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Apostrophe
2023-12-06by Angie Estes How many in a field of wheat, and to whom do they belong? O death, O grave, Bright star, thou bleeding piece of earth, thou shouldst be...
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Aphorisms
2023-12-06by Antonio Porchia (Translated by W. S. Merwin) Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no...
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Apart (Les Séparés)
2023-12-06by Louis Simpson and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out. Summers in your absence are as dark as a room. I h...
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Another Attempt at Rescue
2023-12-06by M. L. Smoker And to think I had just paid a cousin twenty dollars to shovel the walk. He and two of his buddies, still smelling of an all-nighter, ...
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Anne Rutledge
2023-12-06by Edgar Lee Masters Out of me unworthy and unknown The vibrations of deathless music; "With malice toward none, with charity for all." Out ...
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Angel Saint
2023-12-06by Lilah Hegnauer If I could choose, if it was possible, if I was worthy, if babies homes weren‘t crowded if aunts and grandparents weren‘...
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Anecdotes
2023-12-06by Baron Wormser A moment from a life——a husband holding up A tee-shirt for cursory inspection; A child trudging home from a dull school d...
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Anecdote of the Jar
2023-12-06by Wallace Stevens I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill. The wilderness rose...
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And You Thought You Were the Only One
2023-12-06by Mark Bibbins Someone waits at my door. Because he is dead he has time but I have my secrets—— this is what separates us from the dead. ...
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And This Just In
2023-12-06by David Tucker Those footfalls on the stairs when the night shift went home, the sunlight fanning through the dinosaur's rib cage the janitor'...