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Consolation Miracle
2023-12-06by Chad Davidson In the pewless church of San Juan Chula, a Neocatholic Tzozil Indian wrings a chicken's neck. Through pi?oned air, stars from tou...
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Concord Hymn
2023-12-06by Ralph Waldo Emerson By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And...
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Concerning the Angel at 5th & 53rd
2023-12-06by J. P. White Every city has them——pools of helmeted, stained men Clustered around engines grinding through night. White arc lights sear ...
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Company of Moths
2023-12-06by Michael Palmer We thought it could all be found in The Book of Poor Text, the shadow the boat casts, angled mast, fretted wake, indigo eye. Windows...
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Coming Close
2023-12-06by Philip Levine Take this quiet woman, she has been standing before a polishing wheel for over three hours, and she lacks twenty minutes before she c...
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The Wash
2023-12-06by Sarah Getty A round white troll with a black, greasy heart shuddered and hummed "Diogenes, Diogenes," while it sloshed the wash. It staye...
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The War Works Hard
2023-12-06by Dunya Mikhail (Translated by Elizabeth Winslow) How magnificent the war is! How eager and efficient! Early in the morning it wakes up the sirens an...
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Cold Morning
2023-12-06by Eamon Grennan Through an accidental crack in the curtain I can see the eight o'clock light change from charcoal to a faint gassy blue, inventin...
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Cockroaches: Ars Poetica
2023-12-06by Chad Davidson They know that death is merely of the body not the species, know that their putrid chitin is always memorable. We call them ugly with...
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Coat
2023-12-06by Peg Boyers At eleven I learned to lie. Disobedience and its partner, deception, became my constant companions. How enormous then that first transgr...