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Curse One: The Wraith
2023-12-06by Cynthia Huntington You are a small shape of death crouched among leaves. The twist of your red mouth is the torque of poison. Tangle of leaves, spi...
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To the Author of Glare
2023-12-06by David Lehman There comes a time when the story turns into twenty different stories and soon after that he academy of shadows retreats to the cave o...
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To the Oracle at Delphi
2023-12-06by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Great Oracle, why are you staring at me, do I baffle you, do I make you despair? I, Americus, the American, wrought from the ...
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To the Reader: If You Asked Me
2023-12-06by Chase Twichell I want you with me, and yet you are the end of my privacy. Do you see how these rooms have become public? How we glance to see if&md...
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Cut Off the Ears of Winter
2023-12-06by Peter Covino Cut off the ears of winter they have overheard too much, where incinerators burn, where rubble-strewn streets are covered in dust from...
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To the Reader: Polaroids
2023-12-06by Chase Twichell Who are you, austere little cloud drawn to this page, this sky in the dream I'm having of meeting you here? There should be a wo...
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To the Reader: Twilight
2023-12-06by Chase Twichell Whenever I look out at the snowy mountains at this hour and speak directly into the ear of the sky, it's you I'm thinking of...
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cutting greens
2023-12-06by Lucille Clifton curling them around i hold their bodies in obscene embrace thinking of everything but kinship. collards and kale strain against eac...
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Cycle of Sounds
2023-12-06by Susan Hahn Hickory, dickory, dock—— it began of course in the nursery. Mouth so safe——the tucked in repetitions that would ...
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To the Trespasser
2023-12-06by David Barber A quiet akin to ruins another contracted hillside, another split-level fretting the gloaming with its naked beams. The workmen have al...