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In Search of Small Gods by Harrison Jim
epub |eng | | Author:Harrison, Jim

Shortcomings Only thirteen birds at first light. Some are near the French doors to tell me that they need more food. I did poorly at French and Italian but know ...
( Category: United States March 23,2020 )
Threshold Songs by Peter Gizzi
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Peter Gizzi

on my voice box. I have kept my head up. Have kept myself out of trouble but deep is trouble deep is mother. Deep the song inside summer. Did I ...
( Category: United States March 23,2020 )
Sweet Machine by Mark Doty
epub |eng | 2007-03-14 | Author:Mark Doty [Mark Doty]

in a single hue: gothic ruin, country views unfolding in exactly that 1950s elementary-school-fountain-pen blue. A laundress scrubs by the riverbank. A priest reads. Variable beasts (a clutch of sheep, ...
( Category: United States March 23,2020 )
Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart
epub |eng | | Author:Frank Bidart

THINGS FALLING FROM GREAT HEIGHTS Spasm of vision you crave like a secular pentecost The subject of this poem is how much the spaces that you now move in cost ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
Eyes with Winged Thoughts by Gordon Parks
epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:Gordon Parks

Deep inside his bag were dreams that had roamed inside me for ninety years. Some, wrapped in pain, arrived slowly. Others, many others, refused to show up. No longer do ...
( Category: Photo Essays March 22,2020 )
Itself by Rae Armantrout
epub |eng | 2015-03-14 | Author:Rae Armantrout

THE WAIT A story deals with distance; how it can be crossed. There will be dangerous animals in the form of questions. Some Jack of Clubs will have hit upon ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
I’m Too Young To Be Seventy by Judith Viorst
epub |eng | | Author:Judith Viorst

( Category: Limericks & Humorous Verse March 22,2020 )
That This by Susan Howe
epub |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Susan Howe [Howe, Susan]

Nietzsche says that for Heraclitus all contradictions run into harmony, even if they are invisible to the human eye. Lyric is transparent—as hard to see as black or glare ice. ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
Hybrids of Plants and of Ghosts by Graham Jorie
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Graham, Jorie

III FRAMING Something is left out, something left behind. As, for instance, in this photo of myself at four, the eyes focus elsewhere, the hand interrupted mid-air by some enormous, ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
Light While There is Light by Keith Waldrop
epub |eng | | Author:Keith Waldrop

VIII All his years in the navy, Charles bought books—and read them. He began making outlines and charts for each book, then for aggregates of books. Finally—I have a photo ...
( Category: Biographical March 22,2020 )
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire by Brenda Hillman
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:Brenda Hillman

AS THE ROOTS PREPARE FOR LITERATURE Sound, what is your muse? Just now, we found a meaning but too soon— cckkcckk … Dawn sprinklers start & crickets wheel, they go ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
God's Silence by Franz Wright
epub |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Franz Wright [Wright, Franz]

Sacrament of metaphor, sacrament of matter Aren't stars almost in your vicinity It was only the barest beginning starward- bound, only the March branches, only the first gifts of the ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
Imperfect Thirst by Galway Kinnell
epub, azw3 |eng | | Author:Galway Kinnell [Kinnell, Galway]

RAPTURE I can feel she has got out of bed. That means it is seven A.M. I have been lying with eyes shut, thinking, or possibly dreaming, of how she ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
When a Woman Loves a Man by David Lehman
epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:David Lehman

One Day at a Time What goes around comes around. I made up that phrase this morning. Do you like it? Would you like to use it? Be my guest. ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )
Special Orders by Edward Hirsch
epub |eng | 2008-03-14 | Author:Edward Hirsch [Hirsch, Edward]

I cared too much what other people thought and made remarks I shouldn't have made. I was silent when I should have spoken. Forgive me, philosophers, I read the Stoics ...
( Category: United States March 22,2020 )

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