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Romanesque Arches

An Angel with no face embraced me and whispered through my whole body: ‘Don’t be ashamed of being human, be proud! Inside you vault open behind vault endlessly. You will never be complete, that’s how...

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Small Heart

                                –for Jan Jozef Szczepanski       The bullet that I shot at the time of the great war made a circle around the globe and struck me in the back   at the least suitable...

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Poetry: Sandra Cisneros (via Junot Diaz)

One Last Poem For Richard December 24th and we’re through again. This time for good I know because I didn’t throw you out — and anyway we waved. No shoes. No angry doors. We folded clothes and went our...

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Outtake: The Book Of Promethea

              Promethea kept stringing irresistible dreams on her magic string. She made   me a necklace that was really soothing. That is why I would like Promethea’s book to “end” here, like that:...

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Poem Or A Thought

  What does it mean to serve life, then? All those butterflies we pinned to the big board for various reasons. We stood and explained why it was better this way.  What does it take, to say yes, instead...

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What They Said: Joan Baez

  “The Nobel Prize for Literature is yet another step towards immortality for Bob Dylan. The rebellious, reclusive, unpredictable artist/composer is exactly where the Nobel Prize for Literature needs...

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Come In

            As I came to the edge of the woods, Thrush music — hark! Now if it was dusk outside, Inside it was dark. Too dark in the woods for a bird By sleight of wing To better its perch for the...

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Why People Don’t ‘Get’ Czeslaw Milosz

  ‘It took place at an evening poetry discussion at the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. It was a meeting devoted to [Miłosz’s] Second Space, which had recently appeared in English. All, and I mean...

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Radical Love Poem

Love   Love means to learn to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are only one thing among many. And whoever sees that way heals his heart, Without knowing it, from various...

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“Funeral Music,” Geoffrey Hill

from “Funeral Music” by Geoffrey Hill: 8 Not as we are but as we must appear, Contractual ghosts of pity; not as we Desire life...

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