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Dishwater
2023-12-06by Ted KooserSlap of the screen door, flat knockof my grandmother's boxy black shoeson the wooden stoop, the hush and sweepof her knob-kneed, cott...
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What He Thought
2023-12-06by Heather McHugh We were supposed to do a job in Italy and, full of our feeling for ourselves (our sense of being Poets from America) we went from Ro...
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Directory of Obsolete Securities
2023-12-06by Michael Teig I could stay here humming and amuse myself with the window. The lowing cows you cannot see. Another month I made up. Another asterisk....
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Dignity in the Home
2023-12-06by Betsy Brown All the chairs and the long brown couch just lay down on the floor in a line and the thin curtains joined them, sort of on the side or ...
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What Does E Stand For?
2023-12-06by E. Ethelbert Miller Everything Each eye exists embracing exceptional emerald evenings Evolution explains Eden's evil Earth's ecology equate...
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Difficult Body
2023-12-06by Mark Wunderlich A story: There was a cow in the road, struck by a semi—— half-moon of carcass and jutting legs, eyes already milky with...
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What Came to Me
2023-12-06by Jane Kenyon I took the last dusty piece of china out of the barrel. It was your gravy boat, with a hard, brown drop of gravy still on the porcelain...
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Die Muhle Brennt--Richard
2023-12-06by Richard Matthews (after a painting by Georg Bazelitz) When the red chair suspended in air grazes the top of your head and the white pitcher that re...
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Whales Weep Not!
2023-12-06by D.H. Lawrence They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent. All the whales in the wide...
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Did Not Come Back
2023-12-06by Lucie Brock-Broido In the roan hour between then & then again, the now, in the Babel Of a sorrel ship gone horizontal to a prow of night, the b...