by Jorie Graham In this blue light I can take you there, snow having made me a world of bone seen through to. This is my house, my section of Etruscan...
by Robert Herrick Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. The glor...
by Lawrence Joseph In the house in Detroit in a room of shadows when grandma reads her Arabic newspaper it is difficult for me to follow her word by w...
by Rene Char (Translated by Susanne Dubroff) You have been my love for so many years, It makes me dizzy to think of so much hope, And my dizziness won...
by Breyten Breytenbach today I went down on your body while windows were thick white eyes and hearkened the clogged cavities in the small darkroom of ...
by C. D. Wright A girl on the stairs listens to her father Beat up her mother. Doors bang. She comes down in her nightgown. The piano stands there in ...
by William Carlos Williams I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one should scour th...
by Kelly Cherry The files in the filing cabinet Are all talking at once. Mumble jumble, say the files In the filing cabinet. The desk, discreet, Discl...
by Ben Doyle When I bend back to gaze at the satellite convulsions, I am an aqueduct for twilit rain. Quite literally I stand in the littoral zone: a ...
by William Stafford Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson River road. It is usually best to roll them into the cany...