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The Poems I Have Not Written
2023-12-06by John Brehm I'm so wildly unprolific, the poems I have not written would reach from here to the California coast if you laid them end to end. An...
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The Poem as Mask
2023-12-06by Muriel Rukeyser When I wrote of the women in their dances and wildness, it was a mask, on their mountain, gold-hunting, singing, in orgy, it was a ...
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Channel 2: Horowitz Playing Mozart
2023-12-06by Sarah Getty sits with a small smile, watching two speckled frogs or lizards run right and left, apart, together on long legs bendable as rubber. He...
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The Poem
2023-12-06by Daniel Hoffman Arriving at last It has stumbled across the harsh Stones, the black marshes. True to itself, by what craft And strength it has, it h...
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Change in the Grove of Chickadees
2023-12-06by Lesle Lewis Happy for nothing, we could be with no dinner to cook. Absence is gigantic in our heads and houses. We‘re old and it’s bold...
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The Pleasures of Fear
2023-12-06by Judith Ortiz Cofer We played a hiding game, the son of my mother's friend and I, until he chased me into the toolshed and bolted the door from ...
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Ceriserie
2023-12-06by Joshua Clover Music: Sexual misery is wearing you out. Music: Known as the Philosopher‘s Stair for the world-weariness which climbing it insp...
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The Plaid Dress
2023-12-06by Edna St. Vincent Millay Strong sun, that bleach The curtains of my room, can you not render Colourless this dress I wear?—— This violen...
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Central Park, Carousel
2023-12-06by Meena Alexander June already, it's your birth month, nine months since the towers fell. I set olive twigs in my hair torn from a tree in Centra...
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
2023-12-06by Robert Browning I Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A ...