that direction— That section of life has its own selection. The journey to the absence of any kind of perfection, ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious December 24,2022 )
Late Summer Ode by Olena Kalytiak Davis
epub |eng | | Author:Olena Kalytiak Davis

the nasturtiums their leaves WERE pretty, “what time IS it?” as i loved to ask … the chair fell thru the cracks i sat on the wet spot i stained ...
( Category: Family December 21,2022 )
What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer
epub |eng | 2020-09-02 | Author:Kate Baer

First Woman First woman, then mother. Heart-eyed and weak-kneed in the pale nursery light. Hold your tender battle wounds and be baptized in the cold slant of rain against the ...
( Category: Family December 21,2022 )
Changing with the Tides by Shelby Leigh
epub |eng | 2022-05-30 | Author:Shelby Leigh

i can’t erase you from my mind but maybe i can scrub you from my skin so i turn my face to the sky and let the rain sink in. ...
( Category: Inspirational & Religious December 20,2022 )
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
epub |eng | | Author:Ada Limón

IT’S THE SEASON I OFTEN MISTAKE Birds for leaves, and leaves for birds. The tawny yellow mulberry leaves are always goldfinches tumbling across the lawn like extreme elation. The last ...
( Category: Family December 20,2022 )
Water I Won't Touch by Kayleb Rae Candrilli
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Kayleb Rae Candrilli

lip color, its mouth opening dark-deep— like a sinkhole, or your trans lover’s eager and previously abused mouth. Nobody wants to be lonely, least of all me. Maybe I am ...
( Category: Family December 20,2022 )

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