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Water Picture
2023-12-06by May Swenson In the pond in the park all things are doubled: Long buildings hang and wriggle gently. Chimneys are bent legs bouncing on clouds below...
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Death Fugue
2023-12-06by Paul Celan Translated by Jerome Rothenberg Black milk of morning we drink you at dusktime we drink you at noontime and dawntime we drink you at nig...
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Water Music
2023-12-06by Robert Creeley The words are a beautiful music. The words bounce like in water. Water music, loud in the clearing off the boats, birds, leaves. The...
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Dearest Reader
2023-12-06by Michael Palmer He painted the mountain over and over again from his place in the cave, agape at the light, its absence, the mantled skull with blue...
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War Photograph
2023-12-06by Kate Daniels A naked child is running along the path toward us, her arms stretched out, her mouth open, the world turned to trash behind her. She i...
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Dear Miss Emily
2023-12-06by James Galvin I knew the end would be gone before I got there. After all, all rainbows lie for a living. And as you have insisted, repeatedly, The d...
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Wanting to Die
2023-12-06by Anne Sexton Since you ask, most days I cannot remember. I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage. Then the almost unnameable lust returns. Ev...
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Dear George Bush
2023-12-06I am writing this letter just to inform you that the tide is turning. It is a fickle tide, one that has the presence of mind to alter its course. You ...
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Wallace Stevens
2023-12-06by Honor Moore The great poet came to me in a dream, walking toward me in a house drenched with August light. It was late afternoon and he was old, pa...
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Dead Man, Thinking
2023-12-06i. Snow geese in the light of morning sky, exactly at the start of spring. I was looking through the cracks of the blinds at my future which seemed ab...