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| 4941. | Before Sleep by Catherine Anderson | | I was in love with anatomy
the symmetry of my body
poised for flight,
the heights it would take
over parents, lovers, a keen
riding over truth an... |
| 4942. | It Takes a While to Disappear by Ralph Angel | | The city purrs, it hums along, the morning hardly risen.
A well-dressed drunk smears her finger across a doorman’s lips and whispers.
Someone stum... |
| 4943. | Rondeau at the Train Stop by Erin Belieu | | It bothers me: the genital smell of the bay
drifting toward me on the T stop, the train
circling the city like a dingy, year-round
Christmas displa... |
| 4945. | Hamlet Off-Stage: Snail Peels Off by D. C. Berry | | For quick mental hygiene, the snail's my white
mobile clinic, Dr. Hoodoo inside.
Seriously. The snail's my man. He's shy,
shows speedy patience and... |
| 4946. | California Plush by Frank Bidart | | The only thing I miss about Los Angeles
is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and
radio blaring
bearing right into the center of the... |
| 4947. | Self-Portrait, 1969 by Frank Bidart | | He's still young--; thirty, but looks younger--
or does he?... In the eyes and cheeks, tonight,
turning in the mirror, he saw his mother,--
puffy; ... |
| 4948. | A Black Man Talks of Reaping by Arna Bontemps | | I have sown beside all waters in my day.
I planted deep, within my heart the fear
that wind or fowl would take the grain away.
I planted safe again... |
| 4949. | Metonymy as an Approach to a Real World by William Bronk | | Whether what we sense of this world
is the what of this world only, or the what
of which of several possible worlds
--which what?--something of wh... |
| 4950. | The Sheep by Ellis Parker Butler | | The Sheep adorns the landscape rural
And is both singular and plural—
It gives grammarians the creeps
To hear one say, “A flock of sheeps.”
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