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—Rainer Maria Rilke
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Aug 2, 2013
Wonder Cabinet
by Tina Chang
I opened the silver pronged evening and translated
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Aug 1, 2013
horse vision
by Julian T. Brolaski
clock reads 7 at all hours
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Jul 31, 2013
Blue Is Beautiful Amy but the Story Is So the '90s
by Farrah Field
I wanted to be the one who thought of truck bed walls.
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Jul 30, 2013
Demeter in Paris
by Meghan O'Rourke
You can only miss someone when they are present to you.
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Jul 29, 2013
it: a user’s guide
by Evie Shockley
i hear it jingling in the pockets of the innocent heirs
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Jul 28, 2013
It was a hard thing to undo this knot
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
It was a hard thing to undo this knot.
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Jul 27, 2013
Atavism
by Elinor Wylie
I always was afraid of Somes's Pond:
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Jul 26, 2013
UTOPIA: Love as Free as a Fountain
by Joe Hall
How could the news come?
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Jul 25, 2013
Giraffes
by Kimiko Hahn
After skimming the Sunday Times, Dad turned to the back of the magazine
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Jul 24, 2013
One Day
by Joseph Millar
Everything shimmers
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Jul 23, 2013
When Someone Says I Love You the Whole
by Karyna McGlynn
room fills up with iced tea, something gives:
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Jul 22, 2013
Virgil's Hand
by Francesc Parcerisas
The battle’s slow and sinuous,
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Jul 21, 2013
My Grandmother's Love Letters
by Hart Crane
There are no stars tonight
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Jul 20, 2013
What's the railroad to me?
by Henry David Thoreau
What's the railroad to me?
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Jul 19, 2013
Hotel Berlin
by Cynthia Cruz
In the rooms of a run down palace
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