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Dream Song 29
2023-12-06by John BerrymanThere sat down, once, a thing on Henry's heartsó heavy, if he had a hundred years& more, & weeping, sleepless, in a...
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When a Woman Loves a Man
2023-12-06by David Lehman When she says margarita she means daiquiri. When she says quixotic she means mercurial. And when she says, "I'll never speak ...
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Dream of the Evil Servant
2023-12-06by Reetika Vazirani New Delhi, 1967 1. We kept war in the kitchen. A set of ten bone china plates, now eight. As if a perfumed guest stole her riches ...
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Wheatear
2023-12-06by Michael Longley Brown lark beside the sun Supervising Carrigskeewaun In late May, marsh marigolds And yellow flags, trout at the low Bridge hesitat...
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Dover Beach
2023-12-06by Matthew ArnoldThe sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits; on the French coast, the lightGleams and is gone; the c...
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What Will You Be?
2023-12-06by Dennis Lee They never stop asking me "What will you be?—— A doctor, a dancer, A diver at sea?" They never stop bugging me: &q...
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Dot
2023-12-06by Clayton Eshleman Unicellular sac pressed fingertips, two dots, a me row——or a herow? a meandering red moist blastospore, a multicellula...
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What Wild-Eyed Murderer
2023-12-06by Peter Meinke We shouldn‘t worship suffering: the world’s a spinning rack where suffering indicates all goes well we‘re alive and ...
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Dora Diller
2023-12-06by Jack Prelutsky "My stomach's full of butterflies!" lamented Dora Diller. Her mother sighed. "That's no surprise, you ate a c...
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What Was Told, That
2023-12-06by Jalalu'l-din Rumi (Translated by Coleman Barks) What was said to the rose that made it open was said to me here in my chest. What was told the ...