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The Wind and the Other Moon
2023-12-06by Robert Gregory A drift of torn cloud, daylight that's open and clear. The grackles wheeze and groan like old retired gamblers as they wander an...
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The Wine-Drinkers
2023-12-06by Tennessee Williams The wine-drinkers sit on the porte cochère in the sun. Their lack of success in love has made them torpid. They move thei...
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by Agha Shahid Ali First, grant me my sense of history: I did it for posterity, for kindergarten teachers and a clear moral: Little girls shouldn'...
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The Woman at the Washington Zoo
2023-12-06by Randall Jarrell The saris go by me from the embassies. Cloth from the moon. Cloth from another planet. They look back at the leopard like the leopa...
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Conversion
2023-12-06by Lise Goett All day, we loitered at the throat of the penny arcade to hear how the fisherman's cast had taken the eye of Vilas Puchomsky, a pain...
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The Women Who Clean Fish
2023-12-06by Erica Funkhouser The women who clean fish are all named Rose or Grace. They wake up close to the water, damp and dreamy beneath white sheets, think...
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The Wooden Trap
2023-12-06by Kevin Cantwell The held cry of a hawk makes Thomas Hardy think to make her believe it's a newborn's cry she hears. Milk wets through her bl...
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The Woodspurge
2023-12-06by Dante Gabriel Rossetti The wind flapped loose, the wind was still, Shaken out dead from tree and hill: I had walked on at the wind's will, I sa...
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The World
2023-12-06by George Herbert Love built a stately house, where Fortune came, And spinning fancies, she was heard to say That her fine cobwebs did support the fra...
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The world is too much with us; late and soon
2023-12-06by William Wordsworth...