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The Unknown Citizen
2023-12-06by W. H. Auden He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports on his conduct agr...
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Churst Apollo
2023-12-06by Joyce James Think on it! In the beginning Had not occurred such thing as mortal Death. Walked hand in hand our new Maide children the sweetest aisl...
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The Two
2023-12-06by Philip Levine When he gets off work at Packard, they meet outside a diner on Grand Boulevard. He's tired, a bit depressed, and smelling the exh...
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Churchgoing
2023-12-06by Marilyn Nelson The Lutherans sit stolidly in rows; only their children feel the holy ghost that makes them jerk and bobble and almost destroys the ...
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The Truth the Dead Know
2023-12-06by Anne Sexton Gone, I say and walk from church, refusing the stiff procession to the grave, letting the dead ride alone in the hearse. It is June. I ...
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The Truth About Northern Lights
2023-12-06by Christine Hume I'm not right. I'm interfered with and bent as light. I tried to use the spots, for months I tried with rings. Only now I...
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Chrysalis
2023-12-06by Joan Murray 1 It's mid-September, and in the Magic Wing Butterfly Conservancy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, the woman at the register is ringing...
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The Trunk of the Olive Tree (an excerpt)
2023-12-06by Homer (Translated by Robert Fitzgerald) An old trunk of olive grew like a pillar on the building plot, and I laid out our bedroom round that tree, ...
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Chronicle of the Rain
2023-12-06by Rafael Pérez Estrada Translated by Steven J. Stewart One of her nipples was red, tepid, carnal; the other, blue, looked made for death's...
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The Tropics of New York
2023-12-06by Claude McKay Bananas ripe and green, and ginger root Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit, Fit for the hig...