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Father Listens to the Artists
2023-12-06by David Petruzelli When I was eight months old, Jackson Pollock stuck his hand in my crib and let me squeeze one of his fingers. He was in my parents...
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Man in the Street
2023-12-06by Muriel Spark Last thing at night and only one Man in the street, And even he was gone complete Into an absence as he stood Beside the lamplight lon...
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Fathers in the Snow
2023-12-06by Jill Bialosky After father died the love was all through the house untamed and sometimes violent. When the dates came we went up to our rooms and m...
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Village of Pulleys and Locomotion
2023-12-06by Rachel Galvin I trail my suitcase along the platform, the weight of the air‘s mechanism at the small of my back. In the old country a man wou...
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Fear
2023-12-06by Ciaran Carson I fear the vast dimensions of eternity. I fear the gap between the platform and the train. I fear the onset of a murderous campaign. ...
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Virginia Evening
2023-12-06by Michael Pettit Just past dusk I passed Christiansburg, cluster of lights sharpening as the violet backdrop of the Blue Ridge darkened. Not stars bu...
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Fears
2023-12-06by Felipe Benitez Reyes By Gonzalo De Lerma The sensation of being the only guest in a grand hotel on the outskirts of the city —and hearing the...
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Visiting Pai-an Pavilion
2023-12-06by Hsieh Ling-yun (Translated by Sam Hamill) Beside this dike, I shake off the world's dust, enjoying walks alone near my brushwood house. A small...
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February: The Boy Breughel
2023-12-06by Norman Dubie The birches stand in their beggar's row: Each poor tree Has had its wrists nearly Torn from the clear sleeves of bone, These icy t...
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February: Thinking of Flowers
2023-12-06by Jane Kenyon Now wind torments the field, turning the white surface back on itself, back and back on itself, like an animal licking a wound. Nothing...