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Odysseus to Telemachus
2023-12-06by Joseph Brodsky My dear Telemachus, The Trojan War is over now; I don't recall who won it. The Greeks, no doubt, for only they would leave so ma...
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Pied Beauty
2023-12-06by Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things—— For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple u...
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Pietà
2023-12-06by Steve Scafidi Before she is turned away for the last time in the moment before the new world begins harrowing her like a field and the sun and moon...
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Of Memory and Distance
2023-12-06by Russell Edson It‘s a scientific fact that anyone entering the distance will grow smaller. Eventually becoming so small he might only be found...
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Pigeons at Dawn
2023-12-06by Charles Simic Extraordinary efforts are being made To hide things from us, my friend. Some stay up into the wee hours To search their souls. Others...
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Of Politics, & Art
2023-12-06by Norman Dubie Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula The winter storm Off the Atlantic shook the schoolhouse. Mrs. Whitimore, dying Of tubercu...
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Pink Diapers
2023-12-06by Donna Brook During my Joe McCarthy childhood I was warned to "Never repeat what you hear in this house," but I didn't know which part...
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Pledge
2023-12-06by Elizabeth Powell Republic, your cool hands On my schoolgirl shoulders. Not sure what allegiances meant Until the vows were held by heart,By memory,...
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Of Seals, and Our Smiles
2023-12-06by Michael Benedikt The last time they did any harm to anyone was probably thousands of years ago;therefore we catch them and cut them up into coats, ...
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Po' Boy Blues
2023-12-06by Langston Hughes When I was home de Sunshine seemed like gold. When I was home de Sunshine seemed like gold. Since I come up North de Whole damn wor...