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The sisters of the broken candle
2023-12-06by Eric Baus covered every window in the house with x-rays of my bandaged eye. "working backwards from the sky" says she follows every fissu...
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The Silence
2023-12-06by Philip Schultz You always called late and drunk, your voice luxurious with pain, I, tightly wrapped in dreaming, listening as if to a ghost. Tonigh...
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The Ship
2023-12-06by William Logan The sunlight burned like wire on the water, that morning the ghost ship drove upriver. The only witness was a Jersey cow. Florid and ...
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The Shield of Achilles
2023-12-06by W. H. Auden She looked over his shoulder For vines and olive trees, Marble well-governed cities And ships upon untamed seas, But there on the shini...
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The Shapes of Leaves
2023-12-06by Arthur Sze Ginkgo, cottonwood, pin oak, sweet gum, tulip tree: our emotions resemble leaves and alive to their shapes we are nourished. Have you fe...
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The Shadows of Words
2023-12-06by Edgar Gabriel Silex I can't imagine a mother calling her child that I remember I used to fumble my words shy away always feigning ignorance I...
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The Separate Rose: I
2023-12-06by Pablo Neruda (Translated by William O'Daly) Today is that day, the day that carried a desperate light that since has died. Don't let the sq...
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The Seekers of Lice
2023-12-06by Arthur Rimbaud (Translated by Jeremy Harding) When the boy's head, full of raw torment, Longs for hazy dreams to swarm in white, Two charming o...
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The Script
2023-12-06by Mónica de la Torre I. You thought this would be a dance lesson, things were easier then. No marimbas, no clarinets; only a longing for the f...
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The Satyr's Heart
2023-12-06by Brigit Pegeen Kelly Now I rest my head on the satyr's carved chest, The hollow where the heart would have been, if sandstone Had a heart, if a ...