by Walt McDonald I never knew them all, just hummed and thrummed my fingers with the radio, driving five hundred miles to Austin. Her arms held all th...
by Kathryn Stripling Byer The only clouds forming are crow clouds, the only shade, oaks bound together in a tangle of oak limbs that signal the wind c...
by Lewis Carroll The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright And this was o...
by Robert Desnos So like a flower and a current of air the flow of water fleeting shadows the smile glimpsed at midnight this excellent evening so lik...
by Thomas Hardy Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed from the one who was a...
by Pablo Medina Let the aroma of need waft across the river to New Jersey: all the snow and hills, a sky that moves and moves. I saw a rose in the clo...
by Jack Prelutsky it came today to visit and moved into the house it was smaller than an elephant but larger than a mouse first it slapped my sister t...
by Federico García Lorca Translated by Robert Bly In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody. Nobody is asleep. The creatures of the moo...
by John Blair A youngest brother turns seventeen with a click as good as a roar, finds the door and is gone. You listen for that small sound, hear a m...
by David R. Slavitt The one-way flow of time we take for granted, but what if the valve is defective? What if the threads on the stem wear thin, or th...