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At the Fishhouses
2023-12-06by Elizabeth Bishop Although it is a cold evening, down by one of the fishhouses an old man sits netting, his net, in the gloaming almost invisible, a...
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Alexander Throckmorton
2023-12-06by Edgar Lee Masters In youth my wings were strong and tireless, But I did not know the mountains. In age I knew the mountains But my weary wings coul...
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At sunrise I arose…
2023-12-06by Michel Deguy At sunrise I arose To the sound the machine animals make passing by in the streets over heads Was it briefly interminable or intermina...
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Affirmation
2023-12-06by Donald Hall To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a...
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At Pegasus
2023-12-06by Terrance HayesThey are like those crazy womenwho tore Orpheuswhen he refused to sing,these men grindingin the strobe & black lightsof Pegasus. ...
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After a Death
2023-12-06by Tomas Transtromer (Translated by Robert Bly) Once there was a shock that left behind a long, shimmering comet tail. It keeps us inside. It makes th...
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At Melville's Tomb
2023-12-06by Hart Crane Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge The dice of drowned men's bones he saw bequeath An embassy. Their numbers as he watched...
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After Callimachus
2023-12-06by Stephen Burt Cover me quietly, stone. I wrote verse. I meant little in life, blamed few and injured none; I tried to get along. My writings kept me...
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At Deep Midnight
2023-12-06by Minnie Bruce Pratt It's at dinnertime the stories come, abruptly, as they sit down to food predictable as ritual. Pink lady peas, tomatoes red ...
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by Charles Wright East of me, west of me, full summer. How deeper than elsewhere the dusk is in your own yard. Birds fly back and forth across the law...