Five Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Five Poems
May 1, 2019
“My arm is so brown and so beautiful,” is a thought I haveas I’m about to turn off the lamp and go to sleep.I look at it a moment in the soft glow, and see it, briefly,as though it belonged to someone else. A reddishkind of brown, like a toasted almo
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Fanny Burney, Grandmother of the English Novel
The Paris Review
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Fanny Burney, Grandmother of the English Novel
Nov 6, 2019
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THE BLACK SPIDER Part Five
PEARL
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THE BLACK SPIDER Part Five
Jan 31, 2020
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Five Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Five Poems
Mar 1, 2019
If we don’t have to bring honesty into this,why bring it, or that’s at least what Ithink the question was, though what I moreremember is how it kept breaking—the question did—the way waves do,touching shore (one, that I shall be punished, two, that t
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Two Poems by Mary Szybist
The Paris Review
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Two Poems by Mary Szybist
Sep 15, 2019
Like an alarm I can’t shut off, the summer.Like air raid sirens stuck onthe world is burning, the world is burning& I can’t stop it. Can’t stop ash from the reddening sky falling dry onto grass, onto cloverlit purple at their tips. Mouth level.My che
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Echo and Narcissus
New Philosopher
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Echo and Narcissus
Mar 7, 2022
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Two Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Two Poems
Nov 1, 2018
In a hotel in a small town in Norfolk I am listening to someonethrowing glass bottles into a metal bin: toss-shatter, toss-shatter.There are no other sounds; it’s a quiet afternoonbut the one tossing them has a sense of rhythm and I havea sense that
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The Machine Stops
PEARL
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The Machine Stops
Dec 28, 2018
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The Epic Of Gilgamesh
The American Poetry Review
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The Epic Of Gilgamesh
Jan 1, 2020
My friends, who can reach heaven? The monster bellows like a river swollen with flood.Many are consumed in his fiery breath. My friends, who can reach heaven? Let us ask the mountain for a sign.Let us cut the spirits from the cedars. My friends, who
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Five Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Five Poems
Sep 1, 2021
You don’t understand, he says, again,from the backseat of the car, my son, who only months ago, could not fallasleep before whispering, first, some secret in my ear. When I lookin the rearview, he turns toward peaks in the distance, and when I ask hi
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Two Poems by Phillip B. Williams
The Paris Review
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Two Poems by Phillip B. Williams
Dec 15, 2017
The masters are yet dead. Wanting to be human,I tried to rewrite The Waste Land. The canon’s reachcasts ruinous light. The masters’ pens breachthis page where, above, my own hand spectates. Babylonrisen, exorcism in reverse, whose nature upended now?
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from BLACK PASTORAL
The American Poetry Review
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from BLACK PASTORAL
Nov 1, 2023
somewheres, some lifetimes ago I have run so far, so long.There is nowhere I haven’t beenBut here, in this field, a bodyLength from the ragged brinkThat gives way to forest.I collapsed here, the thin, hard slipOf me whittled at both ends.I want badly
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from 36 WAYS OF WRITING A VIETNAMESE POEM
The American Poetry Review
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from 36 WAYS OF WRITING A VIETNAMESE POEM
Feb 28, 2023
You can’t go far wrong with violence.You’ll go far, my boy.You’ll cross oceans, my boy. Start with the Fall, go back or forth,Through bombs or boats,Across all the killing fields of thought. You can’t make it upBecause it’s all yours—by blood.By righ
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Fredericksburg’s Wounded Warriors
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History
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Fredericksburg’s Wounded Warriors
Jul 11, 2023
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Collins Ferry Landing
The American Poetry Review
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Collins Ferry Landing
Jul 1, 2020
for my father Only rivers bottom out like this.Only rivers bottom out with this kind of conviction.Not humans, or, at least, not humans asindisputably human as you were,trapped in consciousness’s surplus, exilic,animalized absurdity, writhing in its
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A Close Encounter With A Lion
African Hunting Gazette
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A Close Encounter With A Lion
May 25, 2023
My Dear Baker Mrs Oswell and myself thoroughly enjoyed our stay with you and your charming wife in June. It was a true pleasure for us both to renew old times and friendship. We trust that your trip to India will be a pleasant one, and the ship you a
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Notes From A Nothing
Guernica Magazine
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Notes From A Nothing
Feb 14, 2020
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Bard In The Woods
Great Walks
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Bard In The Woods
Nov 30, 2020
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New Poetry by Indigenous Women
Literary Hub
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New Poetry by Indigenous Women
Feb 13, 2018
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Equinox
SFX
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Equinox
May 18, 2022
In this strange world, where identities change with the rising and setting of the sun, supernatural forces are at work – and they’re causing trouble… St Leonars prison was an appropriately imposing building. It rose out of the surrounding shacks and
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Katharine Kilalea
The Paris Review
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Katharine Kilalea
Dec 15, 2017
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Five Poems
The American Poetry Review
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Five Poems
Nov 1, 2020
The American linden sways nonplussed by the storm,a bounce here, a shimmy there, just shaking like musicleft over from the night’s end wafting into the avenues before sleep.I remember once walking down Clinton Street, and singingthat line returning,
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Two Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
The Paris Review
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Two Poems by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Jun 15, 2018
And, after the explosion, made spheres sing,A pure expression of pure poetry,Like rising rain or a nation with noFlag—. Something that whispers as the airDoes just before the lightning comes. A pureExpression of the breaks in the blank lakesOn Neptun
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Dark Tales
Writing Magazine
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Dark Tales
Dec 2, 2021
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Nick Laird
The Paris Review
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Nick Laird
Dec 15, 2017
I was trying to write like an adult.I had children.I was at the end of something. As I waited at my table by the window for the coffee,I saw that the sirocco had depositeda scrim of dust on the sill overnight,and it was the dark red of powdered blood
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Press Ganged!
Classic Boat
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Press Ganged!
May 1, 2020
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Earthlings
Guernica Magazine
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Earthlings
Apr 9, 2021
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New Poetry by Indigenous Women
Literary Hub
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New Poetry by Indigenous Women
Dec 18, 2018
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Perfect Prose II
Great Walks
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Perfect Prose II
May 15, 2020
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The Woman At Home
New Philosopher
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The Woman At Home
Jan 29, 2019
From the journals of Samuel P. Perceval,bookseller: Covent Garden, Dec. 15, 1974 This spring, I found a curious letter sewn into the hem of a coat belonging to my late great-aunt Florence. Crudely enveloped in what appeared to be a page torn from
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