by Vijay Seshadri We hold it against you that you survived. People better than you are dead, but you still punch the clock. Your body has wizened but ...
by Jack Prelutsky I am Super Samson Simpson, I'm superlatively strong, I like to carry elephants, I do it all day long, I pick up half a dozen and...
by John Barton We stand on the edge, the fall into depth, the ascent of light revelatory, the canyon walls moving up out of shadow, lit colours of the...
by Angela Shannon It could have been the way the Southern man in his navy suit and skin rocked along the church wall, swaying to the tambourine like a...
by Michael Palmer Write this. We have burned all their villages Write this. We have burned all the villages and the people in them Write this. We have...
by Robinson Jeffers When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the uns...
by Elizabeth Bishop This is a day when truths will out, perhaps; leak from the dangling telephone earphones sapping the festooned switchboards' st...
by Douglas Goetsch Desperate to be part of the night, we jerked like a bunch of spazzes to that screaming eunuch, Michael Jackson. Randi Muelbach kept...
by James Tate I sit on the tracks, a hundred feet from earth, fifty from the water. Gerald is inching toward me as grim, slow, and determined as a sea...
by Dana Levin You put a bag around your head and walked into the river. You walked into the river with a bag around your head and you were never dead,...