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| 2331. | After Prayers, Lie Cold by C. S. Lewis | | Arise my body, my small body, we have striven
Enough, and He is merciful; we are forgiven.
Arise small body, puppet-like and pale, and go,
White... |
| 2332. | An Expostulation by C. S. Lewis | | Against too many writers of science fiction
Why did you lure us on like this,
Light-year on light-year, through the abyss,
Building (as though... |
| 2333. | Prelude to Space by C. S. Lewis | | An Epithaliamium
So Man, grown vigorous now,
Holds himself ripe to breed,
Daily devises how
To ejaculate his seed
And boldly fertilize
The bla... |
| 2334. | The Little Orphan by Edgar Albert Guest | | The crowded street his playground is, a patch of blue his sky;
A puddle in a vacant lot his sea where ships pass by:
Poor little orphan boy of five,... |
| 2335. | Colors Passing Through Us by Marge Piercy | | Purple as tulips in May, mauve
into lush velvet, purple
as the stain blackberries leave
on the lips, on the hands,
the purple of ripe grapes
... |
| 2336. | You Ask Why Sometimes I Say Stop by Marge Piercy | | You ask why sometimes I say stop
why sometimes I cry no
while I shake with pleasure.
What do I fear, you ask,
why don't I always want to come
and... |
| 2337. | To the Pay Toilet by Marge Piercy | | You strop my anger, especially
when I find you in restaurant or bar
and pay for the same liquid, coming and going.
In bus depots and airports and t... |
| 2338. | The Seven Of Pentacles by Marge Piercy | | Under a sky the color of pea soup
she is looking at her work growing away there
actively, thickly like grapevines or pole beans
as things grow in t... |
| 2339. | Winter Promises by Marge Piercy | | Tomatoes rosy as perfect baby's buttocks,
eggplants glossy as waxed fenders,
purple neon flawless glistening
peppers, pole beans fecund and fast... |
| 2340. | Implications of One Plus One by Marge Piercy | | Sometimes we collide, tectonic plates merging,
continents shoving, crumpling down into the molten
veins of fire deep in the earth and raising
to... |
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