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The First Place (somewhere outside Eden)
2023-12-06by Kurt S. Olsson Listen. It was wrong from the beginning. Never more than an afterthought, I was blamed. Understandable: the weak never have the pati...
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The First Winter Snow
2023-12-06by Richard Brautigan Oh, pretty girl, you have trapped yourself in the wrong body. Twenty extra pounds hang like a lumpy tapestry on your perfect mamm...
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God the Broken Lock
2023-12-06by David Rivard I've died enough by now I trust just what's imperfect or ruined. I mean God, God who is in the stop sign asking to be shotgunn...
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The Fishermen at Guasti Park
2023-12-06by Maurya Simon In the first days of summer the three elms, those slightly opened fans, unfold their shadows across the river. Two dogs arrive exhaust...
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by Dylan Thomas The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am ...
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The Forest
2023-12-06by Susan Stewart You should lie down now and remember the forest, for it is disappearing—— no, the truth is it is gone now and so what det...
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God Went to Beauty School
2023-12-06by Cynthia Rylant He went there to learn how to give a good perm and ended up just crazy about nails so He opened up His own shop. "Nails by Jim&...
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The Forest of My Hair
2023-12-06by James Tolan I'm 28 years old in the flesh but in a mirror all I can see is a boy after his first crew cut, five years old and wondering what ha...
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The Fountain of Blood
2023-12-06by Charles Baudelaire (Translated by Rachel Hadas) A fountain's pulsing sobs——like this my blood Measures its flowing, so it sometimes...
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The Ghost Has No Home
2023-12-06by Jeff Clark This morning in an alleyway I was startled by a face I seemed to recognize, in a dormer above a garage and so slunk up to him, who was r...