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Bomb Crater Sky
2023-12-06by Lam Thi My Da They say that you, a road builder Had such love for our country You rushed out and waved your torch To call the bombs down on yoursel...
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The Lullaby of History
2023-12-06by Kevin Boyle I put the bookmark in the page after Lincoln's silence during the 1860 campaign, after no one in the Gulf States cast a single vote...
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The Lover
2023-12-06by Reetika Vazirani I took the train from Patiala, left the girls with Ayah, and lied, I'm with Faye and Daisy. Had to say what he'd approve o...
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The Lost Pilot
2023-12-06by James Tate Your face did not rot like the others——the co-pilot, for example, I saw him yesterday. His face is corn- mush: his wife and ...
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The Little Mute Boy
2023-12-06by Federico García Lorca (Translated by W. S. Merwin) The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of...
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Bolivia
2023-12-06by Gwen Head (and her daughter) I hate the sea. I've always hated water even as a baby, even in my bath, or so my mama says. She likes it, herself...
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Bog Myrtle V
2023-12-06by Pansy Maurer-Alvarez from a series of coiled basket forms by Anna S. King, textile artist Take bog myrtle that unprepossessing marshland shrub with...
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Body and Soul
2023-12-06by Charles Wright (for Coleman Hawkins) The structure of landscape is infinitesimal, Like the structure of music, seamless, invisible. Even the rain h...
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The List of Famous Hats
2023-12-06by James Tate Napoleon's hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famous hat, but that's not the hat I have in mind. That was his hat for...
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Boaz Asleep
2023-12-06by Victor Hugo Translated by Brooks Haxton Boaz, overcome with weariness, by torchlight made his pallet on the threshing floor where all day he had wo...