by Marjorie Welish This freedom up. A house difficult of exit, diffident of exit. This flame up. The false house, house of faulty entries. This facade...
by Thylias Moss Snow White was nude at her wedding, she's so white the gown seemed to disappear when she put it on. Put me beside her and the prox...
by Pablo Neruda (Translated by Clark Zlotchew and Dennis Maloney) In these lonely regions I have been powerful in the same way as a cheerful tool or l...
Let the light of late afternoon shine through chinks in the barn, moving up the bales as the sun moves down. Let the cricket take up chafing as a woma...
by Frank Bidart To all those driven berserk or humanized by love this is offered, for I need help deciphering my dream. When we love our lord is LOVE....
by John Brandi Friends, let us wake with disbelief bare our souls, tell our stories, lose our eyes,become vagrants of the Sea. Let us seek the heat of...
by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (Translated by Jaime Manrique and Joan Larkin) Love opened a mortal wound. In agony, I worked the blade to make it deeper...
by Emma Lazarus I see it as it looked one afternoon In August,——by a fresh soft breeze o'erblown. The swiftness of the tide, the light...
by Gregory Orr A black biplane crashes through the window of the luncheonette. The pilot climbs down, removing his leather hood. He hands me my grandm...
by Edgar Lee Masters I went to the dances at Chandlerville, And played snap-out at Winchester. One time we changed partners, Driving home in the moonl...