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Parking Lot
2023-12-06by Stephen Sandy Hard to believe the racket geese make, squabbling,holding a confab in the dark——pitch dark to him padding back to check t...
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Rock and Hawk
2023-12-06by Robinson Jeffers Here is a symbol in which Many high tragic thoughts Watch their own eyes. This gray rock, standing tall On the headland, where the...
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Parowan Canyon
2023-12-06by David Lee When granite and sandstone begin to blur and flow, the eye rests on cool white aspen. Strange, their seeming transparency. How as in a su...
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Romance Sonambulo
2023-12-06by Federico García Lorca (Translated by William Logan) Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the...
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Passerby, These are Words
2023-12-06by Yves Bonnefoy Translated by Hoyt Rogers Passerby, these are words. But instead of reading I want you to listen: to this frail Voice like that of le...
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Passing Through Albuquerque
2023-12-06by John Balaban At dusk, by the irrigation ditch gurgling past backyards near the highway,locusts raise a maze of calls in cottonwoods. A Spanish girl...
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Ruin and Beauty
2023-12-06by Patricia Young It's so quiet now the children have decided to stop being born. We raise our cups in an empty room. In this light, the curtains ...
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Passover
2023-12-06by Mary Rose O'Reilley "Art is what remains when the pot is broken."—Chinese proverb I know we are bound to the earth,and the crac...
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O Little Root of a Dream
2023-12-06by Paul Celan (Translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov) O little root of a dream you hold me here undermined by blood, no longer visible to any...
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Patriotics
2023-12-06by David Baker Yesterday a little girl got slapped to death by her daddy, out of work, alcoholic, and estranged two towns down river. America, it'...