By Natalie E. Illum
A swimming pool hotter than bathwater. Chlorine haze. My mother along the edge encouraging me, with ...
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- By Kiandra JimenezGranma cautioned in a kitchen off Century and Hoover: Never throw your hair away. Burn it. Till yellow...
- By Chip LivingstonAccept my need and let me call you brother, Slate blue oyster, wet sand crustacean, In your hurrying...
- By Donald JusticeOur lives avoided tragedy Simply by going on and on, Without end and with little apparent meaning. Oh...
- By John Ashbery1. Research has shown that ballads were produced by all of society working as a team. They didn’t just...
- By Natalie DiazHe sat cross-legged, weeping on the steps when Mom unlocked and opened the front door. O God, he said. O God....
- By Randall MannIf there is a word in the lexicon of love, it will not declare itself. The nature of words is to fail...
- By Evie Shockleydreaming the lives of the ancestors, you awake, justly terrified of this world: you could dance underwater and...
- By Sasha SteensenPerhaps the universe is an extinguished building with blue banners strung along and the forest, more...
- By Hailey LeithauserO, she says (because she loves to say O),O to this cloud-break that ravels the night, O to this moon, its mouthful of sorrow,O shallow...
- By Randall MannThis is what he dreams of: a map of burned land, a mound of dirt in the early century’s winter. A map...
- By Blas FalconerThe driver has no knife. He has no knife, no, you think, and lower your head into his car. A ride in the rain?...
- By Maria HummelDays you are sick, we get dressed slow, find our hats, and ride the train.We pass a junkyard and the...
- By A.E. StallingsSleep, she will not linger: She turns her moon-cold shoulder. With no ring on her finger, You cannot...