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Misconceptions of Childhood
2023-12-06by Celia Bland My father was a sidewise Jack, always in profile, a hand on his rod. His pack was a Destroyer, said my mother, where he played ping-pon...
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miss rosie
2023-12-06by Lucille Clifton when I watch you wrapped up like garbage sitting, surrounded by the smell of too old potato peels or when I watch you in your old m...
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Missing Is a Stimulant
2023-12-06by Jeff Clark a circuit, bled memory a séance of the veins, a liquid hinge Deceit, the tones of dreamed sceneries defaced by a single face and ...
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Mnemosyne
2023-12-06by Trumbull Stickney It's autumn in the country I remember How warm a wind blew here about the ways! And shadows on the hillside lay to slumber Du...
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Momentum
2023-12-06by Catherine Doty Your friends won't try to talk you out of the barrel, or your brag to go first, which has nothing to do with bravery. And you...
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Mongrel Death Blues
2023-12-06by Joshua Weiner What's that behind my back? What's that gnawing behind my back? It sounds like a dog crunching bones for marrow. Bones here s...
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Monologue for an Onion
2023-12-06by Suji Kwock Kim I don't mean to make you cry. I mean nothing, but this has not kept you From peeling away my body, layer by layer, The tears clo...
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Morning in the Burned House
2023-12-06by Margaret Atwood In the burned house I am eating breakfast. You understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast, yet here I am. The spoon which...
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Mortal Limit
2023-12-06by Robert Penn Warren I saw the hawk ride updraft in the sunset over Wyoming. It rose from coniferous darkness, past gray jags Of mercilessness, past ...
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Mosquito
2023-12-06by Myronn Hardy She visits me when the lights are out, when the sun is loving another part of the world. She passes through the net I sleep under like...