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blessing the boats
2023-12-06by Lucille Clifton (at St. Mary's) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may y...
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Blankets of Bark
2023-12-06by Sherwin Bitsui Point north, north where they walk in long blankets of curled bark, dividing a line in the sand, smelling like cracked shell, desert...
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The Initiate
2023-12-06by Charles Simic St. John of the Cross wore dark glasses As he passed me on the street. St. Theresa of Avila, beautiful and grave, Turned her back on ...
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Black Stone Lying On A White Stone
2023-12-06by César Vallejo Translated by Robert Bly I will die in Paris, on a rainy day, on some day I can already remember. I will die in Paris—&m...
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The Idea of Order at Key West
2023-12-06by Wallace Stevens She sang beyond the genius of the sea. The water never formed to mind or voice, Like a body wholly body, fluttering Its empty sleev...
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Black Nikes
2023-12-06by Harryette Mullen We need quarters like King Tut needed a boat. A slave could row him to heaven from his crypt in Egypt full of loot. We've live...
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Birds Appearing In A Dream
2023-12-06by Michael Collier One had feathers like a blood-streaked koi, another a tail of color-coded wires. One was a blackbird stretching orchid wings, anoth...
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Birds Again
2023-12-06by Jim Harrison A secret came a week ago though I already knew it just beyond the bruised lips of consciousness. The very alive souls of thirty-five h...
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Birdcall
2023-12-06by Alicia Suskin Ostriker -for Elizabeth Bishop Tuwee, calls a bird near the house, Tuwee, cries another, downhill in the woods. No wind, early Septem...
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The Huron
2023-12-06by Ruth Herschberger I swam the Huron of love, and am not ashamed, It was many saw me do it, scoffing, scoffing, They said it was foolish, winter and ...