by Philip Levine When he gets off work at Packard, they meet outside a diner on Grand Boulevard. He's tired, a bit depressed, and smelling the exh...
by Joyce James Think on it! In the beginning Had not occurred such thing as mortal Death. Walked hand in hand our new Maide children the sweetest aisl...
by W. H. Auden He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be One against whom there was no official complaint, And all the reports on his conduct agr...
by David R. Slavitt The one-way flow of time we take for granted, but what if the valve is defective? What if the threads on the stem wear thin, or th...
by John Blair A youngest brother turns seventeen with a click as good as a roar, finds the door and is gone. You listen for that small sound, hear a m...
by Federico García Lorca Translated by Robert Bly In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody. Nobody is asleep. The creatures of the moo...
by Jack Prelutsky it came today to visit and moved into the house it was smaller than an elephant but larger than a mouse first it slapped my sister t...
by Pablo Medina Let the aroma of need waft across the river to New Jersey: all the snow and hills, a sky that moves and moves. I saw a rose in the clo...
by Thomas Hardy Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed from the one who was a...
by Robert Desnos So like a flower and a current of air the flow of water fleeting shadows the smile glimpsed at midnight this excellent evening so lik...