By Josh Bell
“You can’t kiss a movie,” Jean-Luc Godard said, and this is mostly true, in that you cannot initiate...
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- By John TickhillIn springtime, chief of all seasons, in May when new joys rise and flourish, the sun is lord and messenger...
- By J. V. CunninghamThere is no stillness in this wood. The quiet of this clearing Is the denial of my hearing The sounds...
- By Justin Phillip ReedDoes a man with no intentions know he means you only harm? If lodged in the scar were a pearl of such...
- By UnknownIt's as if someone should give a gift to my people— they will kill him if he comes to the troop. It ...
- By UnknownLeodum is minum swylce him mon lac gife; willað hy hine aþecgan, gif he on þreat cymeð. Ungelic is us...
- By Hoa NguyenA student at the military school 1956 and a literary teacher at the nearby high school fall in love ...
- By MirabaiO friends, I am mad with love, and no one sees. My mattress is a sword-point, how can I sleep when the...
- By Christopher MalecWe met at Burger King... so I thought I could have us my way If I had known you were gonna drive through...
- By Noor NagaThere are people to live for and people to die for I comfort myself: there are people to sleep with ...
- By Tommye Blountyou ask, because you have everything and nothing or no one, not even a man like me, will destroy that...
- By Mohja KahfYour heart is a wall on which I knocked looking for a door, a latch a windowsill, a flowerpot Everything...
- By Tianru WangHow convenient for Cui Hao that the one who left was an immortal. If only we could all have his good...
- By Eduardo C. CorralHis beard: an avalanche of honey, an avalanche of thorns. In a bar too close to the Pacific, he said...
- By Noah BaldinoOn the days we don’t talk, I watch the dog do foolish frantic loops alone around the park. This morning...
- By John KeatsThou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian...
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- By Rebecca Morgan FrankIn the next room, Peter’s gloved hands crack cordoned-off spines: he has been granted permission, his...
- By Craig Morgan TeicherHow tense it makes me, reading poetry, knowing how much I miss, misunderstand, how only some of the ...
- By Jonathan BrackerGoing down the escalator of the subway, I glanced across and saw on the escalator's partner rising up...
- By Cate MarvinI regard your affections, find your teeth have left me a bruise necklace. Those lipstick marks leech...