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I Do Everything I'm Told by Megan Fernandes
epub |eng | 2023-05-17 | Author:Megan Fernandes

and how it will be later told. I prefer your kind of smart, my friend said, by which she means dumb joy. Hey, it’s true. I flip Hades’ den and ...
( Category: Places October 8,2023 )
Previously Owned by Nathan McClain
epub |eng | | Author:Nathan McClain [McClain, Nathan]

They said I was an alternate and looked closely at the defendant, the way a jeweler might inspect what he’s been sold to be a diamond, then looked at me ...
( Category: Black & African American October 8,2023 )
Raven's Echo by Robert Davis Hoffmann
epub |eng | 2022-10-25 | Author:Robert Davis Hoffmann [Hoffman, Robert Davis]

Blind Man could sample a tray of seaweeds and name the rocks they came from. In his day, every point of land had a name, every cliff, even big rocks. ...
( Category: Native American October 8,2023 )
American Treasure by Jill McDonough
epub |eng | | Author:Jill McDonough

My History of Lead The Romans love it. Sweet and sour in wine, sprinkled as salt on their suppers. Decline and fall, poor Romans: go crazy. Let every wonder burn. ...
( Category: Places October 8,2023 )
Your Kingdom by Eleni Sikelianos
epub |eng | | Author:Eleni Sikelianos

All you who decided to go unitary. With infantry. Like slicing deep through a thigh with a sharpened time packet. All you who remained modular or all you who say ...
( Category: Nature October 8,2023 )
Above Ground by Clint Smith
epub |eng | 2023-03-28 | Author:Clint Smith [SMITH, CLINT]

I think about where those babies are now. Do they laugh like you do? Do they wrap their fingers around their father’s thumb as they fall asleep? Do they smile ...
( Category: Black & African American October 8,2023 )
Swallowed Light by Michael Wasson
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Wasson

its frame to build a window back in- to the world. Had this body been held after all these years, I would enter you to find my frozen self & ...
( Category: Native American October 8,2023 )
We Are Mermaids by Stephanie Burt
epub |eng | 2022-10-15 | Author:Stephanie Burt [Burt, Stephanie]

Whale Watch If you approach the surface calmly and early enough on a breezy day like today, you might see them go by. Long ago they would stay for hours ...
( Category: United States October 8,2023 )
The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu
epub |eng | 2022-05-09 | Author:Sarojini Naidu [Sarojini Naidu]

Dear eyes, good-night, In golden light The stars around you gleam; On you I press With soft caress A little lovely dream. SUTTEE Lamp of my life, the lips of ...
( Category: Asian October 5,2023 )
The Best American Poetry 2023 by David Lehman & Elaine Equi
epub |eng | 2023-09-05 | Author:David Lehman & Elaine Equi

from Three Fold SARAH ANNE WALLEN I can see Mars I’m pretty sure it’s Mars I can see it a red star but a planet Mars It’s still there! For ...
( Category: Anthologies October 5,2023 )
Razzle Dazzle by Major Jackson
epub |eng | 2023-07-15 | Author:Major Jackson

Of an era, our mark on earth measured In binary codes, not by deeds, which total Many for you. So many claim your sway, treasure Your artful phrasings and praise, ...
( Category: Places October 5,2023 )
Dream of Broken Feathers by Jeff Edrich
epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Jeff Edrich

Forgiveness I forgive myself for all I have done. I forgive myself for all I have not done. Goodbye. The weight of my life is lying on the ground, dissolving ...
( Category: Poetry October 2,2023 )
Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
epub |eng | 2016-10-15 | Author:Omar Khayyam

. 79 . What! from his helpless Creature be repaid Pure Gold for what he lent him dross-allayed— Sue for a Debt he never did contract, And cannot answer—Oh the ...
( Category: Middle Eastern October 1,2023 )
The Insomnia Poems by Grace Nichols
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Grace Nichols [Grace Nichols]

Because she’s my old biological calendar – both shape-shifter and shadow-maker (her trick of mind, her turn of eye) Because she’s our truest poet of the sky I will state ...
( Category: British October 1,2023 )
Post Traumatic Hood Disorder by David Tomas Martinez
epub |eng | 2018-02-10 | Author:David Tomas Martinez

FALLING Nothing about wounded animals makes me weep, but something about a woman with eyelashes like broken wings, about a woman in red-bottomed heels and an absent father that pulls ...
( Category: Hispanic American October 1,2023 )

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