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The Ship
2023-12-06by William Logan The sunlight burned like wire on the water, that morning the ghost ship drove upriver. The only witness was a Jersey cow. Florid and ...
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The Silence
2023-12-06by Philip Schultz You always called late and drunk, your voice luxurious with pain, I, tightly wrapped in dreaming, listening as if to a ghost. Tonigh...
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The sisters of the broken candle
2023-12-06by Eric Baus covered every window in the house with x-rays of my bandaged eye. "working backwards from the sky" says she follows every fissu...
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The Slave Mother
2023-12-06by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Heard you that shriek? It rose So wildly on the air, It seemed as if a burden'd heart Was breaking in despair. Saw...
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The Slave's Complaint
2023-12-06by George Moses Horton Am I sadly cast aside, On misfortune's rugged tide? Will the world my pains deride Forever? Must I dwell in Slavery's n...
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The Snow Storm
2023-12-06by Ralph Waldo Emerson Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whit...
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The Snowfall Is So Silent
2023-12-06by Miguel de Unamuno (Translated by Robert Bly) The snowfall is so silent, so slow, bit by bit, with delicacy it settles down on the earth and covers ...
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The Something
2023-12-06by Charles Simic Here come my night thoughts On crutches, Returning from studying the heavens. What they thought about Stayed the same, Stayed immense...
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The Song in the Dream
2023-12-06by Saskia Hamilton The song itself had hinges. The clasp on the eighteenth-century Bible had hinges, which creaked; when you released the catch,the bo...
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The Song of Despair
2023-12-06by Pablo Neruda (Translated by W. S. Merwin) The memory of you emerges from the night around me. The river mingles its stubborn lament with the sea. D...