by Minnie Bruce Pratt In Hollywood， California （she'd been told） women travel on roller skates， pull a string of children， grinning， gaudy- eyed a...
August in Indiana： a heavy moon hung over space where there was almost nothing but one big town at dead center. Grasshoppers popped under tires， the t...
by Jane Hirshfield But with the sentence： "Use your failures for paper." Meaning， I understood， the backs of failed poems， but also my life....
by Robert Lowell The night attendant， a B.U. sophomore， rouses from the mare's-nest of his drowsy head propped on The Meaning of Meaning. He catwa...
Days of nothingness Days of clear skies the temperature descending Days of no telephone calls or all the wrong ones Days ofcomplete boredom and nothin...
When people say they miss me， I think how much I miss me too， Me， the old me， the great me， Lover of three women in one day， Modest me， the best me， f...
by Ishmael Ait Djafer （Translated by Jack Hirschman） The hands of the poor people of the Casbah are long and thin and stretched like the roots of pota...
I was born in Nogales， Arizona， On the border between Mexico and the United States. The places in between places They are like little countries Themse...
by Christopher Bursk Sundays， your father climbs out a window onto the roof， looking for somewhere there are no women， nothing else to do but undress，...
by Richard Brautigan If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one ...