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For a Daughter Who Leaves
2023-12-06by Janice Mirikitani "More than gems in my comb box shaped by the God of the Sea, I prize you, my daughter. . ." Lady Otomo, 8th century, Ja...
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Untitled
2023-12-06by Marina Tsvetaeva Whence cometh such tender rapture? Those curls——they are not the first ones I've smoothened, and I've already ...
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Footfalls
2023-12-06by Sharon Creech Thump-thump, thump-thump bare feet hitting the grass as I run run run in the air and like the air weaving through the trees skimming ...
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by Jim Dodge Amalgam of electric jelly, constellated neural knots in the briny binary soup, as surely as stimulus prods response brains are made to ch...
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Fons
2023-12-06by Pura López-ColoméTranslated by Forrest Gander Reanimated, spirit restored, reincorporated, body restored, I contemplate between dream...
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Unity
2023-12-06by Pablo Neruda (Translated by Clayton Eshleman) There is something dense, united, settled in the depths, repeating its number, its identical sign. Ho...
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Fog
2023-12-06by Amy Clampitt A vagueness comes over everything, as though proving color and contour alike dispensable: the lighthouse extinct, the islands' spr...
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Unfinished Poem
2023-12-06by Shirley Kaufman We live on a holy mountain where the crows and the Crown Plaza rise higher than our expectations and the golden dome is only a rest...
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Flounder
2023-12-06by Natasha Trethewey Here, she said, put this on your head. She handed me a hat. you 'bout as white as your dad, and you gone stay like that. Aunt...
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Unday
2023-12-06by Fanny Howe From no nowhere not near the sea on blue field flax the cemetery's absolutely solitary you and you and a third of a pound of bread f...