by Tomaz Salamun All young cops have soft mild eyes. Their upbringing is lavish. They walk between blueberries and ferns, rescuing grannies from risin...
by Archibald MacLeish And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth's noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising of t...
by Jon Andersen You must have a hope that will let you stomp and sing at any cold dawn. You must not wait to love the student who loves you and would ...
by Barbara Ras But you can have the fig tree and its fat leaves like clown hands gloved with green. You can have the touch of a single eleven-year-old...
by Mark Yakich And I am not a pedestal. We are not a handful of harmless scratches on pale pink canvas. Today is not the day to stop looking for the w...
by Rae Armantrout 1 Anything cancels everything out. If each point is a singularity, thrusting all else aside for good, "good" takes the for...
by W. S. Merwin My friend says I was not a good son you understand I say yes I understand he says I did not go to see my parents very often you know a...
by Denise Duhamel According to Culture Shock: A Guide to Customs and Etiquette of Filipinos, when my husband says yes, he could also mean one of the f...
by Susan Stewart I am as far as the deepest sky between clouds and you are as far as the deepest root and wound, and I am as far as a train at evening...
by Stephen Dobyns A man owns a green parrot with a yellow beak that he carries on his shoulder each day to work. He runs a pet shop and the parrot is ...