Stories tagged sestina

Losing Track (after Denise Levertov)

by Karen, Apr 07, 2010
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To know the ways you will be with me: Black square of your back as you push off-shore. Black square of the pier. Some great, dried dream of before.

In Memoriam

by Linda Simoni-Wastila, Sep 09, 2011
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...even unbelieving prayer muttered with quiet resigned breaths can not foretell or forestall stains...

July: A Sestina Story

by Michelle McEwen, Jan 08, 2017
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& jazz is juicy sometimes when it wants to be.

Another Server Calls me Young Lady, a sestina

by Tina Barry, Aug 23, 2021
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Oh, you whose lips form the cervical O of a doughnut, who trembles as I near.