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“Bird Advice” by Jill Alexander Essbaum

By On June 17, 2009

There you go again, head in hand and wringing out the vandal curl of your hair, the only sparrow Jesus has his eye on. Of course we’ll eat your breadcrumbs. Mostly, you… Read More

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“Helen” by H.D.

By On June 16, 2009

All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face, the lustre of the olives where she stands, and the white hands. All Greece reviles the wan face when she smiles, hating… Read More

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“Ecce Homo” by James Matthew Wilson

By On June 15, 2009

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“The Canto of Ulysses” by Morri Creech

By On June 13, 2009

Primo Levi, in his apartment in Turin, reading The Divine Comedy. February, 1987 Drowsing, head propped above the eighth circle, he feels the present shifting like a keel, takes his bearings by… Read More

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“Business Girls” by John Betjeman

By On June 12, 2009

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“The Business of Love is Cruelty” by Dean Young

By On June 11, 2009

It scares me the genius we have for hurting one another. I’m seven, as tall as my mother kneeling and she’s kneeling and somehow I know exactly how to do it, calmly,… Read More

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“The Feast of Stephen” by Anthony Hecht

By On June 9, 2009

I The coltish horseplay of the locker room, Moist with the steam of the tiled shower stalls, With shameless blends of civet, musk and sweat, Loud with the cap-gun snapping of wet… Read More

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Back from London in Several Pieces

By On June 8, 2009

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“Wolves” by Louis MacNeice

By On June 6, 2009

I do not want to be reflective any more Envying and despising unreflective things Finding pathos in dogs and undeveloped handwriting And young girls doing their hair and all the castles of… Read More

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“Australia 1970” by Judith Wright

By On June 5, 2009

Die, wild country, like the eaglehawk, dangerous till the last breath’s gone, clawing and striking. Die cursing your captor through a raging eye. Die like the tigersnake that hisses such pure hatred… Read More

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“Lilacs” by Peter Campion

By On June 4, 2009

It used to burn, especially in spring: the sense that life was happening elsewhere. Smudged afternoons when lilacs leaked their smell past schoolyard brick, whole plotlines seemed to twist just out of… Read More

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“Men at Forty” by Donald Justice

By On June 1, 2009

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. At rest on a stair landing, They feel it Moving beneath them now like… Read More

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“The Geranium” by Theodore Roethke

By On May 31, 2009

When I put her out, once, by the garbage pail, She looked so limp and bedraggled, So foolish and trusting, like a sick poodle, Or a wizened aster in late September, I… Read More

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“Vocation” by Carol Rumens

By On May 29, 2009

Is it poetry I’m after at those moments when I must clothe your hands in mine or comfort your shoulders —so bare and neglected sometimes when we wake— or press your mouth… Read More

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“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop

By On May 26, 2009

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster… Read More

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“The Woman at the Washington Zoo” by Randall Jarrell

By On May 25, 2009

The saris go by me from the embassies. Cloth from the moon. Cloth from another planet. They look back at the leopard like the leopard. And I. . . . This print… Read More

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“The Best of It” by Kay Ryan

By On May 22, 2009

However carved up or pared down we get, we keep on making the best of it as though it doesn’t matter that our acre’s down to a square foot. As though our… Read More

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“Interior” by Christian Wiman

By On May 21, 2009

Flat light and the white aisles of cotton, sky like an idea of blue. There’s no space like this, wide, fraught with God. The past is not a place but story upon… Read More

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“Tea Party” by Joanie V. Mackowski

By On May 19, 2009

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“For the Sake of Tiger Lilies” by C. Dale Young

By On May 18, 2009

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“Valentine” by Carol Ann Duffy

By On May 17, 2009

Not a red rose or a satin heart. I give you an onion. It is a moon wrapped in brown paper. It promises light like the careful undressing of love. Here. It… Read More

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“Keeping My Name” by Catherine Tufariello

By On May 16, 2009

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“Warhol’s Portraits” by George Green

By On May 15, 2009

Liz Marilyn killed herself because she thought that middle age began at thirty-five. In Liz’s case it did, but she kept going, though Dick went down in flames (Exorcist II). This print’s… Read More

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“Playboy” by Richard Wilbur

By On May 14, 2009

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By On May 12, 2009

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“Meaningful Love” by by John Ashbery

By On May 11, 2009

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“Summer 1983” by Mary Jo Salter

By On May 8, 2009

None of us remembers these, the days when passing strangers adored us at first sight, just for living, or for strolling down the street; praised all our given names; begged us to… Read More

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“Ancient Egyptian Couples” by Ruth Fainlight

By On May 7, 2009

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“El Dorado” by Alfred Nicol

By On May 4, 2009

The “great and golden citie” has to be Arrived at through a jungle maze, unknown. Sir Walter Raleigh studied twenty-three Failed expeditions prior to his own. Quesada, with a condor’s hungry eyes,… Read More

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By On April 30, 2009

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