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Sacred Heart
2023-12-06by Lee Briccetti Even as a girl I knew the heart was not a valentine; it was wet, like a leopard frog on a lily pad, had long tube roots anchoring it ...
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Safe Sex
2023-12-06by Donald Hall If he and she do not know each other, and feel confident they will not meet again; if he avoids affectionate words; if she has grown in...
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Sakura Park
2023-12-06by Rachel Wetzsteon The park admits the wind, the petals lift and scatter like versions of myself I was on the verge of becoming; and ten years on and...
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Sally's Hair
2023-12-06by John Koethe It's like living in a light bulb, with the leaves Like filaments and the sky a shell of thin, transparent glass Enclosing the late ...
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by Li Ch'ing-chao (Translated by Arthur Sze) When night comes, I am so flushed with wine, I undo my hair slowly: a plum calyx is stuck on a damage...
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Salmon
2023-12-06by Kim Addonizio In this shallow creek they flop and writhe forward as the dead float back toward them. Oh, I know what I should say: fierce burning i...
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Salt
2023-12-06by Ander Monson It covers everything, a glossy January rind along tires. Sunny days have brought it out, burned away the ice, left the calcified tidel...
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Salvage
2023-12-06by Amy Clampitt Daily the cortege of crumpled defunct cars goes by by the lasagna- layered flatbed truckload: hardtop reverting to tar smudge, wax shi...
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San Antonio
2023-12-06by Naomi Shihab Nye Tonight I lingered over your name, the delicate assembly of vowels a voice inside my head. You were sleeping when I arrived. I sto...
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San Francisco Night Windows
2023-12-06by Robert Penn Warren So hangs the hour like fruit fullblown and sweet, Our strict and desperate avatar, Despite that antique westward gulls lament Ov...