by W. H. Auden He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports on his conduct agr...
by Joyce James Think on it! In the beginning Had not occurred such thing as mortal Death. Walked hand in hand our new Maide children the sweetest aisl...
by Philip Levine When he gets off work at Packard, they meet outside a diner on Grand Boulevard. He's tired, a bit depressed, and smelling the exh...
by Marilyn Nelson The Lutherans sit stolidly in rows; only their children feel the holy ghost that makes them jerk and bobble and almost destroys the ...
by Anne Sexton Gone, I say and walk from church, refusing the stiff procession to the grave, letting the dead ride alone in the hearse. It is June. I ...
by Christine Hume I'm not right. I'm interfered with and bent as light. I tried to use the spots, for months I tried with rings. Only now I...
by Joan Murray 1 It's mid-September, and in the Magic Wing Butterfly Conservancy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, the woman at the register is ringing...
by Homer (Translated by Robert Fitzgerald) An old trunk of olive grew like a pillar on the building plot, and I laid out our bedroom round that tree, ...
by Rafael Pérez Estrada Translated by Steven J. Stewart One of her nipples was red, tepid, carnal; the other, blue, looked made for death's...
by Claude McKay Bananas ripe and green, and ginger root Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit, Fit for the hig...