by Ray A. Young Bear Immediately after the two brothers entered The Seafood Shoppe with their wide-eyed wives and extra-brown complexioned stepchildre...
by Anne Bradstreet Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth didst by my side remain, Till snatched from thence by friends, less w...
by John Donne Come live with mee, and bee my love, And wee will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and christall brookes, With silken lines, an...
by Lew Welch Those who can‘t find anything to live for, always invent something to die for. Then they want the rest of us to die for it, too....
by Gwendolyn Brooks They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair. Dinner is a casual affair. Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood, Tin flatware....
by David Young You'll show that toad-eater who wrote Night Thoughts what's happened in two centuries or so. You'll make your yard the spir...
by William Matthews Amidst the too much that we buy and throw away and the far too much we wrap it in, the bear found a few items of special interest&...
by Rita Dove She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room, silvery cape billowing dr...
by Robert McDowell When she was younger Nessa shot a bird. She was playing Annie Oakley. Her friend Ramon Had handed her his Christmas BB gun. She rai...
by David Dodd Lee My hand became my father's hand that day, for a second or two, as I lifted the fish, and I could feel his loneliness, my father&...