Stories tagged poem

A or B

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... we lose ourselves in the animal noises...

Wheatfield with Cypresses. van Gogh

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There's no sky like that with twisting clouds shot up into by cypress trees that are so like dark green flames leaping out of the earth as if a dark green oily pool were on fire underground, and this was all that could escape, was its essence.

Provided

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A man bows his head and crosses his chest before crossing the street and the rain keeps falling on his bare blue shirt and on top of his head The taxis will not stop The light’s still red as the man waits for the sign of the hands

Space was playing my favorite music

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I ran around with my net / Frantically, with that net / While I should have danced with the bees.

Processes

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How to Boil Water How to Cook an Egg How to Eat How to Think How to Love How to Die

The Semaphore of Civilization

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We're alone and besieged / by badness.

fire and ice

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“Who says?” she purred in reply “They all do” he countered smiling , chewing on an ice cube “All of them, huh?” She leaned forward, raising a wicked left eyebrow and whispered, “And just who are they, anyway?”

Ocean Front Epitaph

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Winter— walking on the beach, the watery air quenching my arid lungs, I spy a seagull on an icy branch of a palmetto tree. He fluffs his wings. He pecks a branch. He moves about like a lonely man. He notices me…

Tablecloth Dresses: Song

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I see you’re wearing your tablecloth top again your tablecloth dress to impress me and distress me with all your tablecloth positions for your luncheons on the grass with all your famous friends who found you on your ass Yes we can

The Death of Sherwood Anderson

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like the Bible in / Mauritania, like a mouse in a vial of ammonia, / like a retired coal miner on vacation in the Alps

obverse

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where love and hate stand slow-dancing in the shadows

Weeds

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It was the third day that she looked Across his naked face...

The Theory of Color

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The story of the black pen drawing a dark hole makes everything seem so elaborate and obscure. Or even a seven-year-old leading police on a wild car chase to avoid church. Or naming a new band Fuchsia, which looks like the beginning of an

Non-Renewable

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we wipe the blood of our progress from our hands.

Low On the Hog

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Living lower on the hog than anticipated lower on the hog than previously expected lower on the hog than desired Living on the underside of the hog belly pretty much bouncing on the ground beneath the aforementioned hog belly Living clos