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Apart (Les Séparés)
2023-12-06by Louis Simpson and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Do not write. I am sad, and want my light put out. Summers in your absence are as dark as a room. I h...
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Aphorisms
2023-12-06by Antonio Porchia (Translated by W. S. Merwin) Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no...
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Apostrophe
2023-12-06by Angie Estes How many in a field of wheat, and to whom do they belong? O death, O grave, Bright star, thou bleeding piece of earth, thou shouldst be...
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Appalachian Front
2023-12-06by Robert Lewis Weeks Panther lies next to Wharncliffe and Wharncliffe next to Devon and Devon next to Delorme. In each a single fisherman casts in th...
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April 15th
2023-12-06by Aleda Shirley Taxes due, the anniversary of Henry James's death, & a brilliant sky rinsed of pollen & glare by yesterday's record r...
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April Inventory
2023-12-06by W. D. Snodgrass The green catalpa tree has turned All white; the cherry blooms once more. In one whole year I haven't learned A blessed thing t...
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Aprilis from Roman Year
2023-12-06by Reginald Shepherd lights scrolls across an unmade bed, we were setting out for Aries in paper planes (white dwarf stars bright in a wilderness of w...
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Archaic Torso of Apollo
2023-12-06by Rainer Maria Rilke (Translated by Stephen Mitchell) We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suf...
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Arms
2023-12-06by Richard Tayson I'm late for the birth- day party, it's one of those cool after- noons when the world is clear, is made of glass, the sky so...
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ARNICA / ABSOLUTION / AMBIEN
2023-12-06by Miranda Field No mortal ever learns to go to sleep definitively. No baby, animal or vegetable, intends to sink his vehicle in so soundless a lake. ...