by Forrest Gander As if nothing were wrong egrets dip-feed in near shore channels the human genome reveals chromosomes from parasites annexed by our D...
by Frannie Lindsay When I got it wrong at school—missed a word, could not recite the long division tables—I would lock my knees beneath my...
by Joshua Corey Many tiers make this world pillowed on stone many collect in their fear to strive. Yours the face aglow in the cold, precarious thrive...
by Linda Pastan For Jews, the Cossacks are always coming. Therefore I think the sun spot on my arm is melanoma. Therefore I celebrate New Year's E...
by Edward Lear On the Coast of Coromandel Where the early pumpkins blow, In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs, and ha...
by Pablo Neruda Translated by William O'Daly Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their root...
by James Weldon Johnson And God stepped out on space, And he looked around and said: I'm lonely—— I'll make me a world. And far as...
by Susan Howe For here we are here BEDHANGINGS daylight does not reach Vast depth on the wall Neophyte Alapeen Paper Patch Muslin Calico Camlet Dimity...
by Robert W. Service There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That wo...
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face——the face of one long dead—— Looks at...