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The Hermit Goes Up Attic
2023-12-06by Maxine Kumin Up attic， Lucas Harrison， God rest his frugal bones， once kept a tidy account by knifecut of some long-gone harvest. The wood was new....
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Believing in Iron
2023-12-06by Yusef Komunyakaa The hills my brothers & I created Never balanced， & it took years To discover how the world worked. We could look at a tre...
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The High-Toned Old Christian Woman
2023-12-06by Wallace Stevens Poetry is the supreme fiction， madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus， The c...
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Beneath Speech
2023-12-06by Mary Ann Samyn -She lay very still， looking up at the undersides of words. Pink was pink all the way through， like any organ might be， plucked from...
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The Highwayman
2023-12-06by Alfred Noyes The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees， The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas， The road was a ribbo...
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Between the Beating Clocks
2023-12-06by Crystal Bacon Cheap， made to travel they throw their tiny drumbeats out in stereo from the bed table to the work station. They fill the room with a...
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The Hills of Little Cornwall
2023-12-06by Mark Van Doren The hills of little Cornwall Themselves are dreams. The mind lies down among them， Even by day， and snores， Snug in the perilous kno...
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Beyond Even This
2023-12-06by Maggie Anderson Who would have thought the afterlife would look so much like Ohio？ A small town place， thickly settled among deciduous trees. I liv...
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The History of Silk
2023-12-06by Gary Fincke In seventh grade， when we were alone for An afternoon， no chance of being caught， Silk was what we sought in our sisters' rooms. It...
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The Hour and What Is Dead
2023-12-06by Li-Young Lee Tonight my brother， in heavy boots， is walking through bare rooms over my head， opening and closing doors. What could he be looking fo...