Stories tagged poetry

Postscript to a Letter by Flaubert

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Powers of artistic emotion, come to my aid!

The Sound of Paper

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From the earth it erupts Growing longer, stronger, as the sun rises and sets Days and nights pass, bringing the wind, the rain, the moon, the stars A place of shelter it becomes

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

Something, He Wrote

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Mayakovsky wrote...

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

Sunk

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The weight of my heart dragged me in dangerous directions.

Weeds

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

To Cancer, with love...

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Why do I love you? The monster that you are? I love you for revealing to me my strength My determination, my will My need to survive I love you for showing me the gift that is living

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

Veld fire

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The crackling inferno sweeps across the ground Devouring all in its scorching path

Ossian City

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I hear the shriek of the Laughing Lady

The Sober Boat

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I am my beloved’s Advil and she is my Aleve