By Robert Browning
1.My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch…
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch…
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- By Carol Ann DuffyAt childhood’s end, the houses petered out
into playing fields, the factory, allotments
kept, like mistresses… - By Douglas KearneyWas Him, once fini, on the beams,
prior, He's hewer of thorntree.
Could stretch tilapia and ewer,
dole … - By Natasha SajéDo for your neck what you do for your face.
Face your neck whatever the case. Pace yourself
for 35-55,… - By UnknownLēodum is mīnum swylce him mon lāc gife;
willað hȳ hine āþecgan gif hē on þrēat cymeð.
Ungelīc is ū… - By Samuel GregoireMy delirium is a transformocean
Rocking me like the seven thousand waves
That brought Wangolo to Ziltik… - By Norman Finkelstein#
Listen to the children
who know their way about the forest
and return with stories
which the thief… - By UnknownHeyla! We have a story about the Spear-Danes, from the old days
when they were big and their kings … - By UnknownOft him anhaga are gebideð,
metudes miltse, þeah þe he modcearig
geond lagulade longe sceolde
hreran… - By Unknownþat it apertly was apayed for profite þat he feld,
and [wrouȝt] buxumly by þe bestes wille in wise as… - By Nancy LeeIn this story the cockroach is the man,
the curtain my girlhood, the creamed
corn spilled by the mother… - By Jehanne DubrowYou remember the mermaid makes a deal,
her tongue evicted from her throat,
and moving is a knife-cut… - By Hannah Copleyi
Otherwise known as peewit, otherwise known
as tew-it, otherwise known as Vanellus vanellus
of the… - By Lo Kwa Mei-EnWhen the mirror swings open, it calls me obscenely
shapely. A ruby wing slaps the glass. Soft smear.… - By Clare JonesThe Inaccessible Island Rail lives in Atlantis,
with two black feet on the black plateau.
It might be… - By Michael FarrellEverything we do and say in patriarchy can be traced
back to “Strangers in the Night.” Your faded jeans… - By Lily ZhouSaturday. The good bread set out for the dogs to eat.
The rabbit hurt on milk & tall willows
that I… - By Richard GarciaFirst the people had to invent ladders. No one had ever seen a ladder. Once they had ladders they invented…
- By Devin JohnstonWe gathered in a field southwest of town,
several hundred hauling coolers
and folding chairs along a… - By Alyssa Moore