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Down Unwin's Track
2023-12-05Down Unwin's TrackAlison BrackenburyAnd the rain stopped. And the sky spunpast the hills' flush of winter corn.The mare strode out as though s...
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What I Wanted
2023-12-05What I WantedTracey Herdwas such a plump, bountifullandscape of snow, morethan I'd ever dared wish for.That was back when we hadproper winters, lo...
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Painted Turtle
2023-12-05Painted TurtleGretchen MarquetteSummer road the ring around the lake, we drove mostly in silence.Why aren't I your wife?You swerved around a turtl...
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Paris
2023-12-05ParisJürgen BeckerDays in gray Maraiswith terror between the gorgeswe parted ways wordlessly in the eveninga good poet helped meuntil we found ea...
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Canticle for Native Brook Trout
2023-12-05Canticle for Native Brook TroutTodd Davis Now we are all sitting here strangely On top of the sunlight. ...
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Fringe Tree
2023-12-05Fringe TreeJames Davis May -- Or Old Man's Beard.That the names we give recall the thingis what we want. And yet, both names are boringwhen ...
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Prologue to a Text
2023-12-05Prologue to a TextClare RossiniWe humans once lived in the moment,The moment being all there was. Stuffing our mouthsWith berries, we collapsed on the...
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Variations to the Accompaniment of a Cloud
2023-12-05Variations to the Accompaniment of a CloudW. S. Merwin Because I do not hope ever againto pass this way I sing thesenotes now in silenceeach in ...
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A Final Ease
2023-12-05A Final EaseBarry SpacksAfter the vaunting reach for gold,feeling no need for a curtain-call,I'd leave the stage with ardor cooledas Sisyphus, at ...
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Flight
2023-12-05FlightChristian Wiman -- after Anna AkhmatovaIn the end we love the line love cannot cross.In the end we fall for what we fail.Forget fri...