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Sequestered Writing
2023-12-06by Carolyn Forché Horses were turned loose in the child's sorrow. Black and roan, cantering through snow. The way light fills the hand with...
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Twilight: After Haying
2023-12-06by Jane Kenyon Yes, long shadows go out from the bales; and yes, the soul must part from the body: what else could it do? The men sprawl near the bale...
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Two Countries
2023-12-06by Naomi Shihab Nye Skin remembers how long the years grow when skin is not touched, a gray tunnel of singleness, feather lost from the tail of a bird...
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Two Horses and a Dog
2023-12-06by James Galvin Without external reference, The world presents itself In perfect clarity. Wherewithal, arrested moments, The throes of demystification...
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Seven Years
2023-12-06by Daisy Fried These cold days when the insane sky's clear, heat poofs away be- yond its net of edible blue. My cat folds, flops across the laundr...
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Sex with a Famous Poet
2023-12-06by Denise Duhamel I had sex with a famous poet last night and when I rolled over and found myself beside him I shuddered because I was married to some...
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Sexism
2023-12-06by David Lehman The happiest moment in a woman's life Is when she hears the turn of her lover's key In the lock, and pretends to be asleep Whe...
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Rabbi Ben Ezra
2023-12-06by Robert Browning Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith,...
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Shadows in the Water
2023-12-06by Thomas Traherne In unexperienced infancy Many a sweet mistake doth lie: Mistake though false, intending true; A seeming somewhat more than view; Th...
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Shafro
2023-12-06by Terrance Hayes Now that my afro's as big as Shaft's I feel a little better about myself. How it warms my bullet-head in Winter, black halo,...