by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Great Oracle, why are you staring at me, do I baffle you, do I make you despair? I, Americus, the American, wrought from the ...
by David Lehman There comes a time when the story turns into twenty different stories and soon after that he academy of shadows retreats to the cave o...
by Cynthia Huntington You are a small shape of death crouched among leaves. The twist of your red mouth is the torque of poison. Tangle of leaves, spi...
by Robert Herrick Let us, though late, at last, my Silvia, wed; And loving lie in one devoted bed. Thy watch may stand, my minutes fly post haste; No ...
by James Stevenson It is VERY IMPORTANT to take care of your cell phone! Do you know how? The best way is to drop it in a deep pot of chicken fat and ...
by César Vallejo (Translated by Robert Bly) Brother, today I sit on the brick bench outside the house, where you make a bottomless emptiness. I...
by Pablo Neruda Translated by Donald D. Walsh Furrowed motherland, I swear that in your ashes you will be born like a flower of eternal water I swear ...
by Lisel Mueller 1) I was born in a Free City, near the North Sea. 2) In the year of my birth, money was shredded into confetti. A loaf of bread cost ...
by Nina Crews To market, To market, To buy a fat pig. Home again, Home again, Jiggity jig. To market, To market, To buy a fat hog. Home again, Home ag...
by Tom Thompson agile founderings and piecemeal flotations. The crowd constitutes a gravitational field that slaps back at the ground, numbed and madd...