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The Center of Attention
2023-12-06by Daniel Hoffman As grit swirls in the wind the word spreads. On pavements approaching the bridge a crowd Springs up like mushrooms. They are hushed ...
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The Case for Memory
2023-12-06by Jerome Rothenberg I was amok & fearless twice deceived for which I sought out satisfactions in a tree. Too carelessly I reached for love & ...
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by E. E. Cummings the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds (also, with the church's protestant ...
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From "The Riddle of Flat Circles"
2023-12-06by Aaron Fogel The Romans got their circling powers From a corps of Hellenic mathematicians. Rome——the container-skull, the fountainhead&m...
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The Burial
2023-12-06by Lynn Emanuel After I've goosed up the fire in the stove with Starter Logg so that it burns like fire on amphetamines; after it's imprisoned...
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The Bridge, Palm Sunday, 1973
2023-12-06by Alfred Corn It avails not. time nor place-distance avails not. . . -Whitman. "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" The bridge was a huge sentence dia...
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From "The Congressional Library"
2023-12-06by Amy Lowell Where else in all America are we so symbolized As in this hall? White columns polished like glass, A dome and a dome, A balcony and a ba...
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The Blue Terrance
2023-12-06by Terrance Hayes If you subtract the minor losses, you can return to your childhood too: the blackboard chalked with crosses, the math teacher's ...
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From "Spirit Cabinet"
2023-12-06by David Wojahn how, o spirits, shall I invoke you, who cannot count himself among the chosen? My writings & keenings are interior & treated b...
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The Blue Stairs
2023-12-06by Barbara Guest There is no fear in taking the first step or the second or the third having a position between several Popes In fact the top can be r...