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