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Jun 18, 2013
Revision in My Wife's Powder Room
by Lauren Berry
I’ll need more salt than this. A loose feather
Jun 17, 2013
Mississippi: Origins
by Anna Journey
My parents come from a place where all the houses stop
Jun 16, 2013
from The Princess [Sweet and low, sweet and low]
by Lord Alfred Tennyson
Sweet and low, sweet and low,
Jun 15, 2013
The Flight
by Sara Teasdale
Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow,
Jun 14, 2013
What Is True
by Ben Kopel
one must be one
Jun 13, 2013
Complaint of Achilles' Heel
by Charles Jensen
Everyone’s so quick to blame my
Jun 12, 2013
Birding at the Dairy
by Sidney Wade
We’re searching
Jun 11, 2013
Proximity
by Randall Mann
Out of the fog comes a little white bus.
Jun 10, 2013
We're All Ghosts Now
by Dara Wier
So says my friend who doesn’t know it now
Jun 9, 2013
Ennui
by Marianne Moore
He often expressed
Jun 8, 2013
Inland
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
People that build their houses inland,
Jun 7, 2013
Year of the Tiger
by Miguel Murphy
This new Chinese New Year we were in a film
Jun 6, 2013
Earth Your Dancing Place
by May Swenson
Beneath heaven's vault
Jun 5, 2013
Poem with Lines from Pierre Reverdy
by Sandra Simonds
Maybe the world will not be saved.
Jun 4, 2013
The Last Known Sighting of the Mapinguari
by Traci Brimhall
Before she died, my mother told me

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