Thursday, June 11, 2015

982. It Was A Time - Stephen Dunn

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. Some of us just wanted to drop out, go far away from integrity’s demands. Others sought strange consultations with their almost van...
Saturday, May 09, 2015

981. Two Paintings by Gustav Klimt - Jorie Graham

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. Although what glitters          on the trees, row after perfect row,         is merely the injustice         of the world, ...
Sunday, May 03, 2015

980. The Little Ways That Encouarge Good Fortune

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. Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why. If you do not have things right in your life you will be overwhelmed:...
Saturday, March 14, 2015

979. A Tale Begun - Wislawa Szymborska

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. Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanag h The world is never ready for the birth of a child. Our ...

978. Most of the Warriors - James Kavanaugh

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. Most of the warriors I knew Have settled down to gardening, and the morning Times, Tired of stalking ghosts and the melody of s...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

977. The Voice - Thomas Hardy

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. Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, Saying that now you are not as you were When you had changed from the one who al...
Sunday, February 01, 2015

976. That Day - Denise Levertov

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. Across s lake in Switzerland, fifty years ago, light was jousting with long lances, fencing with     broadswords back and forth a...
Sunday, January 04, 2015

975. Presentiment - Rilke

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Translated from the German by Edward Snow I’m like a flag surrounded by distances. I can sense the coming winds, and have to live the...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

974. The Pope Recently - James Kavanaugh

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. The Pope recently   Took the Bible a step further And said that a man   should not look with lust     at his own wife. Edna M...
Saturday, November 08, 2014

973. The Laboratory - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Walter Whipple Did it all happen in the laboratory? Beneath one lamp by day and billions by night? Ar...
Sunday, September 07, 2014

972. Some Advice from a Mother to Her Married Son - Judith Viorst

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. The answer to do you love me isn't, I married you, didn't I? Or, Can't we discuss this after the ballgame is through? It...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

971. I Live My Life In Widening Circles - Rilke

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Translated by Edward Snow I live my life in widening circles that drift out over the things. I may not achieve the very last, but...
Monday, July 21, 2014

970. Before We Leave - Stephen Dunn

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. Just so it’s clear— no whining on the journey. If you whine, you’ll get stuck somewhere with people like yourself. It’s an unwr...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

969. A Story That Could Be True - William Stafford

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. If you were exchanged in the cradle and your real mother died without ever telling the story then no one knows your name, and s...
Sunday, June 01, 2014

968. Memory - Rilke

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Translated by Edward Snow And you wait, you wait for that one thing that will infinitely enlarge your life; that gigantic, the stupendous, t...
Sunday, May 04, 2014

967. "I Love You" - Billy Collins

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. Early on, I noticed that you always say it to each of your children as you are getting off the phone with them just as you never fail to s...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

966. Sharks' Teeth - Kay Ryan

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. Everything contains some silence. Noise gets its zest from the small shark’s-tooth shaped fragments of rest angled in it. An hour of city ...
Saturday, March 08, 2014

965. Request - Lawrence Raab

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. For a long time I was sure it should be "Jumping Jack Flash," then the adagio from Schubert's C major Quintet, but right now...
Friday, February 07, 2014

964. You can rely on him - Yehuda Amichi

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. Happiness has no father. No happiness ever Learns from the one before, and it dies, without heirs. But sadness has a long tradition, P...
Sunday, January 26, 2014

963. When I Wrote A Little - Hayden Carruth

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When I Wrote A Little poem in the ancient mode for you 
that was musical and had old words 

in it such as would never do in 
the acad...