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"For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)—they are experiences."
—Rainer Maria Rilke
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May 23, 2013
In Portraits in Seasons
by Danielle Pafunda
As a feral thing would. As a dead leaf
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May 22, 2013
sugar is smoking
by Jason Schneiderman
it’s amazing how death
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May 21, 2013
Indian Stream Republic
by Stephen Burt
No one should be this alone—
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May 20, 2013
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
Song
by James Joyce
My love is in a light attire
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May 18, 2013
Spring Song
by Sherwood Anderson
In the forest, amid old trees and wet dead leaves, a shrine
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May 17, 2013
L’Avenir est Quelque Chose
by Dobby Gibson
All day for too long
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May 15, 2013
The Best Thing Anyone Ever Said About Paul Celan
by Shane McCrae
Today you will the say the any ever
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May 14, 2013
Blue Hanuman
by Joan Larkin
A four-armed flutist took me
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May 13, 2013
Field
by Erin Belieu
Field is pause field is plot field is red chigger bump where
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May 12, 2013
To My Mother
by Christina Rossetti
To-day's your natal day
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May 11, 2013
Before the Birth of One of Her Children
by Anne Bradstreet
All things within this fading world hath end
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May 10, 2013
Time
by Chris Martin
All that happens happens
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May 9, 2013
No Ticket
by Jonathan Wells
His clothes were filled with tickets to past events
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May 8, 2013
Not
by Sophie Cabot Black
that you are unloved
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