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| 4481. | Pastoral by Kenneth Patchen | | The Dove walks with sticky feet
Upon the green crowns of the almond tree,
Its feathers smeared over with warmth
Like honey
That dips lazily down i... |
| 4482. | Saturday Night in the Parthenon by Kenneth Patchen | | Tiny green birds skate over the surface of the room.
A naked girl prepares a basin with steaming water,
And in the corner away from the hearth, the ... |
| 4483. | The Temple by Kenneth Patchen | | To leave the earth was my wish, and no will stayed my rising.
Early, before sun had filled the roads with carts
Conveying folk to weddings and to mu... |
| 4485. | The Portent by Herman Melville | | Hanging from the beam,
Slowly swaying (such the law),
Gaunt the shadow on the green,
Shenandoah!
The cut is on the crown
(Lo, John Brown),
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| 4486. | Praying Drunk by Andrew Hudgins | | Our Father who art in heaven, I am drunk.
Again. Red wine. For which I offer thanks.
I ought to start with praise, but praise
comes hard to me. I s... |
| 4487. | The Unpromised Land, Montgomery, Alabama by Andrew Hudgins | | Despite the noon sun shimmering on Court Street,
each day I leave my desk, and window-shop,
waste time, and use my whole lunch hour to stroll
the r... |
| 4488. | The Prisoners Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa | | Open little box
We kiss your bottom and cover
Keyhole and key
The whole world lies crumpted in you
It resembles everything
Except itself
N... |
| 4489. | Anne Pennington by Vasko Popa | | Until her last breath she enlarges
Her Oxford house
Built in Slavonic
Vowels and consonants
She polishes the corner-stones
Until their Anglo-Sa... |
| 4490. | Night Hymns on Lake Nipigon by Duncan Campbell Scott | | Here in the midnight, where the dark mainland and island
Shadows mingle in shadow deeper, profounder,
Sing we the hymns of the churches, while the d... |
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