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The Walrus and the Carpenter
2023-12-06by Lewis Carroll The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright And this was o...
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Coastal Plain
2023-12-06by Kathryn Stripling Byer The only clouds forming are crow clouds, the only shade, oaks bound together in a tangle of oak limbs that signal the wind c...
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The Waltz We Were Born For
2023-12-06by Walt McDonald I never knew them all, just hummed and thrummed my fingers with the radio, driving five hundred miles to Austin. Her arms held all th...
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Coat
2023-12-06by Peg Boyers At eleven I learned to lie. Disobedience and its partner, deception, became my constant companions. How enormous then that first transgr...
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Cockroaches: Ars Poetica
2023-12-06by Chad Davidson They know that death is merely of the body not the species, know that their putrid chitin is always memorable. We call them ugly with...
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Cold Morning
2023-12-06by Eamon Grennan Through an accidental crack in the curtain I can see the eight o'clock light change from charcoal to a faint gassy blue, inventin...
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The War Works Hard
2023-12-06by Dunya Mikhail (Translated by Elizabeth Winslow) How magnificent the war is! How eager and efficient! Early in the morning it wakes up the sirens an...
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The Wash
2023-12-06by Sarah Getty A round white troll with a black, greasy heart shuddered and hummed "Diogenes, Diogenes," while it sloshed the wash. It staye...
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Coming Close
2023-12-06by Philip Levine Take this quiet woman, she has been standing before a polishing wheel for over three hours, and she lacks twenty minutes before she c...
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Company of Moths
2023-12-06by Michael Palmer We thought it could all be found in The Book of Poor Text, the shadow the boat casts, angled mast, fretted wake, indigo eye. Windows...