by Dennis Hinrichsen They must have bled as they sang， the needles so quick through the linen， the frayed mesh， the silvers must have stung them. Pinp...
by Ned O'Gorman When the panther came no belfrey rang alarums， no cleric spat his tea. When the panther came the sky and lawn were still. The pant...
by Jan Beatty I went looking for the body. The apple， tree， the river. Gliding voice， curve of arm，pearly blue uterus. Muscled calf， the neptune green...
by William Meredith Here at the seashore they use the clouds over & over again， like the rented animals in A？da. In the late morning the land bree...
by Edwin Arlington Robinson Whenever Richard Cory went down town， We people on the pavement looked at him： He was a gentleman from sole to crown， Clea...
by Carolyn Kizer for Maxine Kumin Where did these enormous children come from， More ladylike than we have ever been？ Some of ours look older than we f...
by William Meredith What it must be like to be an angel or a squirrel， we can imagine sooner. The last time we go to bed good，they are there， lying ab...
by Sterling A. Brown A man git his feet set in a sticky mudbank， A man git dis yellow water in his blood， No need for hopin'， no need for doin'...
by Chase Twichell A kid said you could chew road tar if you got it before it cooled， black globule with a just-forming skin. He said it was better tha...
by Kate Knapp Johnson It is the summer bears ruled， the last summer of pure breathlessness when I moved unaware， taken in by the netted branches of ra...