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Broadway
2023-12-06by Mark Doty Under Grand Central's tattered vault ——maybe half a dozen electric stars still lit—— one saxophone blew, and ...
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The Métier of Blossoming
2023-12-06by Denise Levertov Fully occupied with growing——that's the amaryllis. Growing especially at night: it would take only a bit more patie...
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The Menders and the Breakers
2023-12-06by Lesle Lewis The rain does not cool and is a sticky one to the present and the place. Is it a weakness, yours for narcotics? The trees levitate and ...
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The Mediterranean
2023-12-06by Allen Tate Where we went in the boat was a long bay a slingshot wide, walled in by towering stone—— Peaked margin of antiquity's de...
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Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks
2023-12-06by Jane Kenyon I am the blossom pressed in a book, found again after two hundred years. . . . I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper. . . . When th...
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The Meaning of Zero: A Love Poem
2023-12-06by Amy Uyematsu A mere eyelid's distance between you and me. It took us a long time to discover the number zero. John's brother is afraid to g...
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Break of Day
2023-12-06by John Donne Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie do...
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The Match
2023-12-06by Chad Davidson The burner and the blackout crave you: pilot of heat, purveyor of the innocent candle and cigarette, light we tamed then fed to the n...
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Brad Pitt
2023-12-06by Aaron Smith With cotton candy armpits and sugary Crevices, sweat glazing your donut skin. Have you ever been fat, Brad? Have you ever wanted a Snic...
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Botanica
2023-12-06by Eve Alexandra They are everywhere——those sunflowers with the coal heart center. They riot without speaking, huge, wet mouths caught at ...