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The High-Toned Old Christian Woman
2023-12-06by Wallace Stevens Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The c...
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Believing in Iron
2023-12-06by Yusef Komunyakaa The hills my brothers & I created Never balanced, & it took years To discover how the world worked. We could look at a tre...
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The Hermit Goes Up Attic
2023-12-06by Maxine Kumin Up attic, Lucas Harrison, God rest his frugal bones, once kept a tidy account by knifecut of some long-gone harvest. The wood was new....
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Being Jewish in a Small Town
2023-12-06by Lyn Lifshin Someone writes kike on the blackboard and the "k's" pull thru the chalk stick in my plump pale thighs even after the high...
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The Helmet
2023-12-06by A. F. Moritz The greatest twentieth-century work of art is not a poem or a painting but the steel helmet: so said some Nazi curator. And indeed the...
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The Haunting
2023-12-06by Alan Shapiro It may not be the ghostly ballet of our avoidances that they'll remember, nor the long sulks of those last months, nor the voices ...
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Before the Snake
2023-12-06by Nathaniel Tarn Sitting, facing the sun, eyes closed. I can hear the sun. I can hear the bird life all around for miles. It flies through us and aro...
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The Happiness
2023-12-06by Jack Hirschman There's a happiness, a joy in one soul, that's been buried alive in everyone and forgotten. It isn't your barroom joke o...
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Bedtime Story
2023-12-06by Wanda Coleman bed calls. i sit in the dark in the living room trying to ignore them in the morning, especially Sunday mornings it will not let me u...
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The Guitar
2023-12-06by Federico García Lorca (Translated by Cola Franzen) The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the gui...