Salamanders in the Bark (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Mulch, beside the house By the foundation, under the wet, Decaying broad oak leaves Renewing the soil, as they do ...
Mulch, beside the house By the foundation, under the wet, Decaying broad oak leaves Renewing the soil, as they do ...
The hawk swooped down falling talons first, down from the sky, out of the blue across my field of vision, ...
A small solitary island without television, phone without running water But it had the call of the loon the splash ...
There is something rare something grand something right about the graves of New Orleans not hidden flat stones carved names ...
Inside this obelisk this homage, this singular space dedicated to the first in the heart of the city forgotten stones ...
Little and big secrets silence, unsharing from shame, for protection blank spots in the telling of our story Carved off ...
Capturing minutiae slices of time carved from the flow of my life segmenting the ebb and rush of phone and ...
Down south there is a curio-shop Unknown to many men; Thereat do I intend to stop When I am south ...
1 Searock his tower above the sea, Searock he built, not ivory. Searock as well his haunted art Who gave ...
The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Cursed! be the father of the bride of the blacksmith who forged the iron for the axe with which the ...
Today the Masons are auctioning their discarded pomp: a trunk of turbans, gemmed and ostrich-plumed, and operetta costumes labeled inside ...
She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room, ...
I've dropped my Brain -- My Soul is numb -- The Veins that used to run Stop palsied -- 'tis ...
He found my Being -- set it up -- Adjusted it to place -- Then carved his name -- upon ...
Of all the Souls that stand create -- I have elected -- One -- When Sense from Spirit -- files ...
Behind faces and gestures We remain mute And spoken words heavy With what we ignore or keep silent Betray us ...
Most brightly of all burned the hair of my evening loved one: to her I send the coffin of lightest ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
I knew that James Whistler was part of the Paris scene, but I was still surprised when I found the ...
Bhaskar Roy Barman The scene lacked for the manifestation characteristic of a scene. though the scene was promised a revealing ...
Behind faces and gestures We remain mute And spoken words heavy With what we ignore or keep silent Betray us ...
Comrades, many a year and day Have fled since that glorious 9th of May When we made the charge at ...
This boy, of course, was dead, whatever that might mean. And nobly dead. I think we should feel he was ...
What I hope (when I hope) is that we'll see each other again,-- . . . and again reach the ...
I have braved, for want of wild beasts, steel cages, carved my term and nickname on bunks and rafters, lived ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
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