Subjects & Themes
epub |eng | 2018-02-08 | Author:Peter Mishler

To purchase a little land, to take a little shut-eye beneath the friezes of the state, to learn the position of the heavens inlaid on the ceilings of our country’s ...
( Category: Places January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Tina Schumann

CENTRAL AVE. Along the avenue a regiment of trees stood rigid, and in the house as big as a Saturday the clocks ticked on amid stagnant air, slack doorknobs, paint ...
( Category: Places January 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-27 | Author:Laurie Sheck [Sheck, Laurie]

He laid her softly down, that weight he knew so well, weight of the terrible eyes, the hissing hair, having carried it always since he’d slain her. Kept her there ...
( Category: Death January 9,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-12-15 | Author:B.K. Fischer

CATCH Troughs catch rain to drink, catch all the rain they can to bathe cook sip. That’s the catch— wet in a world of wet you wait for a trickle ...
( Category: Nature December 23,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

AERIE By following many a color-coded corridor and taking an elevator up through the heart of the hospital amid patients with the indignant stare of parrots from within their cages ...
( Category: Nature December 20,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Daniel Borzutzky

How I Got Here An Interview with Espinoza —for Kristin Dykstra I blame my father’s father and my mother blames my mother’s father and my father blames my father’s mother ...
( Category: Places December 19,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donald Hall

He liked to repeat advice that Rodin gave to young sculptors: “If you’re working on a maquette, and it doesn’t go right, don’t keep picking at the clay, making little ...
( Category: Death December 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-05-15 | Author:Kendra Allen

Bloom. The water cycle, she sings. Manipulating moods for us to remember what will be on the weekly test. Everybody knows she’s a singer interrupted by a coastline. The water ...
( Category: Places December 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Nancy Lee [Lee, Nancy]

iii. Did they even want daughters? Sons so adored, rut-hungry, bottle-weak, sloppy work with a scythe. Who didn’t know his charm, the lanolin musk of his wool? And what if ...
( Category: Places December 19,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-12-15 | Author:Kim Dower

They will take it to a lab, run tests to see if I have the gene that will change my life, one my grandmother who died of breast cancer may ...
( Category: Death December 15,2022 )
epub |eng | 2002-12-15 | Author:Bruce Weigl

NOTHING ELSE SUTRA We were sleeping among the topiary in a foreign land I had come to love like my own mind. We were street-smart and jiving to the newest ...
( Category: Places December 12,2022 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-28 | Author:Paul Hoover

IF I KNEW Drawing the bow intensely then suddenly releasing. No arrow. But feeling little pain. Maybe the arrow secretly shot back, but I don’t know. Sometimes I choke when ...
( Category: Places December 6,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Knopf [Knopf]

From the sweet glues of the trotters Come the sweet kinks of the fist, from the full flower Of the hams the thorax of caves, From “Bow Down” come “Rise ...
( Category: Death December 6,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

THE JOLLY GREENE GIANT Or is it more shocking … to be forced to consider that he may now be the largest of living English novelists?—Greene, the ambidextrous producer of ...
( Category: Places December 5,2022 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:John Updike [Updike, John]

April–August 1968 Poems FIREWORKS These spasms and chrysanthemums of light are like emotions exploding under a curved night that corresponds to the dark firmament within. See, now, the libidinous flare, ...
( Category: Nature December 5,2022 )