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Fletcher McGee
2023-12-06by Edgar Lee Masters She took my strength by minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon That saps the spinning world. The ...
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Uncertain Grace
2023-12-06by Rebecca Wee How can she be beautiful? Eyes, ribs, the slope and angle of bone. The flesh itself is finished, so close it's come to the end of h...
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Fishing on the Susquehanna in July
2023-12-06by Billy Collins I have never been fishing on the Susquehanna or on any river for that matter to be perfectly honest. Not in July or any month have I ...
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Fishing in Winter
2023-12-06by Ralph Burns A man staring at a small lake sees His father cast light line out over The willows. He's forgotten his Father has been dead for two...
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Unbehold
2023-12-06by Bruce Beasley Lord Nelson's hand, blasted off by musket-fire at Tenerife, stayed clutched into a fist in the gap below his stump, the unbeholda...
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Fisherman
2023-12-06by Kurt Brown A man spends his whole life fishing in himself for something grand. It's like some lost lunker, big enough to break all records. But...
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Unappreciated Butterfly
2023-12-06by Michael Burkard I think I was on a balcony overlooking the whole thing. ——Yusef Komunyakaa "April Fool's Day" No soon, no...
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First Things to Hand
2023-12-06by Robert Pinsky In the skull kept on the desk. In the spider-pod in the dust. Or nowhere. In milkmaids, in loaves, Or nowhere. And if Socrates leaves...
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Ulysses
2023-12-06by Lord Alfred Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Matched with an aged wife, I mete and dol...
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First Probe
2023-12-06by Barry Ballard When the earth is tempered, compressed and cooled in the heavens like something somber and inanimate, I wonder if we'll be photog...