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by Jane Hirshfield But with the sentence: "Use your failures for paper." Meaning, I understood, the backs of failed poems, but also my life....
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Dead Center
2023-12-06August in Indiana: a heavy moon hung over space where there was almost nothing but one big town at dead center. Grasshoppers popped under tires, the t...
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Walking Back Up Depot Street
2023-12-06by Minnie Bruce Pratt In Hollywood, California (she'd been told) women travel on roller skates, pull a string of children, grinning, gaudy- eyed a...
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Dead Man, Thinking
2023-12-06i. Snow geese in the light of morning sky, exactly at the start of spring. I was looking through the cracks of the blinds at my future which seemed ab...
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Wallace Stevens
2023-12-06by Honor Moore The great poet came to me in a dream, walking toward me in a house drenched with August light. It was late afternoon and he was old, pa...
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Dear George Bush
2023-12-06I am writing this letter just to inform you that the tide is turning. It is a fickle tide, one that has the presence of mind to alter its course. You ...
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Wanting to Die
2023-12-06by Anne Sexton Since you ask, most days I cannot remember. I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage. Then the almost unnameable lust returns. Ev...
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Dear Miss Emily
2023-12-06by James Galvin I knew the end would be gone before I got there. After all, all rainbows lie for a living. And as you have insisted, repeatedly, The d...
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War Photograph
2023-12-06by Kate Daniels A naked child is running along the path toward us, her arms stretched out, her mouth open, the world turned to trash behind her. She i...
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Dearest Reader
2023-12-06by Michael Palmer He painted the mountain over and over again from his place in the cave, agape at the light, its absence, the mantled skull with blue...