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Wildflower
2023-12-06by Stanley Plumly Some——the ones with fish names——grow so north they last a month, six weeks at most. Some others, named for t...
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Wildwood Flower
2023-12-06by Kathryn Stripling Byer I hoe thawed ground with a vengeance. Winter has left my house empty of dried beans and meat. I am hungry and now that a few...
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Winter Letter
2023-12-06by Huu Thinh (Translated by George Evans and Nguyen Qui Duc) The letter I wrote you had smeared ink, But the bamboo walls are thin, and fog kept leaki...
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wishes for sons
2023-12-06by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a w...
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Witch-Wife
2023-12-06by Edna St. Vincent Millay She is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a val...
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With My Back to City Hall, On Yom Kippur
2023-12-06by Jordan Davis The gnats love the highway dividers, the freelance pickup artists love the softness of the hands of the women who love their friends f...
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With Tenure
2023-12-06by David Lehman If Ezra Pound were alive today (and he is) he'd be teaching at a small college in the Pacific Northwest and attending the annual c...
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Witness
2023-12-06by Liz Waldner I saw that a star had broken its rope in the stables of heaven—— This homeless one will find her home in the foothills of a...
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Endnote
2023-12-06by Hayden Carruth The great poems of our elders in many tongues we struggled to comprehend who are now content with mystery simple and profound you in...
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Woman Martyr
2023-12-06by Agi Mishol (Translated by Lisa Katz) The evening goes blind, and you are only twenty.: Nathan Alterman,Late Afternoon in the Market” You are ...