by Doreen Gildroy Be kind to me, a mess. I represent persistence——in the dirty thing; things larger than me I do not fear. Whatever you th...
by Noelle Kocot Someone inside says, "Get busy." But I've got appointments to keep, I have an abstemious love of equations calculated qu...
by Tracy K. Smith 1. The earth is dry and they live wanting. Each with a small reservoir Of furious music heavy in the throat. They drag it out and wi...
by Michele Glazer The weather forecast that snow would fall from the sky. (The architecture of snow was like the architecture of the storm itself, and...
by Joseph Ceravolo Oak oak! like like it then cold some wild paddle so sky then; flea you say geese geese” the boy June of winter of again Oak s...
by Liz Waldner Cows on the spine of the hill like the spine of a book are some letters Letters with legs; like an E and an L or an R that is squared l...
by Philip Levine Leo's Tool & Die, 1950 In the early morning before the shop opens, men standing out in the yard on pine planks over the umber...
by Denise Levertov He had not looked, pitiful man whom none pity, whom all must pity if they look into their own face (given only by glass, steel, wat...
by Thomas Kinsella I nodded. The books agree, one hopes for too much. It is ridiculous. We are elaborate beasts. If we concur it is only in our hunger...
by Kirk Robertson Tonopah's the only place contour lines appear to rise between there and Goldfield the first Joshua trees beer at the Mozart Club...