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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 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 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 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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...