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Portrait in Georgia
2023-12-06by Jean Toomer Hair——braided chestnut， coiled like a lyncher's rope， Eyes——fagots， Lips——old scars， or the fir...
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On a Door
2023-12-06by Jordan Davis With practice I could fold a rose Or a theory of prose or some treason But what is to be got a satire？ Expedience？ the opera of laught...
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Portrait of God on Work Release
2023-12-06by Peter Jay Shippy I walk in the park and select a maple leaf. With my Sharpie I write：YOU ARE HERE. Carefully， I place the leaf back where I found i...
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On a Line from Valéry (The Gulf War)
2023-12-06by Carolyn Kizer The whole green sky is dying. The last tree flares With a great burst of supernatural rose Under a canopy of poisonous airs. Could we...
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Portrait of Madame Monet on Her Deathbed
2023-12-06by Mary Rose O'Reilley Monet confided to his journal， "All the while she was dying， I could not stop painting her face." —Monet at...
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On a Night Like This
2023-12-06by Michael Teig When he couldn't sleep and his sight got going he noted the colors on the back of each painting； this one forest blue， that gunpow...
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On Becoming a Poet in the 1950s
2023-12-06by Stephen Beal There was love and there was trees. Either you could stay inside and probe your emotions or you could go outside and keenly observe na...
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Post-Modernism
2023-12-06by James Galvin A pinup of Rita Hayworth was taped To the bomb that fell on Hiroshima. The Avant-garde makes me weep with boredom. Hares are wishes， e...
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Postcard from Searsburg
2023-12-06by Wyn Cooper What was it you wanted he calls out the door as I walk toward his house， which tilts uphill. I just wanted to ask， I start to say &mdash...
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On Gifts For Grace
2023-12-06by Bernadette Mayer I saw a great teapot I wanted to get you this stupendous 100% cotton royal blue and black checked shirt， There was a red and black...