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Jul 28
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Stars
by Keith Douglas
The stars still marching in extended order
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Jul 27
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Wheeling Motel
by Franz Wright
The vast waters flow past its back yard
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Jul 26
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Cameo One
by Michael McClure
WE HAVE GONE
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Jul 21
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Rest.
by Richard Jones
It's so late I could cut my lights
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Jul 19
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the gate
by Tadeusz Różewicz
Lasciate ogni speranza
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Jul 16
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MacDowell
by Rachel Wetzsteon
For once I fought back
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Jul 11
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Break of Day
by John Donne
Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be?
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Jul 9
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Stet Stet Stet
by Ange Mlinko
Where the curve of the road rhymes with the reservoir's
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Jul 8
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Tell Me
by Sara London
In my country
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Jul 6
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Marble Hill
by Kazim Ali
Paradise lies beneath the feet of your mother
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Jul 4
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America
by Walt Whitman
Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,
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Jun 27
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In Summer
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Oh, summer has clothed the earth
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Jun 26
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Mowing
by Robert Frost
There was never a sound beside the wood but one
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Jun 25
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"Out, Out—"
by Robert Frost
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
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Jun 24
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Phantom Noise
by Brian Turner
There is this ringing hum this
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Jun 22
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Packet
by Jamie Ross
A green light that comes
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Jun 20
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The Fly
by William Blake
Little fly
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Jun 19
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Back Yard
by Carl Sandburg
Shine on, O moon of summer
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Jun 17
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Insomnia
by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
But it's really fear you want to talk about
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Jun 16
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Electricity
by Geoffrey Nutter
Children picking through the rocks
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Jun 15
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Passage I
by Maureen N. McLane
little moth
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Jun 14
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Freud
by James Cummins
Come to think of it, I never speak of Mom
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Jun 5
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Summer Song
by William Carlos Williams
Wanderer moon
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Jun 4
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Ecclesiastes
by Khaled Mattawa
The trick is that you're willing to help them
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Jun 2
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I Have News for You
by Tony Hoagland
There are people who do not see a broken playground swing
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May 31
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The Present/
by Lisa Robertson
You step from the bus into a sequencing tool that is moist and carries the scent of quince
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May 29
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Temper
by Beth Bachmann
Some things are damned to erupt like wildfire
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May 22
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Early Memory
by January Gill O'Neil
I remember picking up a fistful
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May 20
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Hey You
by Adrian Blevins
Back when my head like an egg in a nest
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May 19
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Why They Went
by Elizabeth Bradfield
Frost bitten. Snow blind. Hungry. Craving
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May 18
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Green Shade
by Henri Cole
With my head on his spotted back
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May 17
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Ancient Theories
by Nick Lantz
A horse hair falls into the water and grows into an eel
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May 12
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Imagining Starry
by Marie Ponsot
The place of language is the place between me
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May 6
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Inland
by Chase Twichell
Above the blond prairies
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May 3
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9.
by E. E. Cummings
there are so many tictoc
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May 1
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April
by James Schuyler
The morning sky is clouding up
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Apr 28
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Born Late
by David Dodd Lee
A block of soap
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Apr 20
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Crannóg
by Moya Cannon
Where an ash bush grows in the lake
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Apr 15
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Dear Michael (2)
by Mark McMorris
The wound cannot close; language is a formal exit
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Apr 11
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Fireflies
by Fred Chappell
The children race now here by the ivied fence
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Apr 9
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Lost
by Stephen Dobyns
A cry was heard among the trees
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Apr 7
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Nox [Excerpts]
by Anne Carson
gentes, gens gentis, feminine noun
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Apr 5
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Inheritance
by Daniel Johnson
We drank hard water
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Apr 4
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Small Talk
by Eleanor Lerman
It is a mild day in the suburbs
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Apr 3
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Gold River
by Catie Rosemurgy
The arch in the bridge. The moment of architecture
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Apr 2
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In the Village
by Derek Walcott
I came up out of the subway and there were
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Apr 1
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A Story
by Philip Levine
Everyone loves a story. Let's begin with a house
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