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The Leaving
2023-12-06by Brigit Pegeen Kelly My father said I could not do it, but all night I picked the peaches. The orchard was still, the canals ran steadily. I was a g...
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The Legend
2023-12-06by Garrett Hongo In Chicago, it is snowing softly and a man has just done his wash for the week. He steps into the twilight of early evening, carrying...
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The Lemon Trees
2023-12-06by Eugenio Montale (Translated by Lee Gerlach) Hear me a moment. Laureate poets seem to wander among plants no one knows: boxwood, acanthus, where not...
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Boaz Asleep
2023-12-06by Victor Hugo Translated by Brooks Haxton Boaz, overcome with weariness, by torchlight made his pallet on the threshing floor where all day he had wo...
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The List of Famous Hats
2023-12-06by James Tate Napoleon's hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famous hat, but that's not the hat I have in mind. That was his hat for...
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Body and Soul
2023-12-06by Charles Wright (for Coleman Hawkins) The structure of landscape is infinitesimal, Like the structure of music, seamless, invisible. Even the rain h...
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Bog Myrtle V
2023-12-06by Pansy Maurer-Alvarez from a series of coiled basket forms by Anna S. King, textile artist Take bog myrtle that unprepossessing marshland shrub with...
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Bolivia
2023-12-06by Gwen Head (and her daughter) I hate the sea. I've always hated water even as a baby, even in my bath, or so my mama says. She likes it, herself...
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The Little Mute Boy
2023-12-06by Federico García Lorca (Translated by W. S. Merwin) The little boy was looking for his voice. (The king of the crickets had it.) In a drop of...
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The Lost Pilot
2023-12-06by James Tate Your face did not rot like the others——the co-pilot, for example, I saw him yesterday. His face is corn- mush: his wife and ...