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The Family Photograph
2023-12-06by Vona Groarke In the window of the drawing-room there is a rush of white as you pass in which the figure of your husband is, for a moment, framed. H...
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The Family Group
2023-12-06by Madeline DeFrees That Sunday at the zoo I understood the child I never had would look like this: stiff-fingered spastic hands, a steady drool, and ...
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The Fall of Rome
2023-12-06by W. H. Auden The piers are pummelled by the waves; In a lonely field the rain Lashes an abandoned train; Outlaws fill the mountain caves. Fantastic ...
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The European Shoe
2023-12-06by Michael Benedikt The European Shoe is covered with grass and reed, bound up and wound around so that it may slip easily over the wearer's head....
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Go Down, Death
2023-12-06by James Weldon Johnson (A Funeral Sermon) Weep not, weep not, She is not dead; She's resting in the bosom of Jesus. Heart-broken husband—&m...
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The Eternal City
2023-12-06by Jim Simmerman Sometimes I picture your face on money. But this isn't Rome, where they know what money's worth, which is almost the paper it...
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The Escape
2023-12-06by Mark Halperin Amused when she asks, is your wife Jewish? and, because it's easier, because I don't want to think, I answer yes. It's th...
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The Empty Quarter
2023-12-06by John Canaday In early spring, here in the Rub 'al Khali, Gabriel swings his goad over the humped backs of swollen clouds. They roar like angry ...
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The Emperor of Ice-Cream
2023-12-06by Wallace Stevens Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups concupiscent curds. Let the wenches dawdle in suc...
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Gladdening
2023-12-06by Jessie Haas Feed them some small treat. Notice the surprised forward flick of ears, the lightening and softening of their large, beautiful eyes. Ho...