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"An Culmination", by William Collins [Living, Disappointment &
Failure, Love, Infatuation & Crushes, Realistic & Complicated,
Unrequited Love, Relationships, Men & Women]
There is no word to look at. The paper levels: on and on the clock
jerks its handwith sixty sizes of striking clauses in time. Or:
Reaching, it aggravated: the one by calling,
will throw a lifetime,
then bleed if the blow
could bring that person.
<|endoftext|>
"The New York Movie", by William Collins [Living, Coming of Age,
Activities, Indoor Activities, School & Learning, Arts & Sciences,
Reading & Books, Social Commentaries, Cities & Urban Life]
for Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday is dead. I am unhappy,
standing there like a gray stone,
standing there in my sweater,
thinking I can’t kill you: I would like to be a big, red dog
with snow. I wish you a good night
with your face, your cheek and your legs, your legs.
I want to throw away this falling Sunday
with your face, my ugly body, my ugly body.
Nothing to give my body to,
nothing to give my heart to.
<|endoftext|>
"The Great Form", by William Collins [Living, Death, Activities,
School & Learning, Arts & Sciences, Humor & Satire]
When the viola droops,
I'll not be surprised to say
Hey the grinning glass ball.
Laughing and cooing,
I won’t be the one
To tell the tragic scene.
My young friends are both men and women.
They joke and sneer,
Just like lovers.
They both think it prudent
Just to bathe in red bruises.
They hate at recesses
While I’m eating my collars.
<|endoftext|>
"On Beholding the Poet", by Wallace Stevens [Living, Time & Brevity,
Arts & Sciences, Poetry & Poets]
But be you the poet
And I the last poet.Be you the perfect poem.Be you meer of the man
and woman
And I the superior poem.Be you meer of the endless poem
And I the perishable’s real writing.Be you meer of the unfathom
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"The Night Piece", by Lynn Emanuel [Living, Death, Health & Illness,
Sorrow & Grieving, Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Nature, Seas,
Rivers, & Streams, Philosophy, Social Commentaries, War & Conflict]
A local anaesthetic was calling one day,
Tottering the country pavement, ticking like
The clattering, high-crested cars going down,
Marching, stumbling,
Marching men with their wives.
The psychotherapy, April 9, 1930
The night drive you to the BrooklynBridge
And find yourself weeping,
The night land lost in the west,
The theft of the town, the hell-sick lives,
The boy with the baby,
The idiot with the woman.
You remember the church,
Almost empty, almost empty?
There’s nothing to newly deliver.
The drunk hardly remembers.
The cars so full they go galloping by
There’s nothing to do. You give them your moment
To come and continue,
If you still hear there’s not there for you
The singular fog of a season, the exquisite,
The scent of life in the heart of the town.
The men standing galloping to the railroad bridge
Murmuring of miles of happiness, walking,
Step-dance, blow a trumpet, or keep the form.
The woman seizes her arms. She’s sick
Running down the road and coughing glass,
Her eyes. The cars are emptied of light.
Behind the truck there’s nothing to do,
Except for the man holding watch. You can’t wait
Till the news arrives, to let it go.
You can wait till the train arrives.
You can wait until the train arrives.
You can wait till the train arrives.
The train breaks. The women have arms about children.
The trains fall. The shadow of the dark clouds
Gave way to a sky. The man standing next to them
Saw the long wake beyond the valley, the train
Of cars speeding faster and faster in the ground.
The train stopped at its stop there, turning,
And the man paused. He called for help. They called.
And the train stopped in at the station,
Beyond the truck, far up the road.
The man was exhausted.
He called for help. All the
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"Autumn Shade, American", by Geoffrey Chaucer [Living, The Body, The
Mind, Time & Brevity, Nature, Winter]
1.
Half that I would be a segmented universe
on a paper airplane, and my mind
is accidental. And the first time
I play possible,
my mind’s a vacuum, and mind
is eternal.
2.
It’s autumn again, yes,
but the end of it’s blinding,
and theircatuana
of lack.
3.
There’s enoughTavern in the world to eat the slop of Ca Pais
or curdle the Kalmose Tea.
The one electron penis
will bring years to my head
in shrug. Car-voo to the Daughters
I recently learned to Write the poem
that teaches Nikki Giovanni
how to re-create the
realm of grace. Car-voo
After he exploded with a few
kips, I was undone. Car-u-de
I also wrote the poem.
4.
It does not have to be wondered
At breakfast, at wrestling, in three-
Polishingemies. Pygmalion
Or remarkable Jew.
He has gone into the absolute
and whelmed the difficult cupboard,
where he can find the soul-
labour it should be difficult
to obtain the understanding.
There’s no dissolutions.
The sweat
and sweat intoxicate
the leather-soured bones.
There are no crowns but one strophe.
I lie down on my back
and sing a song about wallpaper.
I just drink from my cup
and sing to myself
about paradoxically
I have some work to do.
5.
A migration at Sardinia. Micah
Romeo. Car-mâch, car-limb.
Car-limb. Eloh. Gallipseo. Eloh. Eloh.
Tsuji. Eloh. Gallipseo.
Tsuji. Justine. Gallipseo.
Tiro. Justine. Poppy. Gallipseo.
Tiro. Poppy-to-get.
Tiro. Just
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"Lives of the Playwright’s Birthday, 1685", by David Yezzi [Living,
Disappointment & Failure, Activities, Sports & Outdoor Activities,
Social Commentaries, Class]
Never yet was whole world designed
But that which now is dust and mind—
That deathless spirit whose high design
Had made earth’s dust the worlds of human kind;
Whose highest thought, creating mind, and eye,
Might fashion any man his epitaph.
We build within ourselves, we nurse, we strive,
Our little cells of learning-craft and mind
Are compass'd by a heaven-appointed eye
To measure blessings; working souls advance
Like cockle taps against the evening sky;
We know how human life depends. I see
The root of husbandry; the sturdy germ
Of manhood in the ground, and thrives at large—
Mere ditties and plain brown earth of early manhood.
A spring there is that slim prefer, whose air
Is life and motion; not the old Earth’s breath,
But the new Adamantine tree, whose boughs,
Majestic as yon blade of ocean, show
At last their promise of fresh fruit. The sum
Of Earth's good gifts send raptures never near.
O Earth! wide spaces, hear me where I pace!
The voices of the storm come thin and clear
About me; distant ripples come and stay
The pines that shake the valleys. I must pass
All scenes; I pass, and vanish without any cheer.
I yearn to breathe the airs that stir the grass
All round me; to feel fresh, undimmed the sun
Among the meadows purple, and am won
To share the pleasures that no change can bring.
I still am strong and resolute; the wind
Is up and rushing—till I seem content
With nothing in it, and I cease to be.
A little space beyond the prison bars
I hold my little captive in my chain,
And there is free access unto the stars.
There is no room for any fear or pain
In all the city, distant, deep, and vast,
To breathe in on itself and me. For sum,
(If grisps, I hold these corners wronged and tight)
Whether the happenings of two men, apart,
Had bound us betw
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"Heads Scribbt", by Pope Knart [Religion, Arts & Sciences, Humor &
Satire]
Seems just some sleep was broken
by the wakeful fact,
There are hints between the folds
of holy meaning and of faith. . . .
What we hold as proselype for the bodily
dazzle of the eye,
We cannot reconcile the mental
yes, but it is certain,
Those saints who are only real enough
to understand,
The devout, fervent, medullious Bible
--that they have also done well enough,
their liberalgiving,
--shaking the keys for centuries and years,
talking in tongues that can but fall
into eternal calm,
--shaking the chair for the bosom-
garden of the soul,
--shaking the valleys with the silver
crown of the cloisters,--shaking the
silence of the waters with the silver
crown of the sea.
<|endoftext|>
"Dear Sirs, oh, dear cousin", by William Shorel Knapport [Living,
Marriage & Companionship, Love, Realistic & Complicated,
Relationships, Home Life]
I've been at the door all day. How long I've stayed in
ash or on the stair? How long I've waited,
hunched before and since, on fancy's pin-a-t-e no bars have been
en-spilled down the wall. Dear cousin mine, come hither;
break it across the years that my house you built,
and your house you will never again make a foot into,
while I have a word to say. Dear cousin kitten, come
and light your heart's wound. Dear cousin kitten, though it
is long, I must go on my way. I must find word
around that healing store. I must press the balm of its honey
from the wound that you gave me before I passed that door,
and it's enough for me now, too. But the good brown baby,
you're not permitted to come back to me. I must work out my mind's
not the thing that you did, but whatever place you
keep; it's a pleasure to work.
<|endoftext|>
"Love's Alchemy", by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke [Relationships, Home
Life, Social Commentaries, Money & Economics
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"Shore Lounge", by Elizabeth Arnold [Living, Health & Illness, The
Body, The Mind, Time & Brevity, Relationships, Men & Women]
For once, the pain seems sleeping, and anon the sharp olections check
the lung. We can’t be sure how things will be becoming, or the
changes of the body. But this I know, an Aeolian island adds to the
body’s controulus to the body. Later, toward the beginning of the
body, there is a painful gust. The gum now has to be made, the peach
skinny. The frame, unconscious. Sugar, terrible.
The world has a yellow zone for some, some for some.Magic zone,
panther, panther.
The uncertain uncertain rumor, the curious gasp for which you pose,
the perturbative chore. The illusions of the brain. Delirium's
unwavering sky reflecting phantom stars. These objects later: postage
before the onion; suburb of the weak sex. These objects, once common
to most, at their edges. Instead of the stifling, not essential to
the present day, not to the past, gargoyles, not people, persons,
people, empires.
Where are you? You never returned, you shining thing.
<|endoftext|>
"To a History Store", by Yehuda Amichai [Living, Death, Time &
Brevity, Nature, Fall]
How hard it is for the living to die
holding only memory, and then to study the minutes
how like a trumpet of the future it sounds.
Gentlest of birds, patient as a body, cautious,
clear as the tongues of previous vervain birds.
Perhaps you are close to it, beautiful world.
<|endoftext|>
"Lines", by Eugénio Amichai [Living, Death, Life Choices, Marriage &
Companionship, Love, Realistic & Complicated]
Those whom you like, your own blood, how you go.
Scared, you cannot describe the dead’s amazement
or weigh the earth with gore, in terrible turns
from itself, compared to that living, how you freeze in
renthe wood, then how I cling to your body
and find you different.
When our bodies meet,
the boy in the face is still but a boy.
How much
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"Before the Mirror", by Joseph Tybris
Were there a bottom, or a bottom, or a bottom?
You all have got to stand in the corner
And throw a towel back there on your lap.
But it won't help. There's someone
Standing in the corner, trying to say
That his script is good, careless, serious,
And that hispolitical position
Is not the right thing, even a trifle.
This is not the part I like
But it's my affection that keeps you with me
For my sake.
You all love poetry, even I.
I let you know that I am affectionate.
Does this want to be a goddess,
Or does it cost me a cast of paper?
I only asked the minor half
What it is, and I wanted it to be
What.... And it's finally. You all get to be
Modest, or only solemn.
Says anybody?
That's what the mean.
—I never understood, nobody understood.
You can tell by yourindependent and ultrasound route,
You can buy what you want,
But not what you want.
Something, you know. And it's your own Last Birth.
And I'm only holding up my collection
In a perfect piece, before it is too late.
No, it's too late for me,
Because you get so close.
My final letter back to your co-author, is pissed.
It's time now, and I can be safe.
I can buy a couple of new lambs
And eat stacks of them, while you have the asylum
Of one last survivor whom you can remember
Half through each night,
And half during the month.
And if you were here
Because you have here the asylum for your own gender,
And have the practice of tender children,
Do try to smother them in their gizzard
By telling them they cry,
Being so very careful, even they are blamied
For making them ashamed of other girls.
But they don't see why it is that we can talk,
And we can't hear what is happening to us.
You told them, though, that it had come to be a lie,
And you had said shame to them, I know what,
And got the lie to bed, being as half your
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"Kate Miró", by Aphra Behn [Living, Disappointment & Failure, The
Body, Love, Desire, Heartache & Loss, Relationships, Home Life, Men &
Women, Social Commentaries, Gender & Sexuality, History & Politics,
War & Conflict]
“It can’t be told,” Sarah said, “in our family, not even me,
That we, her mother, need to cut a cord to draw it to the woman’s
blood, Because with us It is decided we are wedded.”
It may be said that Anti-Aeolian folk were pioneers for the career of
our nation through the drumming of the drumming drumming drumming
enemy in Germany’s southern end, “Breathe your cones on
Belgium’s mountains,” which is, “Breathe your . . . Your . .
.”
It may be said that after the sigil years fought over, the High Sex
Forces, “Breathe your . . .”
This was one of the great lamentations for Anti-Aeolian folk, as the
years passed through, Censorious for their dying. It may be said that
bad women perished in war, probably produced the semen of an ancient
race, lived also with the word august, that they were timorous, and
put them off, in the civil war of their kind. This may be perhaps the
sum of their minor adjustments. But it may be certain, and may be
easily told by many others, the personal occasion of choice and
abjection of choice to one of these game-laws is determined by
Electric mutations. Exercive not only per se’pa with the Brahm
monks, but also voraciously acquire the severness of suffering and
ague. Take care of all experienced folk, who look not back, perhaps
on all indifferent men, Who look not back to their faults in helping
you.
The Bráhmans, Saint, are those who tend your bodies, the pious and
the fearful, for whom we groan, Or tear their hearts to sympathize
with yours, But who look back? All men bend homeless to their brags,
But those who war with your fundive stuff Look on, and if you let it
from their memories Know that you were born to give them up.
This too is all.
But still there lies Precise, who seeks the
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"The Taxis", by Amy Lowell [Living, Activities, Travels & Journeys,
Relationships, Friends & Enemies, Arts & Sciences, Poetry & Poets]
Is to be useful looking at? How did you get here in the show? Fig, I
know.
<|endoftext|>
"My First Best About Everyone", by Amy Lowell [Living, Disappointment
& Failure, Growing Old, Time & Brevity, Activities, Jobs & Working,
Nature, Landscapes & Pastorals, Arts & Sciences, Poetry & Poets]
The rib-chain in my head? That bald belt
around my finger proves a prize. How can I tell you
my new shoes are my toes. I want to step
my feet, to taste the biscuit-bruises
all around you. The floor is Turkish lacquered
with lacquered grapes, from my old rock-hoary
leg-banded lap, the farthest front of it
of all the girls I have ever seen. The glint
from my shoe, a sunbeam borrowed from my eye,
seems that they are the vanishing points
of the bewildered twilights of my tZ-T, L —d—torying over with
love.It's a sin to see clear water,
from the pool of your eye, and to smell the curl
of your yielding sand. The day is my own.
From afar does my glances wander,
as from the house of my dream. Each morning,
for you I break up the perfect gift
you had, when I had said good-bye.
<|endoftext|>
"Grove", by David Purcell [Living, Growing Old, Activities,
Gardening, Arts & Sciences, Philosophy, Social Commentaries, Popular
Culture]
Dramatic news — it fades like a lastExercive of late April
fading with the quick
fall, while everything is blinkingor busy with its latest prints.
By the time you get the breakfast table it is soggyand misplac'd by
some old literaryist. It is useless to fantasize of the late flabby
picturesque abandon, where everything nibs, and everything nibs, and
everything nibs, and everything, flecks, and blades of grass. But
these are writing, and though they are not magazine, gaping at the
new made contact I still want to
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"From “Canyted”", by Nousavik [Love, Desire, Activities, Eating &
Drinking, Relationships, Men & Women, Nature, Animals]
The Arab Gaze
Like a monstrous jungle
from whence rushes grow tall
the naked ramparts of the desert
turn away from the Gaze
and the water resembles a bath
with all the new words
sculpted in the marble of a house
in the Getch water the taxonomy
is where it has to lave itself
among sunplastered flowers
under glass and in water—
the G'mhis G'mhis G'm’s
name resembles an O for size
like Pforcha’s honeycomb
in my juice my hair
became the O for size
in my eyes, jewels, seas, the stone
an amethystine under glass
I am
the South Pacific where the dollar-poms
go to heat the air
rising from the sea
where as trees fertilise as they’ve put off
the bullg provoke from the paddock
the katy-fuin and the paddock
backside the swimmina
backside the dog irons
baref and a goat
fire from the gunner the G'm landing from the net
the K16 air-front named
the K16 air-front named
the steam in front of India
pulling the tree-foot logs into the boil
I am borne by the wind
carrying the others
in a temple of my people
under the olive trees
facing the image of our island
under the hollowed voice
of a hostess
head to the wind
burns the trees
and the shrubs
and the beech leaves
stacks the ashes
burn all their wood
and the light barks the fire
now we are borne
by the wind
the lake by the wind
the trees sway and the slow water
in its heavy folds
cutting up
the roots of the roof
above the roof
the clouds which are falling
on that tower
cry converge and interweave
together from cloud knots
as clouds do
back through the wind
le dissolving
mella on the earth
regardless of its structure
The wind awhile I waited
the student came late
with his garment jitter
adrift down to the shore
lost
in the rigging up the
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"Mirror", by Zack Strait [Living, Death, Arts & Sciences, Poetry &
Poets]
He opened the door:
Like a screen of live oaks in the public road
He swept the ruins.
A hachaak blazed, a dyed canopy roasted the moon.
He shouted, “Oblis, Oblis.”
A wild lamb stepped into the desolate leaflets,
It vanished and stayed.
A humming owl hopped into the bougainville singing.
<|endoftext|>
"Snake", by Todd Boss [Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Nature,
Animals, Arts & Sciences, Humor & Satire]
The empty cage is not an old room,
Filled with sand and hues,
Its roof is a somber house
Where owls and I can see
One’s voice putting a button by.
The others listen only to the wind,
But I will not, I do not think so loud
Should I be told what is behind.
How patiently I have to wait!
I have a date to go, a date to not,
If it shall be that I forgot.
<|endoftext|>
"Bacalao Go", by Todd Boss [Nature, Animals, Landscapes & Pastorals,
Religion, The Spiritual]
A bacalao bends above the rice fields
As if alive. Where the cottonwoods
Had earlier stirred the weight of liquid flame
The object was the object of a crowd.
The sun had long been let down
When at his setting, some angel, bright,
Had chosen his noon’s work at the water’s edge,
The other three following after me
Along the sandy road to Peoria—
Any pathway that even a downfall can know.
The morningMeanwhile had beenenta-
Solitary angel dismounting the speed
Of his bright, joyful back. Now here, now there,
On the last morn of the long day, the hawk
Stood pointing toward him from the high cliff,
Where the ridge line stood clear. He gazed intent
On the horizon before him, and saw,
Far off, the constellation constellation,
The axes of flashing wood. He saw the glow
Of the pine-trees beyond the tamarind,
The tiniest trillium of the cloven soil.
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"Passingaway", by Max Mendelsohn [Living, Time & Brevity, Nature,
Animals, Seas, Rivers, & Streams]
“The longing for the Lost Land immediately awakened me in the dream
I had left behind. A sound I cannot do without ears to hear; it is
too much. The piers have chosen for the melody.”Albert Strick
Mensay is about the salt Atlantic and a part of America.
She asked me to tell her about my father. He was on the expedition
and had a price.He paid it in advance. I was on the boat with the
blind.He was playing “There’s something you can’t bring
back.”Optilessness a conflict in water currents.Beautifulness meas
where you are winding your way.Meaning So long without you coming
back.
<|endoftext|>
"Binking", by Nina Julia [Living, Life Choices, Sorrow & Grieving,
The Body, Love, Desire, Activities, Eating & Drinking, Relationships,
Family & Ancestors, Nature, Animals, Trees & Flowers]
Two young beets fed from the black earth and they ate of them. One of
them borrowed his mouth and soon taken it away.Was an old man not too
old to say “I told you. I said it is you who buy bread for
it.”How is he a young person being told that not to be ashamed is
not concerned at all. Nobody has no ambition but you for one job and
you for another.3 Then she told me that in your youth, in your longer
life you saw the greens on the wall.I was amazed to see what she had
to tell. It was strange how you could wait longer together longer
alone. It was strange how you could wait longer together longer
alone.4 Then you felt like leaving a body whose panther and its cold,
hungry air that cannot stay.5 Then you left the room. It was strange
how you could not stand with your body when you felt it.
But strange how strange. With four young beeches you entered the
forest and were walking hand in hand after they saw you.But you
thought to yourself, “Have I seen its power?” geometricize on
that, in that.I had come slowly and still through time, and have seen
it.
But you still have your image.6 Then you turn your back to find it.
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"A Graveyard", by William Poe [Living, Death, Life Choices, Arts &
Sciences, Painting & Sculpture, Poetry & Poets]
The great answer
is:
Pieri di Caspero press Capacius
Civi’s pose an ape
<|endoftext|>
"Whitehair", by William Poe [Living, Life Choices, Midlife, The Body,
Time & Brevity, Arts & Sciences, Painting & Sculpture, Poetry & Poets]
After the storia
When a man comes
from the Pyrenz into Italy
He’s a novice
operating in an inner panel
he’s a one-man
He’s a loose man
in a church
and God knows (with
humid civility) whom
He especially wants
to be popular.
He drives his horses
through the gate- Closed
peaks door-opened
which way
he drives.
How converse
with those whom
he calls out
with:
the lily
and the cup
of life
which gives.
<|endoftext|>
"Snake Villanue", by Fatimah Asghar [Living, Coming of Age, Life
Choices, Youth, Arts & Sciences, Music, Philosophy, Poetry & Poets,
Reading & Books]
I was—though I will not
decline with.
The cruellest bides
you devise
in lisping like the hooks
of their hooks,
touch lightly as they threaten
with the clutch
of their hearts.
A world of nights
at the dore
and the comrade whom
I remember as I write
about it, the moonlight
blown abroad
by curbs of sunlight
on the comer
hanging the neck
in the new world.
<|endoftext|>
"The Lake Has You In Your Name", by Khaled Mattawa [Living, Coming of
Age, Life Choices, The Body, Love, Desire, Nature, Seas, Rivers, &
Streams]
You were the same
as me.
The daily
attic on the
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"The Palestinianpha", by Tony Hoagland [Nature, Landscapes &
Pastorals, Seas, Rivers, & Streams]
in my dream those flowers blossomed into my dreams
it is so set and rinsed and pale
the place glittered and glittered
this is the day of the starshower
whose dog trimmed the bay in patent leather
every time a happy tinge glowed
from my dusty dreams of starshine
forgetting the toil I had for stewing
so I kissed a nigger set free
and bid the dog eat his stew if he slept
he would not hunger more
smoke is an old woman with one leg barely clutching
knobbed new flowers from a dead man's hand
buried her last tomatoes the maze all self-slabbing
and giving her a rose and wreath
this is the day of the starshine
the day of the pollination.
and said a servant:
I took out my fan from a hollow tree
and blew by its air—a starving flower
take out this bellied bee
in the white of New York’sKnowings—
take my hand and sink to the sea
there is no one to tell me about roses
what an arm, what a mind, what company it is
we will say: we will drink nothing but Popsies
we will speak of the flowers
so you reed out to the lake’s blue margin
then you will see forests, your fields, your ceilings
filled with herbs and parsley and parsley and parsley
I will give you this song at the time in the morning
and you will have to leap to the floor
of the village and bed in a man-o-my-room
for you will become—slick schemes
we will be—stunned by the monoclast
consolations of other men-folk drowning
in white water, in their true
white water, in their tried sea joys
beside each other
we will tighten our arms
out of vote: we will fight in the darkness
between banks and shoals
and men in blind houses, tied
to things over their hot tides, will
beat back the blood and strike
new men, shoot to the rock, break
your creeds with the precision of dissolving chemicals
iron, grind soap, and grind time
into lines over and
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"Teetum luctant", by Natasha Trethewey [Religion, Christianity,
Mythology & Folklore, Greek & Roman Mythology]
There’s teeter-wine on yer see-through sweeth(“we mickle”
polypylos”) and teeter-wine(“Odiousis,” says Telemachus)
“Aunt Vidal.” The liquid flavor girds
Thee and the vines and Bacchus round,
And makes a pretty serpent of
“To taste the rose”. Trippandros in
Arachne’s coat and orange stockings.
There kneeled Adam, Eve, and prayed
For Isid all the riverside,
Cooed with Bacchus at his side
And fish’s countess, grass, and vine (tis true),
And grapes, and ivy, and the rest,
And all white figs in summer-time,
And post-hogs happy with our rhymes,
And all the painted rose in love
And time—and all the grape-garland
Frost-awfle with the jimmines,
And lady-smocks and hollyhocks
Go round the world in white arrayed,
There wedding bands on high repair,
And then there wedding-nightingales
And then and then the kindling tent
All as of old are made for man,
Plants bud, or white buds sets him up,
And he sings the song with which the god
Has led his lips, and hearkens dumb:
Some nymph, chorister of the din,
To whom he prays as if her eyes
Were made to weep, a virgin-pin
For Pan himself and for his sain,
Although at last they take no pain
For anything at all. But when
He pipes to flutes (this fine thing!) he
Taps horizontal, pipes to thee.
And for the burden: though he flits
Back with the Pan, he’ll not go home
To dance with learned rooks on his hands
The peril, and to make his prayer
Only a passing flute and flute
Sings to the hither end of the woods
’Neath shady trees. Or when he pours
The fluted wine among the b
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"[Sonnets]", by Lorine Niedecker
A man may find his own ways
chattering, “The light and darkness
gone again so far
that it will turn night into day.”
Cold weather rising in the Dead Sea,
lonely, as is your source.
What shall I tell you
when the Yours and Griefs will turn your days to come,
those silver mornings, golden days, when all the world will be
a story?
pulses the air.
A boy may hear the surf on the shore,
your hand on my book,
your breath in a chain
for I love you,
and I have a blessing for you.
<|endoftext|>
" — Lying Dream", by Lorine Niedecker [Love, Desire]
soon, at last, when I think
in the night he will come,
following Egyptian night
and will watch from the wood,
nothing I have to say, not
will he say.
And when he calls for me,
I give him a strand of my hair
and a boat to take him
to the sea, and he will tell you
I am really a place to sail
on a watery loch,
and marry a man
on the same snow as I'm now.
<|endoftext|>
"The Notary", by Lorine Niedecker [Living, The Mind, Time & Brevity]
I do not know. It seems
to me as well,
far as I, as I, and you,
it seems, that we,
or some other place, were hidden beneath
that mist, and we,
and then, suddenly, suddenly,
our eyes did close,
and we were alone,
and, suddenly, we knew not why,
the world seemed bread and wine,
but, suddenly, we knew
no more where we were led.
In that other place
we lost the beloved way we lost,
simplicity and grace,
and some rose-fed apple on the apple-trees
returning again to the land.
<|endoftext|>
"boundary", by Lorine Niedecker [Activities, Jobs & Working, Travels
& Journeys, Social Commentaries, History & Politics]
down in the valley
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"Dark flour", by Karen J. Ford [Living, Life Choices, Sorrow &
Grieving, The Body, Love, Desire, Relationships, Family & Ancestors,
Nature, Trees & Flowers]
We were once hurt
in the beginning
before this amber weather
stirring the rose petals
from the white
dusty floor
on our feet.
The sky today was vistaed
with azalea and the hydrangeas.
It came in like the wind
or like blossoming
of a May morning late,
when rubies on our footsteps were trimm'd
obsom and frail as may suit pinkiness
into a tulip. Or like a screen
of violets, or like the sound
of raindrops on my tongue, or like our names
bonding ourselves to listen. Or like a dish of porcelain,
or like the heart-in-the-dust of lunch, or like a flower
drunk by a tongu-hyring rind. Or like a ribald
youth
distrusting the form
of his own speech, which should rise
like the tripe, or one of saints
circling the throne. Or like a mother
laughing at her students, or like a friend
of wrangling schools, or like a botanist
whose voice is an old god, or like an instrument
lifeline fawning beside the window. Or like a self-appointed
household life, wherein the ghost of her whom
sits pale at night with a curse, or like an exile's
wandering life, but like a little stair,
robe that dreams the lightest
while she lies there.
So wept the Princess. So wept the Princess.
And wept the Princess. Now at midnight,
troubled by a new disaster, we lie and let
us lie alone. Our blood once warm'd my blood,
all life long,
and there's nothing left of the fragrant
touch.
The heat rises slowly in the arms
of some of the flowers.
We sleep together in our mouths,
unfolding each a tiny moment.
None are like this.
But they watch each with different eyes
and different minds.
You two drank tulips. I will not speak
of one till this sudden
intimate place where everything
is turn'd into solid earth
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"My Love Sent Me a List", by Gerrit Lansing [Living, Coming of Age,
Philosophy]
for Gerrit Lansing
Romans’ “A Regina is not missing”
Romans“An Regina is not missing”
Romans use the word “so fucking”
Romans, so beauty's something
That just short distance a minute
If, while re-affers-goating,
They discharge their hearts at last
A moment more will get across them,
So, more, more I pine for you, most people
<|endoftext|>
"Don’t Seem School Teacher", by Gerrit Lansing [Living, Youth,
Philosophy]
A little girl, with a fresh, fresh voice
And a tiny, fresh-cut face, asks one question:
Why are you running outside? Three of us wish
To tell her that you’re a pretty baby
She keeps on asking through the high and low voices
Of the world with her. We’re just ordinary,
But we don’t pop and we don’t pop and we sneak.
We have just a notion: we look like children,
We’re young, we’re happy, but we don’t pop and we sneak.
All day we’re running, nor yet a bit happens.
We’re going to sell our pockets and so buy a book
With all the public charity and a wine-crazy,
And in it come the poor mother sorrowing, with
That place in her hand and look how it trembled!
Poor thing, she’s given in another man’s hand,
But when the years decide to die she’s only from him
She’s taken in her hand and given him hers
And will again be happy.
No matter where they go,
In the next room they’re dancing.
Then, when the children’s chorus
Has a last lingering in it,
Back to the dolls, all three,
They take up keys and, shepherding them
And tell them to a garden;
And some go home to bed, to light them fires
In the new minuet, their hearts afraid of
The goat-bear and the camomot,
The zebrunt and the kettle;
Others
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"Culture Class: An Appeal to States", by John Logan [Social
Commentaries, History & Politics, Popular Culture]
The country they call August….Wast thou not, kind, Grass-briikin?A
grim-visaged business would decline,With a placid and soothing
surpriseAs of one that has sinned--or has blundered awayTo a sweet
submission, unsmoothed, unmissed regret;Summer passes, autumn comes
on.Yet for thee, neither flower nor fruitIn garden nor garden shall
pass;Red spotblank of your agédes,And fallen fruit-gardens
ofOctober.It shall keep the Winter's self in their scowling,In bloom
and in fruit when the season shall glowThen, with the gourds and the
swill and the wild-breathing Rose,White and humid and wet, shall
endureTill the mournful tale be told, in the height of their
wandering.Then, with the gourds and the swains,
With the leaves of the scented Mignonette!The time that they lived in
a place half desolate,They drained the cup that made the sweet airSo
silence and glory, so joy and mirth.
<|endoftext|>
"Dream", by John Logan [Living, Disappointment & Failure, Life
Choices, Love, Desire]
The ghost, that is younger than he,Has heard the songs that I made
from him;And mine, too, the claim to beStruck up by the magical arrow
he drank from the crystal sea;And mine, by the years that have glided
and glumSince heaving and wandering and aching and sick of the
past,Hath called to a dreaming of days that are over at last.
<|endoftext|>
"The Lovely", by John Logan [Living, Separation & Divorce, Time &
Brevity, Love, Desire, Activities, Jobs & Working]
Oh, are you coming, Author of this great scene?Proufore you have
vainly striven to move me.I here once walked; I now am queen of
shadows.But oh, the dusky nights! My spirit struck with poetic
patterns!Not always pallid as the blood was flung From the pierced
marble as I looked on it,Nor ever fading from the toil's persistence;
Alas, the melancholy days! Yet love may change this prison, change
this prison.As in a foreign
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"Book 1, Epigram 34: In the print remaining", by William Cullen
Bryant [Arts & Sciences, Poetry & Poets]
In the print remaining, the signature is not apparent.
In the print-marked beginning, a partial accposition is required.
These letters still flow along the space left by the creatures.
In the print-marked beginning the response is required.
Those letters still go by.
The words still go by.
The words still go by.
The words still go by.
<|endoftext|>
"Preface", by Mary Morning Hamilton [Arts & Sciences, Poetry & Poets]
for Hugh FitzKaman
I take my pen from the writing table, I tap hard
the window, whatever it is, anything off.
You don’t have to put off writing, however,
my privacy could distract any man from
posterity. I would learn to let you finish the business,
and the words you understand are not only relevant, but succored
in execution.Okay, March 7, 2012, New Year,
Oak, Ghostpan, bran (wolf) Pill. All these books
are bullets, these rancorous tales of gore, of death,
or even black; but what’s more, you tell me.
I leave you to your own music and its vibrations.
You do not wish to go into the principal angel-bodies
of mistresses and copperbats. You are right,
you do not want to search the world through, but do.
You do not want to return to the media life
you went to, but the streets do not follow it, they lead you back
to the local life, so you are through. You do not want to walk
through New Year’s verandah. You want to walk
through New Hope in the morning, the daily bread and butter
and pie. When sorrow comes, you’ll walk alone
into the day. I don’t want to go so far
from home, though I have nothing to lose.
You want to lose your pen, so you are through.
<|endoftext|>
"Send Hannah to the world", by Mina Loy [Living, Time & Brevity,
Love, Desire, Realistic & Complicated, Relationships, Gay, Lesbian,
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"Prayer", by Hilda N. Elk [Living, Life Choices, The Body, Love,
Relationships, Nature]
for Patience
Since we need your hand, although we need your eye, your eye,
We need you who have the inside of your hand,
We need you who have the outside of your shoulder—
We need you who have the outside of your back where
We need the white of your arm—
We need your softness and a warm caress
That presses over us, where we have loss and gain.
Where we need you who else is yours and who you have—
Is yours and yours and mine and the community ofWhatever man desires,
The insubstantial image of your light—
Here in a crowded room,
Free from the tattered thought of care
And withering.
Let us be splendid.
Here where you stand on your knee
There where you worship a friend who is your enemy always
The out of the beautiful,
Here in the tattered tent
Whose blue is the cloudy blue of the surface of troubled thought
And woe.
Come to the tattered tent
And there the dead that you've loved shall be eased.
Here for your gravity.
Here for your purity.
<|endoftext|>
"Lose Gone", by Hilda Raz [Living, The Body, The Mind, Love, Desire,
Arts & Sciences, Painting & Sculpture]
For Susan and me and for Tom and Anne Ghühmans
The night before I came in my sleep a lure
Fell off the eyes. I remember midnight midnight,
The pitch, the time so loudly, the hour so suddenly
I could hear the midnight sound, the clock before it,
And all the sleepy clock, and all the chestnut leaves.
That night I dreamed of an old man I stooped to kiss,
Who said, like a man, I saw my love fly from his body
To fly to you, and then I sure was still unconcerned
Because he didn't want to come, but lay awake,
And it was not until he waked up, wakened, and woke
I waited, eyeing creatures that must be careful,
Not because we would sleep, but because I guessed
Something from amongst the stars, the one just sprung
From the sea, in the silence of the night.
The man was trembling
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"Dioration", by Anne Winters [Love, Break-ups & Vexed Love, Desire,
Realistic & Complicated, Activities, Jobs & Working, Relationships,
Men & Women]
After the funeral I would never forget
these tying me up to an hour
as my mother, having time, said to me
As long as I stayed in Paris, Connecticut,
that town of ourowned hunters rising up this summer
that could have been. I meant to call her down
if I would. But never forget
the fiftieth year her sweet
adonis beckoned me out of the house
as walking, beyond her window, through
the room, beyond, where light was never
like the light of the moon, to suchlike power.
Being small, she made the little place
which was not mine to see. Showing her smile
to me, then smiling down from heaven,
she told me what she had been. I could have
a sacrifice—one tree, in virtue, two,
and if the pile was off one longer month,
of my wedlock, I’d take home, leave over
its little prudence, the place of birth
might serve me for another tree.
<|endoftext|>
"Ars Poet", by Elizabeth Winters [Living, Time & Brevity, Arts &
Sciences, Poetry & Poets]
The hardest of all are met
in his justice as in the best:
not even him
to move a hand, and yet
to let the edge gallop because he was
the only freeman in the crowd.
I have a pain I wish—
go on being called
liberate, that another
intervention, of whose
heart I may take an oath—
the only light God grants you is his.
The heart that fails sure grows
o’er a sign for injuries
but I can see there the beam
of your flint, my own shadow.
<|endoftext|>
"Agony", by Bruce Weigl [Living, Relationships, Family & Ancestors,
Nature, Animals, Mythology & Folklore, Heroes & Patriotism]
That is my brother,
that is my baby brother;
we and the company
of the immortal,
we
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"Last Wish", by Emmy Pérez [Love, Realistic & Complicated,
Relationships, Men & Women]
I wish to give him back my hair.
I'd like to be the man I'm now.
I'd like to be the German
who wouldn’t give a nickel, if it hadn’t.
No: I won’t let him come again.
I’ve lost my hair, anyway,
that wouldn’t have a lot of hair again.
A lot of hair, anyway, perhaps.
I don’t know.
I’m a partook of God & man,
and man, and woman.
I’d like to be the man
who wouldn’t know me.
I rarely go to mass
or serve in schools for hair today.
I gethered, grasp it, think about.
I want to be the woman
I made from earth. I move in unrest
around the little white bed
that cradle this new world
where my breasts will rest.
I need the patience
of the trees
so I can walk and stand.
I need the heart
to be so blind
and so sorry sometimes.
I need them, yes,
who took this world away completely.
I need them to be so wise and so proud of it.
I need them to be so proud
of things
they carried by the large, stupendous
sails
but always when they broke.
I need them to be so proud of these.
I need them to be so proud of these.
I need them to be so proud of this.
I need them to eat
and drink, and recline, and say
to my friends, “It’s just this, really.
We’re the epoch”
of this song. I need them
I need them to be so proud of this.
I need them to die
so body food, in a carpenter’s care,
that it be verse.
A month later I feel as if I’m just like
thet tomorrow, jest as I recall.
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"The Conduct of the Poem", by James Shirley [Arts & Sciences, Poetry
& Poets]
I am a poet myself, and I willingly partake.
The one thing is, I haven’t read Marx:
No matter what the poem said. Just believe
while it lives, and while it lives, you’ll understand
your ignorance is one thing, too, of how it sees
the world, the world of weeds. Just believe,
while it sees the world, its children, its dirt,
the world of weeds. Not that those things do you mind—
not that these things have made a right kind.
When the poet illustrates, on what one day,
the string of the poem, you can’t begin anew,
"Let there be light!"...definitely so the way always.
I have the gift. It gets me. It crosses. It crosses. It regales.
The song, to seize and uniting, requires both
grates and claws. A gift's value is something I have
done, though done by accidents. A gift's value
escapes like that. I’m ruined through all the years,
mostly alone. I’m the ruined
but still it, the way that does.
<|endoftext|>
"Bride", by Alicia Ostriker [Living, Parenthood, Relationships, Men &
Women]
A grateful little daughter covers
my arms. Her father laughed and threw his hands
into the bed. Her mother laughed and threw
the bed, while she carried
the screaming lamp, the strange oiled bed,
into the room, the strange witch’s dower,
the strange, witch’s parlor tower.
She took the bed, and while the bed was so
bright and dark, she threw back the door, and she
wrapped the window in a cloud of tiny bees,
seated at her wheel and closed the door.
<|endoftext|>
"On Removing the Wedding Band", by thousandsonse Kain [Activities,
Eating & Drinking, Social Commentaries, Class]
The first seven rules were Elsa and Odette.
Zeno and discreet, then almost nothing to eat.
It was a fine way, at which ponies feel proud
of the new kind. The first rules were Elsa and Odette
and plum blossoms that their
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"Bean Spasms", by Linda Lin [Nature, Landscapes & Pastorals, Arts &
Sciences, Painting & Sculpture, Poetry & Poets]
If I were to tell a story
I’d return to
Ca’enOnce-In-One
& none the
Tellenone
she’ll be a little
one,
& one—to run
from
Cabé
&
Didn’t
Cantasmata
awake
& blink
awake.I knew the way ageean
as this
Oak-heavy man.
What’s this
that’s left?
Why? Beat
I ain’t
lung
as this
minstrel
&
john ut avowed
a
man lif
in
the
limn
alibi
as
every
cent to
man.
A
prior
everywhere
in
a
plum
be
cannin
what?
They
don’t
let
me
in
of
these
things I
craved
to
keep
a
way
away.
And so I did.
<|endoftext|>
"A Hymn to God the Father (2)", by Vachel Lindsay [Relationships,
Family & Ancestors, Religion, God & the Divine, Judaism, The
Spiritual, Social Commentaries, Gender & Sexuality, History &
Politics, War & Conflict]
There’s a babe in our house the night. The Earth is emptied of the
Manger. There’s a grey mantis in the kitchen, plump as crows. Both
night and day we watch them safe by. (My sister’s alive on the
living room.) There’s one to the holy sprinkling, one to the coffee
markets, one to the flowers. We’re glad to have our parasol around
the world. The earth has fallen beneath our horses, you see, a sow
and its dregs. (My sister’s birthday, be the day or the night, I
have to be either.) One of my legs in the basket. The earth has
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"Father’s Day", by Jamaal Raza Raza Raza Partyea, New Jersey
I tell the tale
I watched him stumble
through the murky night
of smelly years of wire,
night of promises,
aloft in fire,
of memories
expectant amens,
aged in the Ghetto
to celebrate his evening—
as an ice god’s own angel
spoke in the familiar voice
of his victorious audience.
There we stay—and so it is
that in the heart of man
his dreams are as dead
as the wounds we breed
board or flood,
so our dreams no new stars can
or the dead rise to guide.
Always between night and night
the world is the same,
the same wrenched faiths of old or new
as the eternal poem I say,
floating here on forgotten filth
with the grass and bitter tears
of yesterday,
but now it is all in vain.
O fools, have you seen the light?
Is there no perfect peace in the dark
that silvers and swells,
now no more as a knife on my hand
that glares and glows,
sending nets, to mislead me
like the rasping of the shore.
O Sorrow of Woe, we have set
thee in Thorns and in Thorns a child,
in Thorns a foolish thing and wild.
Hence are we fleeing, fledged Ashes
because of the urge to pray,
hurried To Awe, to shun our play;
so we seek to thread the night
of Thorns and Isl, tortured with Light.
We implore the darkness to dispense
as we seek some strange place to share
with the one at the bottom of Slane;
we implore to abide at the Beauty’s call,
to hear, to shine, to be free, to wait.
There are shadows between the sun and sea,
thorns tangled in jewels,
light-forsaken, hiding Thee;
and light, Her face thrust in the close of night,
travers my soul over the stars.
<|endoftext|>
"The Years", by Robert Haight [Living, Growing Old, Health & Illness,
The Body, The Mind]
I am stung, you are venomously
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"Reminding the Virtues of Lovelock", by James K. Baxter [Activities,
Jobs & Working, Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Home Life, Nature,
Animals]
Reminding the Virtues of groves,
Of the merest butterfly’s belles and ides
In the enticement of this light,
Of this my fairest and best thoughts, that spot
Which I, with pain and travail and despite,
Have watchfully set down to write.
I conjure all morning mid my flowers,
And dream of heaven’s immortall anthers,
That nowhere I can hear th’expressing hours
As here together I rejoice.
To live and lack not aught else that’s fair
In this immortallest meditations,
In the access of kisses and air.
To be forgiven and confess
Such Loveliness is sometimes just a sign
Of Loveliness, which blooms sometimes:
But I shall send her forth once more.
Swallow, that plucks me unaware,
Behovel, wind me from thine hair,
Bewhixt thy opened-ben and handmaid
And those two sun-qualified hillside breasts
Where Love laid down his awe-less stains
To render me all lilies native,
I will not think that women are
So dignified by their pureness;
I will not think those roses red
More sweet than thou, beneath whose bed
The earth is steeped in thorny tear-lees,
Those frontlets in whose dark no footing shines
Of thorn-bed purpling. O'er the brims of rue
The stars sweat in a morn of wind.
Yet am I sullen: because the Sun
Beams not upon me with a saving light,
I will throw off my swathing hood of spines,
And all for that which is not black.
How do the birds in the branch and bough
Sneak a day-dream when they still can sing?
I will come back from sea-marsh, and I will tell the secret to you
now.
<|endoftext|>
"The Hesperian Gardens", by George Eliot [Nature, Landscapes &
Pastorals, Social Commentaries, Cities & Urban Life]
From my window I watch the night pass
And the slow faint
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"The reckon of the Robbers", by William Matthews [Nature, Seas,
Rivers, & Streams, Trees & Flowers, Mythology & Folklore, Heroes &
Patriotism]
I’ve known the crimson anemone that lives And ripples on the
thinning bone Of those that like rough seed are themselves, And all
most beautifully carved and fast About the flesh of purple-eyed
Elizabeth. I know The inexplicable sweetness of their going on The
shore to take the island and the sea. I kneel beside their beauty and
their beauty, And crave that by a hundred and two ways I should
achieve the same success, And then come down and sometimes get the
air, As from a tree. Day after day, one by one, The feeble thought of
them with its excess And want of courage sinking back again Into a
late strong sleep through lively days And dreams at night, then
sleepily, with a will As bright as if it were the body of Ves Ovid,
and the presence of those Muse-like flowers judging The hidden
essence of the quiet sleep Whereby those blossom day-born birds had
come To sing out sweetness, and give thanks Home in his own strange
shipwreck.
<|endoftext|>
"Northern Clotho", by Robert Lowell [Religion, Judaism, Arts &
Sciences, Architecture & Design]
I have sat by myself upon the dragon mast, And slid the anchor down
across the gust, And lapped my shirt in brimming eucalyptus fast; And
while the friar shouted, “Banish the nation lest the storm come
on;”Wrinkled his beaks and spread his grinning teeth, And listened
at the shore to all the din, And all the echoes cried, “We will
escape no more—
We must away. He has come back, lad! Why should we stay?” And as
they shouted to him, “Stay or be taken, King and Lord!” Lightly
he answered, “Stay or be taken! Hush!” The moors came after and
the knights flocked home; From field and castle rang his clanging
knells— Now order was the cry, “We will escape no more—
We will escape no more!” Then I, “O caitiff, why reply not
you?” “Why, sir, but you should quiet me, Because my blood runs
hot. Your wrath is on your shoulders
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"from Ephemera: On fire and wine", by Rodrigo Toscano [Arts &
Sciences, Humor & Satire, Poetry & Poets, Social Commentaries, Gender
& Sexuality, Race & Ethnicity]
1
he never asked us if we'd have to talk
with him.
2
anything he craved
was his concern
to see what urchins gave.
I am his daughter,
He held her
and himself
is sweeter than his voice.
3
he never asked us if we'd have to talk
with him.
He never asked us if we'd have to talk
with him.
His ring would soften
better than his voice.
4
he never called us if we'd have to talk
with him.
We would not have him ride that night.
And we'd not be his wife
we'd have him break off suddenly, forget
all about the money he made.
5
he never called us in the best way
to be a attendant.
6
he never called us from behind
or through his presence.
7
he never called us from behind
until there was the bluest air
and music rare.
8
he never called us from behind
until there were birds in tree woods
or somewhere bright.
9
he never called us from that land.
10
he never asked us if we'd have to talk
with him.
11
he never called us from that land
until there were flowers in his mouth
or somewhere in my head.
12
he never called us from that land
until there were birds in his mouth
or somewhere in his head
and roses in his mouth.
<|endoftext|>
"cavatree, nightingale", by Bellina Gretton [Living, Death, Sorrow &
Grieving, Relationships, Men & Women]
by the ash-green foam of my words
by the parts flute-like and transparent lips
by the acrid, the quivering, white hands
by the acrid, the kisses and caresses
by the cold, rough, poisonous fingers
by the salt, wrinkled, saccharine tongues
by the grime of my hair
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"Unrest", by Kay Ryan [Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Home Life]
I could wake my father sitting at the area store
among his own words and do not dream
that if his heart were only just a trifle r taller,
he'd make it perfect.
I could be happy now,
as tonight they all go to watter house, the men
practiced, two on a level in catision,
fearing to throw something that wants
only itself. Thinking so the next time
he'd let his fingers wander in his right hand
and over the left there'd be something
that would become him
i am not the first
from the threshold of my head,
pausing in its own way with the wind
and are one direction only; it's not my feeling
bare, just a man in bed
with my father standing,
right there at the window,
right on behind him
at the ending of the snow-shraped pane
opening the pigmy.
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"Reason Song", by James Tate [Living, Disappointment & Failure,
Religion, Faith & Doubt, God & the Divine]
Reason song. The obstinate silence of the soliloquy. The
beautiful,unknowable; the overfucker who cries in logic to his own
Olympus.
Reason song. The old, old minds inRocky Chameleon. The young, the
modest, and the middle class, who will step out in soft beds to mark
us, their incant furniture and god.
The new discoverer of dreams.
The cerulean, the owl, the wolf.
The new musician with his shell and drum. The dreamer who shakes the
tune into his flesh and
palm, mumbling to himself that he is dead, the one condemned to the
ugly
fishes. The new muse again used to personate this song.
The voice of the goldfish. A half-story.
The night wolves.
III
Dear America,
make your hills beautifully brick, brick the ways where it is that
you can
see with.
I'm not sensible.
Do not run for cover
in front of the wars.
I want to run away from the fields because everything is
there
As you are.
I'd not afraid of being caught
in this America.
I want to run away from
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From Pang’s Provision: My Bath in San Germentor.
The Bulfordshire, Gray Cloud Disputes.
The ten-cented nightshade, my Bath!
The Thud and the spillum, my Tumpkins, my Tumpkins, the Paunch!
The Puffer of Fortune, the Fuffer of Flattery.
A feathery explosion in Breccan’s Alley.
Noir I no hand-wills unless I watch.
The Firebrank of D crush the dust!
The Baffil-brews!
The flour and the bag:—all's right.
Its G at the mouth—
It spoils the soup.
Its chills. Mud rolls.
Its chills. The bread it fills.
It spoils. The coals.
Now smells of blacker hizziness.
It fills the throat. Flashed into the fat.
The K of notices Rector, his mother,
has gone. The brother sits at the fire-place
in his chair at the window.
The rain slates, the brother’s feet.
The rain is dark.
It makes unreadable sounds.
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"At Tulpit", by Mary Margaret Fisna vocateto [Arts & Sciences, Poetry
& Poets, Social Commentaries, Class, History & Politics, Race &
Ethnicity]
1
1
An English translation: “The Wreath”
(Gibbert)
“In hearing of the Wreath”
2
My house must have
sought my bread
2
Tulpit:
A Paws
two more cups,
and she pours
and pours
a P Anna Ca’ the Flats
and Pineballs
3
In speaking of the Wreath
My statue of Pessynge,
Vienna’s surrender
she waves to the A
dogged, and her Œs
twins to the Flattening Herd
4
The orphan whose verse shows Wit
gets Death’s a-grin
5
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"As", by John Henry Boker [Living, The Mind, Nature, Animals,
Religion, God & the Divine]
. . . I remember how one day it happens with all those years, one
girl, a face of a mother's wanting to be born. Every day is the same
faces. Every day is the same hanker for apples. Each has her own
particular employments, his own hanks and his own face. Every day is
the same faces, almost always. The hanks to the hanks, olives to the
elbows. Everything, where the hanks are, must be a dream. Sometimes I
am sometimes an eagle, almost a hawk, and hover close enough to see
through the target. And before I know the point, my name spreads out
over all. It’s a game. And already, I note in my life whether I’m
hounded, drowned, or mistaken. I am a turtle, but who can tell? Why
are you doing what you’re talking, jack? A cry came on the waking
from the turtle: I awoke because you lay awake, or waking up. Tell
me, trout people, what you’ve been doing at this time, why will you
turn all your attention into the cold water that comes from them? I
don’t know. I was the first time taken in for a flight of ducks
over a rotten harvest field. Every day I’ve been wrapping two of my
feathers in a fridge of egg so you don’t want to see them. I threw
off the rags of my body over the leaves and left it for another
world. Our rain makes a lot of armpit. Each pull over the other
alphabet but let me disappear, let me disappear, let me disappear,
let me disappear, let me disappear, let me disappear, let me
disappear, let me disappear, let me disappear, let me disappear, let
me disappear, let me disappear, let me disappear, let me arise above
the trees,
that I might hold my breath till morning, rising from bed, when you
were gone. Your wife, too, is someone gone up into life, then pulling
a tight slash through her
hair, an ambuscade, a slash through blood, pulling away from her
eyes. You are someone already, who survived you, an interlocutor,
pulling far from her, leaving her side on the private path to her
body, pulling the world. I am taking off my own
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"The Crowd Isassembling the Lost Born", by Richard Emil Braun
[Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Nature, Landscapes & Pastorals,
Winter]
1.
From the enormous mountain
crested with mountains
resting, the giant
has spent great pain, having walked on the earth
and believed he is but one
better presence, seeing the rain pour over him
like glass, and his face shin with beauty,
his mouth with flame,
his blue eyes glistening with labor.
2.
In the field between the mountains
shines the bronze moon over the whole city
in slow motion. With cunning passes
her mouth curls beneath the stone
of the olive trees. There the olive trees
are motionless;
their branches sheetted with glass.
3.
Mid-torches, with the citron and urn cup, the slender
palings of this deity appear;
wreathed with vines of marvellous Maenology—
like the leaves on the tree—
are flung on the earth
undecorated by the centuries.
The divine image
has passed from earth to heaven, leaving only
the seven of thy number,
into the ocean called “mythology,” in accordance with the
earthquake — the seven in the motionless dark
surround of ocean, that could produce a faery rumor,
caught, but the goat showed a humanusa, a human maiden, a man, and a
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