Thursday, April 24, 2025

1178. The Dance - William Carlos Williams, 1944

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  In Breughel’s great picture, The Kermess, the dancers go round  they go round and around, the squeal and the blare and the tweedle of b...

1177. Seance - Wislawa Szymborska

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  Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh Happenstance reveals its tricks. It produces, by sleight of hand, ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

1176. Late Abed - Archibald MacLeish

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Ah, but a good wife! To lie late in a warm bed (warm where she was) with your life suspended like a music in the head, hearing her foot in t...
Monday, March 10, 2025

1175. Psalm - Richard Wilbur

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  Give thanks for all things On the plucked lute, and likewise The harp of ten strings. Have the lifted horn Greatly blare, and pronoun...
Saturday, March 08, 2025

1174. Veterinarians - A. R. Zari

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because their patients cannot tell them what’s wrong they say veterinarians are the noblest doctors they say that when he died St. Augusti...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

1173. On Reading A Biography Of George Washington - Eloise Klein Healy

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There is no cherry tree. There is mud and blood and winter. There are letters and orders to his farm manager written by candle light detail...
Friday, February 14, 2025

1172. Like This - Mewling Jalaluddin Rumi

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Translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne If anyone asks you how the perfect satisfaction of all our sexual wanting will look, lift your f...