By Corey Van Landingham
was, according to Virgil, always a fickle, unstable thing. Woman. Wyf. Merger of wife and man. To indicate: not-girl. Not...
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- By H.D.He and I sought together, over the spattered table, rhymes and flowers, gifts for a name. He said, among...
- By H.D.Over and back, the long waves crawl and track the sand with foam; night darkens and the sea takes on...
- By H.D.I know not what to do,my mind is reft:is song's gift best?is love's gift loveliest?I know not what to...
- By Aria AberOver Skype, I try to document my mother’s bald-shaved youth—she has a surplus in truths, and science...
- By Shanta LeeHunger like her mama Most strong in White gaze as in a Cowbird’s flirtation Sprouted in eyes to tongues to bellies...
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- By OvidSome are transformed just once And live their whole lives after in that shape. Others have a facility...
- By Ruth AwadDays of rain. The drey outside my window would keel and the wind would plunder. My heart was valent ...
- By Trish Salahi. Dog. The time you take home, the time you take away from home. The insistence, the instance worried...
- By Richie HofmannA dolphin fell in love with me. Probably because of my looks— people always said, What a pretty boy ...
- By Anne CarsonI. GERYON Geryon was a monster everything about him was red Put his snoutsnout This image, suggestive...
- By Anne CarsonSomehow Geryon made it to adolescence. ____ Then he met Herakles and the kingdoms of his life all shifted...
- By Anne CarsonEventually Geryon learned to write. ____ His mother's friend Maria gave him a beautiful notebook from...
- By Janet Loxley LewisWe have forgotten Paris, and his fate. We have not much inquired If Menelaus from the Trojan gate Returning...
- By L. M. RiveraWhen the home is no more When the mother's negative light goes also When solitude rips the door from...
- By Ange Mlinkoi If a Legend from fell through a Prizm joyriding Mustangs Aethon and Phlegon half of California? spent...
- By Ange MlinkoThe hotel showers were splendidly profligate. The aqueduct that fed the big fountains down the street...
- By Vanessa StaufferOne expects a certain raggedness— cracked and broken, bleeding in bad weather— but clay has kept them...
- By Chester Wilson IIIwhat would have happened had Achilles stayed entwined with you, his lover, in your bed, who could feel...
- By Joseph Gordon MacleodMoonpoison, mullock of sacrifice, Suffuses the veins of the eyes Till the retina, mooncoloured, Sees...