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A. R. Ammons

Archie Randolph Ammons was born outside Whiteville, North Carolina, on February 18,...
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		Poems about the End of the World
		Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

		A Song On the End of the World by Czeslaw Milosz

		Apocalypse by Gerald Stern

		Apocalypse Soliloquy by Scott Hightower

		Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

		in the ruins by Mark Conway

		The Truth About the Present by John Lane

		The Very Nervous Family by Sabrina Orah Mark

		Poems about Desire and Wanting
		At a Window by Carl Sandburg

		Driven by a Strange Desire by Mónica de la Torre

		For the Man with the Erection Lasting More than Four Hours by John Hodgen

		If There Is Something to Desire, 9, 17, 18 by Vera Pavlova

		Photographs of the Interiors of Dictators' Houses by Albert Goldbarth

		Reprise by Deborah Brown

		Screening Desire by R. Zamora Linmark

		The Forecast by Michael Dumanis

		To George Sand: A Desire by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Continuity
by A. R. Ammons

I've pressed so far away from my desire that if you asked me what I want I would, accepting the harmonious completion of the drift, say annihilation, probably.

"Continuity", from Brink Road by A. R. Ammons. Copyright © 1996 by A. R. Ammons. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.