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Reapers
2023-12-06by Jean Toomer Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Are sharpening scythes. I see them place the hones In their hip-pockets as a thing that...
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Real Life
2023-12-06by Lucie Brock-Broido Soon the electrical wires will grow heavy under the snow. I am thinking of fire of the possibility of fire & then moving Acr...
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Skating in Harlem, Christmas Day
2023-12-06by Cynthia Zarin To Mary Jo Salter Beyond the ice-bound stones and bucking trees, past bewildered Mary, the Meer in snow, two skating rinks and two bl...
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Sitting Outside
2023-12-06by W. D. Snodgrass These lawn chairs and the chaise lounge of bulky redwood were purchased for my father twenty years ago, then plumped down in the ya...
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Readings in French
2023-12-06by Larry Levis 1. Looking into the eyes of Gerard de Nerval You notice the giant sea crabs rising. Which is what happens When you look into the eyes o...
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Sinners Welcome
2023-12-06by Mary Karr I opened up my shirt to show this man the flaming heart he lit in me, and I was scooped up like a lamb and carried to the dim warm. I who...
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Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet
2023-12-06by Tony Hoagland At this height, Kansas is just a concept, a checkerboard design of wheat and corn no larger than the foldout section of my neighbor...
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Single Vision & Newton's Sleep
2023-12-06by Ben Doyle Lick the lights. Everyone says that here. Sometimes they'll call a spade a shovel, hollowing half a hole, which is all I have to slee...
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Since Hannah Moved Away
2023-12-06by Judith Viorst The tires on my bike are flat. The sky is grouchy gray. At least it sure feels like that Since Hanna moved away. Chocolate ice cream ...
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Silverswords
2023-12-06by Juliet S. Kono At cold daybreak we wind up the mountainside to Haleakala Crater. Our hands knot under the rough of your old army blanket. We pass p...