Counting Sheep (Russell Edson Poem)
A scientist has a test tube full of sheep. He wonders if he should try to shrink a pasture for ...
A scientist has a test tube full of sheep. He wonders if he should try to shrink a pasture for ...
A man is bringing a cup of coffee to his face, tilting it to his mouth. It's historical, he thinks. ...
Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is really ...
'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
Because the road to our house is a back road, meadowlands punctuated by gravel quarry and lumberyard, there are unexpected ...
Perhaps they do not go so far As we who stay, suppose -- Perhaps come closer, for the lapse Of ...
Impossibility, like Wine Exhilarates the Man Who tastes it; Possibility Is flavorless -- Combine A Chance's faintest Tincture And in ...
Because that you are going And never coming back And I, however absolute, May overlook your Track -- Because that ...
Over the fence -- Strawberries -- grow -- Over the fence -- I could climb -- if I tried, I ...
Is the current rate of global warming a serious and cogent warning? Do we need to think about the fact ...
What a weekend, it certainly defied all the pundits' trends, the 'World Game' French were trashed by Versace and petulance, ...
I thought my father was far too fat - eagerly I told him so, if he was offended it didn't ...
The last unicorn was never free to chose another ending, the plaintive melody entrained with sweet orchestral strains describing it ...
She came at night, her gentle hands defused the ticking bomb that was his brain, she soothed the pain and ...
From all I've done and all I've said let them not seek to find who I've been. An obstacle stood ...
Kimos, son of Menedoros, a young Greek-Italian, devotes his life to amusing himself, like most young men in Greater Greece ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Comes the time when it's later and onto your table the headwaiter puts the bill, and very soon after rings ...
As one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before: Who finds it, in a little time, Grow ...
"DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?" I said. "They should, by rights, Give them a chance - because, you know, ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
The Vanishing They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok you would never see him doing such a thing, ...
You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wine... -Jacques Crickillon You are the bread and ...
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