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A Hand
2023-12-06A hand is not four fingers and a thumb. Nor is it palm and knuckles, not ligaments or the fat's yellow pillow, not tendons, star of the wristbone,...
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A Happy Birthday
2023-12-06This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could easily have switc...
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A Hedge of Rubber Trees
2023-12-06The West Village by then was changing; before long the rundown brownstones at its farthest edge would have slipped into trendier hands. She lived, imp...
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A Hermit Thrush
2023-12-06Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day, the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up the scree-slope of what at high tide will be again...
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A Light Says Why
2023-12-06A light says why. From all the poor prying. Again we attain a more regal posture——small bird accompanying slips between our whim. Where wi...
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A Litany in Time of Plague
2023-12-06Adieu, farewell, earth's bliss; This world uncertain is; Fond are life's lustful joys; Death proves them all but toys; None from his darts can...
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A Little History
2023-12-06Some people find out they are Jews. They can't believe it. They had always hated Jews. As children they had roamed in gangs on winter nights in th...
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A Little Tooth
2023-12-06Your baby grows a tooth, then two, and four, and five, then she wants some meat directly from the bone. It's all over: she'll learn some words...
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A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M.
2023-12-06They have watered the street, It shines in the glare of lamps, Cold, white lamps, And lies Like a slow-moving river, Barred with silver and black. Cab...
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A Myth of Devotion
2023-12-06When Hades decided he loved this girl he built for her a duplicate of earth, everything the same, down to the meadow, but with a bed added. Everything...