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Deer Hit
2023-12-06by Jon Loomis You're seventeen and tunnel-vision drunk, swerving your father's Fairlane wagon home at 3:00 a.m. Two-lane road, all curves and ...
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We Real Cool
2023-12-06by Gwendolyn Brooks We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon....
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Deer, 6:00 AM
2023-12-06by Sarah Getty The deer——neck not birch trunk, eyes not leaf or shadow, comes clear from nowhere at the eye's edge. The woman's le...
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We Wear the Mask
2023-12-06by Paul Laurence Dunbar We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—— This debt we pay to human guile; ...
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Demolition Derby
2023-12-06by Mónica de la Torre Sonya's so good that all the guys pick on her, so the evening's narrative goes. I've heard she wears yellow t...
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Descriptions of Heaven and Hell
2023-12-06by Mark Jarman The wave breaks And I'm carried into it. This is hell, I know, Yet my father laughs, Chest-deep, proving I'm wrong. We're s...
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Weather Eye Open
2023-12-06by Sarah Gridley Besides the toss and drag of shells are you shown no proof as to time lost here? Same stamp on every morning. Tattered glass at rub o...
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Detail of Paradise
2023-12-06by Jean Gallagher (Giovanni di Paolo, ca. 1440) Particularity evidently survives in paradise. Your own uniform, the modesty of it, still fits. Your br...
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Wedding the Locksmith's Daughter
2023-12-06by Robin Robertson The slow-grained slide to embed the blade of the key is a sheathing, a gliding on graphite, pushing inside to find the ribs of the ...
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Diamonds
2023-12-06by Kathryn Stripling Byer This, he said, giving the hickory leaf to me. Because I am poor. And he lifted my hand to his lips, kissed the fingers that ...