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Next Door
2023-12-06by Joan Selinger Sidney Oaks drag alongside the road, weighted by yesterday‘s snow. There‘s Frauka walking alone, the hood of her parka sn...
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Next Day
2023-12-06by Randall Jarrell Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All, I take a box And add it to my wild rice, my Cornish game hens. The slacked or shorted, b...
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New York Notes
2023-12-06by Harvey Shapiro 1. Caught on a side street in heavy traffic, I said to the cabbie, I should have walked. He replied, I should have been a doctor. 2....
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One of the Monkeys
2023-12-06by Nicholas Johnson I'm one of the monkeys they've got typing in a room full of monkeys. It's a play Shakespeare wrote back in the old day...
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Nearing Autobiography
2023-12-06by Pattiann Rogers Those are my bones rifted and curled, knees to chin, among the rocks on the beach, my hands splayed beneath my skull in the mud. Th...
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One of the Lives
2023-12-06by W. S. Merwin If I had not met the red-haired boy whose father had broken a leg parachuting into Provence to join the resistance in the final stage ...
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Navigating in the Dark
2023-12-06by Erik Campbell Papua, Indonesia In this mining town in Papua the electricity Has a habit of giving up at night, and this Is a miracle of modern stas...
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One Flower
2023-12-06by Jack Kerouac One flower on the cliffside Nodding at the canyon...
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Natural Causes
2023-12-06by Mark Cox Because my son saw the round hay bales—— 1200 pounds apiece, shrink-wrapped in white plastic—— lining the fields, ...
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One First Try and then Another
2023-12-06by Brian Blanchfield Careful, a night set on edge the European tradition of virtuoso and the raw desire to articulate. I pushed them both backward on ...