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...
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 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 Medbh McGuckian From behind the moon boys' graves bleed endlessly; from photograph to browning photograph they blacken headlines, stranded outs...
by George Herbert Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my first entr...
by Edgar Allan Poe Ah broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!——a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;...
by Anna Akhmatova (Translated by Max Hayward and Stanley Kunitz) And the just man trailed God's shining agent, over a black mountain, in his giant...
by W. B. Yeats A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bi...
by Robin Robertson Still sleepwalking through her life, I wrap her up and we go through the snow that fell all night and all through this Christmas mo...
by Anselm Hollo Mr. K said in times of great crudity it is necessary to be subtle so please wrap around me with awkward grace I may have suffered some...