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Cement Guitar
2023-12-06by Michael Carlson All morning I've remembered St. Ignacio's bruise, jaundiced seagulls over Quonset, November and the gross white sky. Days s...
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The Philosopher in Florida
2023-12-06by C. Dale Young Midsummer lies on this town like a plague: locusts now replaced by humidity, the bloodied Nile now an algae-covered rivulet strugglin...
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Catch a Little Rhyme
2023-12-06by Eve Merriam Once upon a time I caught a little rhyme I set it on the floor but it ran right out the door I chased it on my bicycle but it melted to...
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The Pear
2023-12-06by Chad Davidson It's the consistency of flesh that drives us, how a pome ascends the stairs of its origin. A boy shakes pears down off the higher...
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Casey at the Bat
2023-12-06by Ernest Lawrence Thayer The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day: The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to pl...
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The Path
2023-12-06by Emily Fragos There is so little to go on: a pale trembling hand as I stand over you, my finger tracing the words on the page, a foreign language yo...
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Carrowmore
2023-12-06by Lucie Brock-Broido All about Carrowmore the lambs Were blotched blue, belonging. They were waiting for carnage or Snuff. This is why they are born ...
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Carrion Comfort
2023-12-06by Gerard Manley Hopkins Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist——slack they may be——these...
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by Carol Frost The bee-boy, merops apiater, on sultry thundery days filled his bosom between his coarse shirt and his skin with bees——his ...
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The Paper Nautilus
2023-12-06by Marianne Moore For authorities whose hopes are shaped by mercenaries? Writers entrapped by teatime fame and by commuters' comforts? Not for the...