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God the Broken Lock
2023-12-06by David Rivard I've died enough by now I trust just what's imperfect or ruined. I mean God， God who is in the stop sign asking to be shotgunn...
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The First Winter Snow
2023-12-06by Richard Brautigan Oh， pretty girl， you have trapped yourself in the wrong body. Twenty extra pounds hang like a lumpy tapestry on your perfect mamm...
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The First Place (somewhere outside Eden)
2023-12-06by Kurt S. Olsson Listen. It was wrong from the beginning. Never more than an afterthought， I was blamed. Understandable： the weak never have the pati...
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The Fire Stays in Red
2023-12-06by Ronny Someck （Translated by Barbara Goldberg and Moshe Dor） End of December and the green of King Saul Avenue copies itself from leaves， the fire r...
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by Benjamin Alire Saenz A man is walking toward me. He is alone. He has been walking through the desert. He has been walking for days. He has been wal...
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Gobbo Remembers His Youth
2023-12-06by David Cappella Let me tell you about suffering because I was a boy cold without love in a large house， so dark it stifled laughs. I would run to my...
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The Feast of Lights
2023-12-06by Emma Lazarus Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth， And add each night a lustre till afar An...
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Go, lovely rose!
2023-12-06by Edmund Waller Go， lovely rose！ Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows， When I resemble her to thee， How sweet and fair she seems t...
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The Father of the Predicaments
2023-12-06by Heather McHugh He came at night to each of us asleep And trained us in the virtues we most lacked. Me he admonished to return his stare Correctly， ...
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Go Greyhound
2023-12-06by Bob Hicok A few hours after Des Moines the toilet overflowed. This wasn't the adventure it sounds. I sat with a man whose tattoos weighed more ...