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Pythagorean Silence (an excerpt)
2023-12-06by Susan Howe 1. age of earth and us all chattering a sentence or character suddenly steps out to seek for truth fails falls into a stream of ink Sequ...
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On the Disadvantages of Central Heating
2023-12-06by Amy Clampitt cold nights on the farm， a sock-shod stove-warmed flatiron slid under the covers， mornings a damascene sealed bizarrerie of fernwork d...
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On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
2023-12-06by John Keats The poetry of earth is never dead： When all the birds are faint with the hot sun， And hide in cooling trees， a voice will run From hedge...
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On the Mississippi
2023-12-06by Hamlin Garland...
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2023-12-06by Maurya Simon Noon. I can connect nothing with nothing. Perhaps even chaos is cause for celebration. And perhaps the astrologers are right when they...
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On the Persistence of the Letter as a Form
2023-12-06by Paul Guest Dear murderous world， dear gawking heart， I never wrote back to you， not one word wrenched itself free of my fog-draped mind to dab in i...
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Naming
2023-12-06by Nancy Mairs Let me tell you this once （I will not be able to say it again）： I have lost the meaning of words. Heavy， they ripped away from the soun...
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On the Skeleton of a Hound
2023-12-06by James Wright Nightfall， that saw the morning-glories float Tendril and string against the crumbling wall， Nurses him now， his skeleton for grief， H...
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Narrow Flame
2023-12-06by Linda Gregerson Dark still. Twelve degrees below freezing. Tremor along the elegant， injured right front leg of the gelding on the cross-ties. Knee...
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Naskeag
2023-12-06by Alfred Corn Once a day the rocks， with little warning- not much looked for even by the spruce and fir ever at attention above- fetch up on these ti...