by Marvin Bell We need some pines to assuage the darkness when it blankets the mind, we need a silvery stream that banks as smoothly as a plane's ...
by Joshua Weiner Scared boy, he even fled a cloud reminding him of what might happen when his father returned from sea, wasted, to find him perhaps ag...
by Laurence Lerner To be or not to be, that is the question To justify the ways of God to men There was a time when meadow grove and stream The droppi...
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 ...
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 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 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 Rae Armantrout 1 Anything cancels everything out. If each point is a singularity, thrusting all else aside for good, "good" takes the for...
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 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...