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Poem for Pancho Gonzales
2023-12-06by Leroy V. Quintana This was the world of white lines, a game unlike any other, where the object was to win, only you used words like "Please&qu...
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Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow
2023-12-06by Robert Duncan as if it were a scene made-up by the mind, that is not mine, but is a made place, that is mine, it is so near to the heart, an eterna...
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Oh, atlas
2023-12-06by Joshua Beckman Oh, atlas look you forgot my island....
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Ponies
2023-12-06by Spencer Reece I remember the ponies in the distance. I remember you talked of a war, no two wars, a failed marriage——discretely, withou...
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Old Coat
2023-12-06by Liam Rector Dressed in an old coat I lumber Down a street in the East Village, time itself Whistling up my ass and looking to punish me For all the...
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Old English riddle
2023-12-06by Anonymous My dress is silent when I tread the ground Or stay at home or stir upon the waters. Sometimes my trappings and the lofty air Raise me abo...
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Poppies
2023-12-06by Sandra McPherson Orange is the single-hearted color. I remember How I found them in a vein beside the railroad,A bumble-bee fumbling for a foothold...
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Olympia
2023-12-06by Henri Cole Tired, hungry, hot, I climbed the steep slope to town, a sultry, watery place, crawling with insects and birds. In the semidarkness of t...
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Porch Swing in September
2023-12-06by Ted Kooser The porch swing hangs fixed in a morning sun that bleaches its gray slats, its flowered cushion whose flowers have faded, like those of ...
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On 52nd Street
2023-12-06by Philip Levine Down sat Bud, raised his hands, the Deuces silenced, the lights lowered, and breath gathered for the coming storm. Then nothing, not ...