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Couple Sharing a Peach
2023-12-06by Molly Peacock It's not the first time we've bitten into a peach. But now at the same time it splits——half for each. Our "t...
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Those Winter Sundays
2023-12-06by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the...
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Those Graves in Rome
2023-12-06by Larry Levis There are places where the eye can starve, But not here. Here, for example, is The Piazza Navona, & here is his narrow room Overloo...
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This Work
2023-12-06by Martha Zweig The cold orange hands of the salamanders still wrap and unwrap the baby he dreams he was then long before there was any human family. ...
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This Was Once a Love Poem
2023-12-06by Jane Hirshfield This was once a love poem, before its haunches thickened, its breath grew short, before it found itself sitting, perplexed and a li...
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Country Fair
2023-12-06by Charles Simic If you didn't see the six-legged dog, It doesn't matter. We did, and he mostly lay in the corner. As for the extra legs, One ...
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This Morning
2023-12-06by Charles Simic Enter without knocking, hard-working ant. I'm just sitting here mulling over What to do this dark, overcast day? It was a night o...
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This Living Hand
2023-12-06by John Keats This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days...
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Counting What the Cactus Contains
2023-12-06by Pattiann Rogers Elf owl, cactus wren, fruit flies incubating In the only womb they'll ever recognize. Shadow for the sand rat, spines And barba...
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This is a Wonderful Poem
2023-12-06by David Wagoner Come at it carefully, don't trust it, that isn't its right name, It's wearing stolen rags, it's never been washed, it...