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The Lover
2023-12-06by Reetika Vazirani I took the train from Patiala, left the girls with Ayah, and lied, I'm with Faye and Daisy. Had to say what he'd approve o...
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The Lullaby of History
2023-12-06by Kevin Boyle I put the bookmark in the page after Lincoln's silence during the 1860 campaign, after no one in the Gulf States cast a single vote...
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Bomb Crater Sky
2023-12-06by Lam Thi My Da They say that you, a road builder Had such love for our country You rushed out and waved your torch To call the bombs down on yoursel...
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The Mad Potter
2023-12-06by John Hollander Now at the turn of the year this coil of clay Bites its own tail: a New Year starts to choke On the old one's ragged end. I bite...
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The Man He Killed
2023-12-06by Thomas Hardy "Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! "But ranged as infa...
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Bone
2023-12-06by Claudia Emerson It was first dark when the plow turned it up. Unsown, it came fleshless, mud-ruddled, nothing but itself, the tendon's bored ey...
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The Man Who Never Heard of Frank Sinatra
2023-12-06by Aaron Fogel The man who had never heard of Frank Sinatra: he lived A perfectly ordinary life in America. Born in 1915, He followed all the fads, re...
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The Man with Night Sweats
2023-12-06by Thom Gunn I wake up cold, I who Prospered through dreams of heat Wake to their residue, Sweat, and a clinging sheet. My flesh was its own shield: W...
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Bone Song
2023-12-06by Tom Lavazzi It doesn't turn anymore the worn stone the seasons halted at winter I remember when two bones, rubbed together made people laugh an...
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Book 1, No.5
2023-12-06by Horace Translated by John Milton What slender youth bedewed with liquid odours Courts thee on roses in some pleasant cave, Pyrrha? For whom bind...