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By Hafez
For years my heart inquired of me
Where Jamshid's sacred cup might be,
And what was in its own possession
It asked from strangers, constantly;
Begging the pearl that's slipped its shell
From lost souls wandering by the sea.
Last night I took my troubles to
The Magian sage whose keen eyes see
A hundred answers in the wine
Whose …
Where Jamshid's sacred cup might be,
And what was in its own possession
It asked from strangers, constantly;
Begging the pearl that's slipped its shell
From lost souls wandering by the sea.
Last night I took my troubles to
The Magian sage whose keen eyes see
A hundred answers in the wine
Whose …
Poem
By Ada Limón
Enough of osseous and chickadee and sunflower
and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot,
enough…
and snowshoes, maple and seeds, samara and shoot,
enough…
Poem
By Maggie Queeney
laurel tree, limbs bent and twined into crown heifer bank of marsh reeds,
handful lashed into pipes, …
handful lashed into pipes, …
Poem
By Maggie Queeney
The look I am hunting: the one
that through color and cut glares the starer into a skull or a skein
of lightning, a switch stalled at dawn, or the gloaming
along an equator. What fascinates I shine like flame-blackened foil,
a rhinestone snoring at lake bottom, a wreck's brass-bound astrolabe,
bright as hard tender, newly minted, mewling…
that through color and cut glares the starer into a skull or a skein
of lightning, a switch stalled at dawn, or the gloaming
along an equator. What fascinates I shine like flame-blackened foil,
a rhinestone snoring at lake bottom, a wreck's brass-bound astrolabe,
bright as hard tender, newly minted, mewling…
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