by Kurt S. Olsson Listen. It was wrong from the beginning. Never more than an afterthought, I was blamed. Understandable: the weak never have the pati...
by Richard Brautigan Oh, pretty girl, you have trapped yourself in the wrong body. Twenty extra pounds hang like a lumpy tapestry on your perfect mamm...
by David Rivard I've died enough by now I trust just what's imperfect or ruined. I mean God, God who is in the stop sign asking to be shotgunn...
by Maurya Simon In the first days of summer the three elms, those slightly opened fans, unfold their shadows across the river. Two dogs arrive exhaust...
by Dylan Thomas The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am ...
by Susan Stewart You should lie down now and remember the forest, for it is disappearing—— no, the truth is it is gone now and so what det...
by Cynthia Rylant He went there to learn how to give a good perm and ended up just crazy about nails so He opened up His own shop. "Nails by Jim&...
by James Tolan I'm 28 years old in the flesh but in a mirror all I can see is a boy after his first crew cut, five years old and wondering what ha...
by Charles Baudelaire (Translated by Rachel Hadas) A fountain's pulsing sobs——like this my blood Measures its flowing, so it sometimes...
by Jeff Clark This morning in an alleyway I was startled by a face I seemed to recognize, in a dormer above a garage and so slunk up to him, who was r...