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| 3341. | The Partial Explanation by Charles Simic | | Seems like a long time
Since the waiter took my order.
Grimy little luncheonette,
The snow falling outside.
Seems like it has grown darker
Sinc... |
| 3342. | Private Eye by Charles Simic | | To find clues where there are none,
That's my job now, I said to the
Dictionary on my desk. The world beyond
My window has grown illegible,
And so... |
| 3343. | To The One Upstairs by Charles Simic | | Boss of all bosses of the universe.
Mr. know-it-all, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller,
And whatever else you're good at.
Go ahead, shuffle your zeros to... |
| 3344. | How To Psalmodize by Charles Simic | | 1. The Poet
Someone awake when others are sleeping,
Asleep when others are awake.
An illiterate who signs everything with an X.
A man about to b... |
| 3345. | Silent Poem by Robert Francis | | backroad leafmold stonewall chipmunk
underbrush grapevine woodchuck shadblow
woodsmoke cowbarn honeysuckle woodpile
sawhorse bucksaw outhouse we... |
| 3346. | Paper Men To Air Hopes And Fears by Robert Francis | | The first speaker said
Fear fire. Fear furnaces
Incinerators, the city dump
The faint scratch of a match.
The second speaker said
Fear water. ... |
| 3347. | Sheep by Robert Francis | | From where I stand the sheep stand still
As stones against the stony hill.
The stones are gray
And so are they.
And both are weatherworn and r... |
| 3348. | In Memoriam: Four Poets by Robert Francis | | 1
Searock his tower above the sea,
Searock he built, not ivory.
Searock as well his haunted art
Who gave to plunging hawks his hearts.
2
H... |
| 3349. | Animals Are Passing From Our Lives by Philip Levine | | It's wonderful how I jog
on four honed-down ivory toes
my massive buttocks slipping
like oiled parts with each light step.
I'm to market. I can ... |
| 3350. | A Sleepless Night by Philip Levine | | April, and the last of the plum blossoms
scatters on the black grass
before dawn. The sycamore, the lime,
the struck pine inhale
the first pal... |
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