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The Fall of Rome
2023-12-06by W. H. Auden The piers are pummelled by the waves； In a lonely field the rain Lashes an abandoned train； Outlaws fill the mountain caves. Fantastic ...
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The Family Group
2023-12-06by Madeline DeFrees That Sunday at the zoo I understood the child I never had would look like this： stiff-fingered spastic hands， a steady drool， and ...
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The Family Photograph
2023-12-06by Vona Groarke In the window of the drawing-room there is a rush of white as you pass in which the figure of your husband is， for a moment， framed. H...
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Go Greyhound
2023-12-06by Bob Hicok A few hours after Des Moines the toilet overflowed. This wasn't the adventure it sounds. I sat with a man whose tattoos weighed more ...
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The Father of the Predicaments
2023-12-06by Heather McHugh He came at night to each of us asleep And trained us in the virtues we most lacked. Me he admonished to return his stare Correctly， ...
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Go, lovely rose!
2023-12-06by Edmund Waller Go， lovely rose！ Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows， When I resemble her to thee， How sweet and fair she seems t...
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The Feast of Lights
2023-12-06by Emma Lazarus Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth， And add each night a lustre till afar An...
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Gobbo Remembers His Youth
2023-12-06by David Cappella Let me tell you about suffering because I was a boy cold without love in a large house， so dark it stifled laughs. I would run to my...
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by Benjamin Alire Saenz A man is walking toward me. He is alone. He has been walking through the desert. He has been walking for days. He has been wal...
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The Fire Stays in Red
2023-12-06by Ronny Someck （Translated by Barbara Goldberg and Moshe Dor） End of December and the green of King Saul Avenue copies itself from leaves， the fire r...