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Erotic Energy
2023-12-06by Chase Twichell Don't tell me we're not like plants, sending out a shoot when we need to, or spikes, poisonous oils, or flowers. Come to me ...
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Working Late
2023-12-06by Louis Simpson A light is on in my father's study. "Still up?" he says, and we are silent, looking at the harbor lights, listening to ...
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Epithalamium
2023-12-06by Matthew Rohrer In the middle garden is the secret wedding, that hides always under the other one and under the shiny things of the other one. Under...
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Epitaph X
2023-12-06by Thomas Heise My birthright I have traded for a petal dress and a summer eulogy. I have pawned my soul for this opal ring, the color of a pale, taxi...
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Epitaph on a Tyrant
2023-12-06by W. H. Auden Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of h...
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Words and the Diminution of All Things
2023-12-06by Charles Wright The brief secrets are still here, and the light has come back. The word remember touches my hand, But I shake it off and watch the t...
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Epitaph
2023-12-06by Eric Pankey Beyond the traceries of the auroras, The fires of tattered sea foam, The ghost-terrain of submerged icebergs; Beyond a cinder dome'...
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Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband
2023-12-06by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Think not this paper comes with vain pretense To move your pity, or to mourn th' offense. Too well I know that hard o...
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Woodchucks
2023-12-06by Maxine Kumin Gassing the woodchucks didn't turn out right. The knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange was featured as merciful, quick a...
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Episode
2023-12-06by Irving Feldman Their quarrel sent them reeling from the house. Anything, just get on the road and get away. Driven out, they drove. . . miles into ...