By Xi Chuan
If I could, I would put on a facemask and walk into the desert to meet with fairies and angels. I put...
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- By Emily BrontëO transient voyager of heaven! O silent sign of winter skies! What adverse wind thy sail has driven...
- By Bruce SniderShe lip-syncs “Hello God,” then “9 to 5.” She struts. Or does she fly? Like the soul, a rhinestone, ...
- By Karen Leona AndersonBlack and crackling curiosity, you can take the crush of my hand or glass or chair leg and skitter away...
- By Anna Maria HongMisery spots Catastrophe scaling the garden wall. Misery dials M for ________, while Catastrophe robocalls...
- By Anna Maria HongMisery from Alpha to Omega. Misery is fluent in Latin and Greek. Misery is the shield full of fable ...
- By Anne SextonEveryone in me is a bird. I am beating all my wings. They wanted to cut you out but they will not. They...
- By Angel Nafismy sister wraps the throw around herself on the small cream loveseat & i know for sure that she is not...
- By Ashanti AndersonYou are dark as religion. Remember God could not have named a modicum of light without you. You are ...
- By George SterlingAs unto lighter strains a boy might turn From where great altars burn And Music’s grave archangels tread...
- By Safia Elhilloi was mothered by lonely women some of them wives some of them with plumes of smoke for husbands all...
- By Karen An-hwei LeeIn a new translator’s version of Genesis, there’s no Adam. No serpent. In paradise, I don’t bleed. Fig...
- By John KeatsThou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian...
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- By Thomas Luxwhich regenerate their tails and also eat only the tails of other electric eels, presumably smaller,...
- By Sharon OldsSpoon of O, spoon of nothing, spoon of ankh, spoon of poonss, spoon of the lady at the dressing table...
- By Amber Atiyato mama who on the eve of my birth beat a bitch with a kool-aid spoon for taking her eldest child’s ...
- By Alan SeegerIAy, it is fitting on this holiday,Commemorative of our soldier dead,When—with sweet flowers of our...
- By W. S. MerwinWhen you are already here you appear to be only a name that tells of you whether you are present or ...
- By Eduardo C. CorralI only recognized your hair: short,neatly combed. Our motherwould’ve been proud. In the Sonoran desertyour...
- By Elizabeth AlexanderEach day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each other’s eyes or not, about...