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Barrio with Sketchy Detail
2023-12-06by Andrea Werblin Except for the chickens humming to each other, making themselves look boneless in the dirt, I want no memory of this place. I will l...
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Barbed Wire
2023-12-06by Ralph Burns Two or more strands twisted together, Oxides and baser salts, admixture Of carbon, metal of lash and scourge, Strung like a virus, barb...
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Bantams in Pine-Woods
2023-12-06by Wallace Stevens Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan Of tan with henna hackles, halt! Damned universal cock, as if the sun Was blackamoor to bear y...
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by Franois Villon Translated by Galway Kinnell I die of thirst beside the fountain I'm hot as fire, I'm shaking tooth on tooth In my own count...
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Back with the Quakers
2023-12-06by Betsy Sholl You think you can handle these things: sunlight glinting off a red Jaguar honking at the old woman who has snagged her shopping cart on...
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Back Stairwell
2023-12-06by Mark Rudman I've chosen to take the stairs. It's harder, but quicker than waiting for the elevator which seems eternally stuck on R-Roof. A...
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Baby Tortoise
2023-12-06by D.H. Lawrence You know what it is to be born alone, Baby tortoise! The first day to heave your feet little by little from the shell, Not yet awake,...
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Juvenile Hall Teacher
2023-12-06by Timothy Dekin Back from a 12-hour pass, My student lays her Camel on the desk. The thin smoke rises in a rope that flutters A little to her breathi...
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Just One of Those Things
2023-12-06by Cole Porter VERSE As Dorothy Parker Once said to her boy friend, "Fare thee well," As Columbus announced when he knew he was bounced, &qu...
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June Light
2023-12-06by Richard Wilbur Your voice, with clear location of June days, Called me outside the window. You were there, Light yet composed, as in the just soft ...