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May 20, 2013
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After Skate
by Carol Muske-Dukes
He glides in on his single wing, after the signs go up. After
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May 19, 2013
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Song
by James Joyce
My love is in a light attire
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May 18, 2013
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Spring Song
by Sherwood Anderson
In the forest, amid old trees and wet dead leaves, a shrine
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May 14, 2013
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Blue Hanuman
by Joan Larkin
A four-armed flutist took me
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May 13, 2013
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Field
by Erin Belieu
Field is pause field is plot field is red chigger bump where
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May 12, 2013
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To My Mother
by Christina Rossetti
To-day's your natal day
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May 10, 2013
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Time
by Chris Martin
All that happens happens
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May 9, 2013
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No Ticket
by Jonathan Wells
His clothes were filled with tickets to past events
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May 8, 2013
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Not
by Sophie Cabot Black
that you are unloved
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May 7, 2013
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After Catullus
by Matthew Rohrer
If you, Tom, could see this inflight video map
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May 6, 2013
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Mimosa
by Mary Ruefle
Pink dandruff of some tree
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May 4, 2013
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Remorse
by Carl Sandburg
The horse's name was Remorse
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May 2, 2013
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Belong To
by David Baker
See the pair of us
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Apr 29, 2013
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The Sparrow
by Gerald Stern
Here’s a common sparrow, a bit of a schnorrer
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Apr 27, 2013
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Poetry
by Alfred Kreymborg
Ladislaw the critic
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Apr 25, 2013
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A Greek Island
by Edward Hirsch
Traveling over your body I found
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Apr 24, 2013
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Dear J.
by Kazim Ali
It should be a letter
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Apr 23, 2013
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Spent
by Mark Doty
Late August morning I go out to cut
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Apr 22, 2013
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William Dawes
by Eileen Myles
faint tinkling down the street
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Apr 17, 2013
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Lake Havasu
by Dorianne Laux
Man-made, bejesus hot, patches of sand turned to glass.
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Apr 13, 2013
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This Compost
by Walt Whitman
Something startles me where I thought I was safest
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Apr 11, 2013
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Whom You Love
by Joseph O. Legaspi
The man whose throat blossoms with spicy chocolates
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Apr 9, 2013
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Another Elegy
by Jericho Brown
To believe in God is to love
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Apr 7, 2013
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The Daffodils
by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
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Apr 6, 2013
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April
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
When the fields catch flower
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Apr 5, 2013
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Like Any Good American
by Brynn Saito
I bathe my television in total attention I give it my corneas
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Apr 4, 2013
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Primitive State [excerpt]
by Anselm Berrigan
Thingitation righteousness for pre-avail to drive away the mighty kraken
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Apr 3, 2013
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Yours
by Daniel Hoffman
I am yours as the summer air at evening is
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Apr 2, 2013
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The Forecast
by Michael Dumanis
I carry myself out into the rainswept blur.
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Apr 1, 2013
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Compassion IV
by Noelle Kocot
The human realities of the living are now
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Mar 30, 2013
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Poem
by John Gray
Geranium, houseleek, laid in oblong beds
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Mar 27, 2013
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The Pain
by Laura Kasischke
Like the human brain, which organizes
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Mar 25, 2013
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Ode, Aubade
by Greg Wrenn
And the morning, too,
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Mar 24, 2013
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Cahoots
by Carl Sandburg
Play it across the table
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Mar 22, 2013
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Ring
by Melissa Stein
Control was all
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Mar 16, 2013
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The Wife-Woman
by Anne Spencer
Maker-of-Sevens in the scheme of things
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Mar 15, 2013
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Opening Gambit
by Michael McGriff
Two decommissioned highways cross
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Mar 13, 2013
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Immortality
by Craig Morgan Teicher
I feel like Emily Dickinson did, running her pale finger over each blade of grass,
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Mar 12, 2013
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French Kissing
by Gregory Sherl
What is there left to do during a truce, but look at boys
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Mar 11, 2013
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Life
by Joe Brainard
When I stop and think about what it's all about I do come up with some answers, but they don’t help very much
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Mar 10, 2013
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Gate of Freedom
by Deema K. Shehabi
Lovers of asparagus, alive
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Mar 9, 2013
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The Wolf Reader
by George Szirtes
There were the books, and wolves were in the books
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Mar 8, 2013
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Dusk
by Margo Berdeshevsky
This is the place. No chairs
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Mar 6, 2013
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Ghazal: In Silence
by Mimi Khalvati
Let them be, the battles you fought, in silence
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Mar 5, 2013
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White T-shirt
by Lewis Ellingham
I caught sight of it at a bus stop
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Mar 4, 2013
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Gapped Sonnet
by Suzanne Gardinier
Between the blinds Past the coded locks
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Feb 28, 2013
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Tis Late
by April Bernard
Of course the tall stringy woman
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Feb 26, 2013
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Base Camp
by Tom Healy
How much oxygen
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Feb 25, 2013
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The Objectified Mermaid
by Matthea Harvey
The photographer has been treating her like a spork all morning. “Wistful
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Feb 24, 2013
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O
by Mary Sidney Herbert
Oh, what a lantern, what a lamp of light
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Feb 23, 2013
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A Billet Doux
by George Moses Horton
DEAR MISS: Notwithstanding the cloud of doubts which overshadows the mind of adoring fancy
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Feb 22, 2013
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Magdalene
by Marie Howe
You know it was funny because he seemed so well the night before
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Feb 21, 2013
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26
by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Your names toll in my dreams
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Feb 20, 2013
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The Figure
by Joseph Fasano
You sit at a window and listen to your father
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Feb 19, 2013
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Individual Time
by Alice Notley
I'm calling out from pictures to your vision creating it
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Feb 18, 2013
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A House Divided
by Kyle Dargan
On a railroad car in your America
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Feb 17, 2013
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The Moods
by W. B. Yeats
Time drops in decay
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Feb 13, 2013
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Domestic
by Deborah Landau
At night, down the hall into the bedroom we go
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Feb 11, 2013
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Oracle
by Cate Marvin
Dead girls don't go the dying route to get known
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Feb 10, 2013
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House or Window Flies
by John Clare
These little window dwellers, in cottages and halls, were always entertaining to me
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Feb 9, 2013
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The Letter
by Amy Lowell
Little cramped words scrawling all over the paper
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