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Oblivion Speaks
2023-12-06by Sarah Manguso I am not here to ruin you. I am already in you. I am the work you don‘t do. I am what you understand best and wordless. I am wi...
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O'Connor at Andalusia
2023-12-06by Floyd Skloot It came with the steady pace of dusk, slow shadings in the distance, a sense of light growing soft at the center of her body. It came ...
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Patsy Sees a Ghost
2023-12-06by Lola Haskins I'm crossing the river where it narrows, carefully, it being Sunday and I'm past the root end of the log when I look up, and t...
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Patriotics
2023-12-06by David Baker Yesterday a little girl got slapped to death by her daddy, out of work, alcoholic, and estranged two towns down river. America, it'...
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O Little Root of a Dream
2023-12-06by Paul Celan (Translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov) O little root of a dream you hold me here undermined by blood, no longer visible to any...
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Passover
2023-12-06by Mary Rose O'Reilley "Art is what remains when the pot is broken."—Chinese proverb I know we are bound to the earth,and the crac...
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Ruin and Beauty
2023-12-06by Patricia Young It's so quiet now the children have decided to stop being born. We raise our cups in an empty room. In this light, the curtains ...
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Passing Through Albuquerque
2023-12-06by John Balaban At dusk, by the irrigation ditch gurgling past backyards near the highway,locusts raise a maze of calls in cottonwoods. A Spanish girl...
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Passerby, These are Words
2023-12-06by Yves Bonnefoy Translated by Hoyt Rogers Passerby, these are words. But instead of reading I want you to listen: to this frail Voice like that of le...
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Romance Sonambulo
2023-12-06by Federico García Lorca (Translated by William Logan) Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea and the...