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Vodka
2023-12-06by Joel Brouwer The Stoli bottle's frost melts to brilliance where I press my fingers. Evidence. Proof I'm here, drunk in your lamplit kitchen...
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Fellow Creatures
2023-12-06by Bruce Bennett I pat the horses‘ heads as I walk by. They‘re gentle beasts, and friendly; they don’t mind. The gesture heartens me...
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Visits to St. Elizabeths
2023-12-06by Elizabeth Bishop This is the house of Bedlam. This is the man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is the time of the tragic man that lies in the...
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February: Thinking of Flowers
2023-12-06by Jane Kenyon Now wind torments the field, turning the white surface back on itself, back and back on itself, like an animal licking a wound. Nothing...
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February: The Boy Breughel
2023-12-06by Norman Dubie The birches stand in their beggar's row: Each poor tree Has had its wrists nearly Torn from the clear sleeves of bone, These icy t...
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Visiting Pai-an Pavilion
2023-12-06by Hsieh Ling-yun (Translated by Sam Hamill) Beside this dike, I shake off the world's dust, enjoying walks alone near my brushwood house. A small...
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Fears
2023-12-06by Felipe Benitez Reyes By Gonzalo De Lerma The sensation of being the only guest in a grand hotel on the outskirts of the city —and hearing the...
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Virginia Evening
2023-12-06by Michael Pettit Just past dusk I passed Christiansburg, cluster of lights sharpening as the violet backdrop of the Blue Ridge darkened. Not stars bu...
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Fear
2023-12-06by Ciaran Carson I fear the vast dimensions of eternity. I fear the gap between the platform and the train. I fear the onset of a murderous campaign. ...
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Village of Pulleys and Locomotion
2023-12-06by Rachel Galvin I trail my suitcase along the platform, the weight of the air‘s mechanism at the small of my back. In the old country a man wou...