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| 4352. | Emptying Town by Nick Flynn | | I want to erase your footprints
from my walls. Each pillow
is thick with your reasons. Omens
fill the sidewalk below my window: a woman
in a pa... |
| 4353. | Cartoon Physics, Part 1 by Nick Flynn | | Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know
that the universe is ever-expanding,
inexorably pushing into the vacuum, galaxies
swallowed by galaxies,... |
| 4354. | Twenty-Pound Stone by Nick Flynn | | It nests in the hollow of my pelvis, I carry it with both hands, as if
offering my stomach, as if it were pulling me forward.
At night t... |
| 4355. | Degrees Of Gray In Philipsburg by Richard Hugo | | You might come here Sunday on a whim.
Say your life broke down. The last good kiss
you had was years ago. You walk these streets
laid out by the in... |
| 4356. | Death Of The Kapowsin Tavern by Richard Hugo | | I can't ridge it back again from char.
Not one board left. Only ash a cat explores
and shattered glass smoked black and strung
about from the explo... |
| 4357. | Chaplinesque by Hart Crane | | We will make our meek adjustments,
Contented with such random consolations
As the wind deposits
In slithered and too ample pockets.
For we can s... |
| 4358. | The Great Western Plains by Hart Crane | | The little voices of the prairie dogs
Are tireless . . .
They will give three hurrahs
Alike to stage, equestrian, and pullman,
And all unsting... |
| 4359. | The Pig by Christopher Smart | | In ev'ry age, and each profession,
Men err the most by prepossession;
But when the thing is clearly shown,
And fairly stated, fully known,
We ... |
| 4360. | Where's the Poker? by Christopher Smart | | The poker lost, poor Susan storm'd,
And all the rites of rage perform'd;
As scolding, crying, swearing, sweating,
Abusing, fidgetting, and frett... |
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