by Aaron Fogel If you are a goat, do you believe What people tell you about Goats, and eat Tin cans? There's no goat that foolish. Or is there? Th...
by Linda Gregg The girl I call Alma who is so white is good, isn't she? Even though she does not speak, you can tell by her distress that she is j...
by Gerard Manley Hopkins The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, li...
by Jeff Clark This morning in an alleyway I was startled by a face I seemed to recognize, in a dormer above a garage and so slunk up to him, who was r...
by Charles Baudelaire (Translated by Rachel Hadas) A fountain's pulsing sobs——like this my blood Measures its flowing, so it sometimes...
by James Tolan I'm 28 years old in the flesh but in a mirror all I can see is a boy after his first crew cut, five years old and wondering what ha...
by Cynthia Rylant He went there to learn how to give a good perm and ended up just crazy about nails so He opened up His own shop. "Nails by Jim&...
by Susan Stewart You should lie down now and remember the forest, for it is disappearing—— no, the truth is it is gone now and so what det...
by Dylan Thomas The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am ...
by Maurya Simon In the first days of summer the three elms, those slightly opened fans, unfold their shadows across the river. Two dogs arrive exhaust...