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“Go Youth” [by James Tate]
Go Youth I was in a dreamstate and this was causing a problemwith the traffic. I felt lonely, like I’d missed the boat,or I’d found the boat and it was deserted. In the middleof…
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Four Short Poems by Howard Nemerov
The God of This World He smiles to see his children, born to sin,Digging those foxholes there are no atheists in. A Sacrificed Author ‘Father’, he cried, after the critics’ chewing,‘Forgive them, for they…
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Duke Rhino Speaks [by Mitch Sisskind]
The Words of Duke Rhino 1. Never in his life had he said ipso factoNor quid est demonstratum had heEver spoken but one time he said viz.It was after a night of smelt fishingWhen we were just…
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The New York School Diaspora (New Series) Part Three: Joseph Richie [by Angela Ball]
Dewpoint Hold this that has grown It takes to your hand As if learning in the ways of tension Through the acolytes of water But since the sodden beams Can for you resume Overwhelm…
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“Silence” [by Marianne Moore]
Silence My father used to say,“Superior people never make long visits,have to be shown Longfellow’s graveor the glass flowers at Harvard.Self-reliant like the cat—that takes its prey to privacy,the mouse’s limp tail hanging like…
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Questions of Travel with John Kenney and Elizabeth Bishop [by Nin Andrews]
There are two kinds of folks in this world, my father used to say. Those who like to travel—they like to move fast, the faster the better, like your mother, and those who want…
