epub |eng | 2018-12-15 | Author:Gary Soto [Soto, Gary]

After the rain You wore the heat like a shirt, You drank until your mouth Hung open and no longer Bothered to shrug off the flies. Later you rested under ...

epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:Jacques J. Rancourt

whatever happens to fall in. Today when I step on my shower mat I’m stepping on my cat. Today this critter I loved more than I love most people leaked ...

epub |eng | 2020-12-31 | Author:Jack Gilbert [Gilbert, Jack]

THE DANGER OF WISDOM We learn to live without passion. To be reasonable. We go hungry amid the giant granaries this world is. We store up plenty for when we ...

epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Ted Kooser

Sounds of a Summer Night Up to his smile in the pond, the leopard frog plays his kazoo. A June bug plunks the dobro of a window screen. On a ...

epub |eng | | Author:Sarojini Naidu

What can rival your lovely hue O gorgeous boon of the spring? The glimmering red of a bridal robe, Rich red of a wild bird’s wing? Or the mystic blaze ...

epub |eng | | Author:TC Tolbert

LATITUDE: [PERCEIVED OBSOLESCENCE]: UNPLANNED (we lay there for months drawing back tiny muscle. and grafting an exegesis of skin.) My voice, which is the most terrible gift from me. Indiscriminately. ...

epub |eng | 2022-10-15 | Author:Jasmine Elizabeth Smith

IV Now I can read his letters; I sure can’t read his mind. I thought he’s lovin’ me; He’s leavin’ all the time. Now I see my poor love was ...

epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Divya Victor

CURB 2 Mesa Star Chevron Gas Station Mesa, Arizona to bend tall grasses to edge brittlebush to bowcamphorweed to restrainpricklyleaf to end paperflowers a knee give way to yards folded ...

epub |eng | | Author:Mosab Abu Toha

I’m no longer wearing my slippers, the 5 shekels have disappeared. I look around. People are rushing toward us. A vehicle approaches. “Ambulance” it says. But there is no paramedic, ...

epub |eng | 2020-10-15 | Author:Gabriel Kruis

REGRESSION “Cold winds blowing And life looks like some malignant disease, Viewed from the heights of reason Which I don’t believe in,” Bernadette Mayer “You murmur your magic (what help ...

epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Kevin Goodan

Jet boats ferry us up the Salmon River as far as they can and we clamber off, portion out gear to hike the fourteen miles to the ignition site of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Aria Aber [Aber, Aria]

Schönheit / Beauty Did he not, after all, visit Rodin to find the perfect poem? To understand our obsession with beauty? After The Book of Hours, Rilke unfolded his soul ...

epub |eng | 2020-10-15 | Author:John Freeman

Charity In the mouth of the church two men, three women picnic away from the rain, a man in rags beside them sleeping. Before they plate sandwiches, cornichons, fresh pears, ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-11 | Author:Lucas Crawford

epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Douglas Kearney

On His knees, when back beneath peace trees after the Foe tongued the hot fork down the holiest holy cochlea. This I, This I— A he/“Him” rode with the devil, ...