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Evening
2023-12-06by Gail Mazur Sometimes she's Confucian—— resolute in privation. . . . Each day, more immobile, hip not mending, legs swollen; still s...
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Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
2023-12-06by Eugene Field Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe,—— Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew. &q...
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Evening Hawk
2023-12-06by Robert Penn Warren From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through Geometries and orchids that the sunset builds, Out of the peak's black a...
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Vacant Lot with Pokeweed
2023-12-06by Amy Clampitt Tufts, follicles, grubstake biennial rosettes, a low- life beach-blond scruff of couch grass: notwithstanding the interglinting dregs ...
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Evening Walk as the School Year Starts
2023-12-06by Sydney Lea When was the last lobotomy, I wonder? Too late for Carl at least, whom it's all but hopeless to think of as a whipsaw of hateful pas...
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Vacation
2023-12-06by Rita Dove I love the hour before takeoff, that stretch of no time, no home but the gray vinyl seats linked like unfolding paper dolls. Soon we shal...
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Every Infant's Blood
2023-12-06by Graham Duncan Every tree is an ancestor tree, not just grandfather redwoods. Every sapling, every sprout, carries that majesty, the dissolution of ...
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Vanity
2023-12-06by Kathryn Stripling Byer Without hands a woman would stand at her mirror looking back only, not touching, for how could she? Eyelid. Cheek. Earlobe. ...
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Everybody Loves Eric Dolphy
2023-12-06by Sarah Fox —for Brian Engel-Fuentes Father glues the hippo back together, as he‘s done before when the others broke. It‘s no small...
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Variation on the Word Sleep
2023-12-06by Margaret Atwood I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to e...