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In Memory of M. B.
2023-12-06by Anna Akhmatova Translated by Max Hayward and Stanley Kunitz Here is my gift， not roses on your grave， not sticks of burning incense. You lived aloo...
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In Memory of Sigmund Freud
2023-12-06by W. H. Auden When there are so many we shall have to mourn， when grief has been made so public， and exposed to the critique of a whole epoch the fra...
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In Memory of W. B. Yeats
2023-12-06by W. H. Auden I He disappeared in the dead of winter： The brooks were frozen， the airports almost deserted， And snow disfigured the public statues； T...
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In Paris
2023-12-06by Carl Dennis Today as we walk in Paris I promise to focus More on the sights before us than on the woman We noticed yesterday in the photograph at t...
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In Praise of Scribble
2023-12-06by Orlando González Esteva Scribbles are the lianas of the forest of our selves. Clinging to them， the primate still in us frolics free. Knotti...
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In Tennessee I Found a Firefly
2023-12-06by Mary Szybist Flashing in the grass； the mouth of a spider clung to the dark of it： the legs of the spider held the tucked wings close， held the abd...
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In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever
2023-12-06by Wanda Coleman we were never caught we partied the southwest， smoked it from L.A. to El Dorado worked odd jobs between delusions of escape drunk on ...
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In the Bathroom Mirror
2023-12-06by Ralph Burns He continues to ponder And his wife moves next to him. She looks. They look at themselves Looking through the fog. She has a meeting sh...
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In the Black Kitchen
2023-12-06by David Dodd Lee It begins early， arc crumbling over the yard with its salt bird baths. Then you dream of the banister gleaming， your hand from atop ...
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In the Girls'Room
2023-12-06by Wendy Mnookin I saw them making out， Sheila whispers from the stall next to mine. We're standing， hidden from each other on opposite sides of t...