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Gooseberry Season
2023-12-06by Simon Armitage Which reminds me. He appeared at noon, asking for water. He‘d walked from town after losing his job, leaving me a note for his...
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Gospel
2023-12-06by Philip Levine The new grass rising in the hills, the cows loitering in the morning chill, a dozen or more old browns hidden in the shadows of the c...
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Grandfather Says
2023-12-06by Ai "Sit in my hand." I'm ten. I can't see him, but I hear him breathing in the dark. It's after dinner playtime. We're ou...
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Grandfather's Song
2023-12-06by Nan Arbuckle The Osage family moved slowly to the beat, circling the drum with sons and daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Friends j...
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Grandma Climbs
2023-12-06by Philip Schultz Grandma climbs a chair to yell at God for killing her only husband whose only crime was forgetting where he put things. Finally, God...
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Ground Swell
2023-12-06by Mark Jarman Is nothing real but when I was fifteen, Going on sixteen, like a corny song? I see myself so clearly then, and painfully—— ...
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Harbor at Old Saybrook
2023-12-06by K. E. Duffin Where pageantries of peril flow quickly, a nightmare sea is breaking panes from below with stunted fists, but the lid of ice is heavy,...
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Hard Evidence
2023-12-06by Timothy Liu A room walled-in by books where the hours withdraw. At the foot of an unmade bed a bird of paradise. Motel carpet melted where an iron ...
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Hard Night
2023-12-06by Christian Wiman What words or harder gift does the light require of me carving from the dark this difficult tree? What place or farther peace do I ...
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Hardware Sparrows
2023-12-06by R. T. Smith Out for a deadbolt, light bulbs and two-by-fours, I find a flock of sparrows safe from hawks and weather under the roof of Lowe's a...