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Visits to St. Elizabeths
2023-12-06by Elizabeth Bishop This is the house of Bedlam. This is the man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is the time of the tragic man that lies in the...
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Fellow Creatures
2023-12-06by Bruce Bennett I pat the horses‘ heads as I walk by. They‘re gentle beasts, and friendly; they don’t mind. The gesture heartens me...
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Vodka
2023-12-06by Joel Brouwer The Stoli bottle's frost melts to brilliance where I press my fingers. Evidence. Proof I'm here, drunk in your lamplit kitchen...
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Fern Hill
2023-12-06by Dylan Thomas Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingl...
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Voir Dire
2023-12-06by Denise Liddell Lawson Tell me about yourself. Inflection expresses pleasure. Where are you from? A house with many drawers and in each one is a bir...
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Fetch
2023-12-06by Jeffrey Skinner Go, bring back the worthless stick. "Of memory," I almost added. But she wouldn't understand, naturally. There is the...
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Fiddler Jones
2023-12-06by Edgar Lee Masters The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you...
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Voyage to Cythera
2023-12-06by Charles Baudelaire (Translated by Rachel Hadas) Free as a bird and joyfully my heart Soared up among the rigging, in and out; Under a cloudless sky...
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Fifteen, Maybe Sixteen Things to Worry About
2023-12-06by Judith Viorst My pants could maybe fall down when I dive off the diving board. My nose could maybe keep growing and never quit. Miss Brearly could ...
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Voyager
2023-12-06by Paul Mariani Beyond the moon, beyond planet blue and planet red, each day further from the sun she floats out toward the empty dark of X. Having do...