Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Uneasy Rider by Diane Wakoski

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Uneasy Rider   Falling in love with a mustache is like saying you can fall in love with the way a man polishes his shoes                 whi...
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

Song for a Dark Girl by Langston Hughes

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Song for a Dark Girl  Way Down South in Dixie        (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover        To a cross roads tree.   ...
Monday, July 5, 2021

Eavesdropping on Adam and Eve by Andrea Cohen

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Eavesdropping on Adam and Eve   It didn’t get interesting until after they’d left. An extended vacation , Adam called it. R& D , Eve sai...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

The Heaven of Animals by James Dickey

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The Heaven of Animals   Here they are. The soft eyes open.    If they have lived in a wood It is a wood. If they have lived on plains It is ...
Saturday, July 3, 2021

American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin [But there never was a black male hysteria] by Terrance Hayes

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American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin    But there never was a black male hysteria Breaking & entering wearing glee & sadn...
Friday, July 2, 2021

Vespers by Louise Glück

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Vespers   In your extended absence, you permit me use of earth, anticipating some return on investment, principally regarding the tomato pla...
Thursday, July 1, 2021

Shelley by Galway Kinnell

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Shelley   When I was twenty the one true free spirit I had heard of was Shelley, Shelley who wrote tracts advocating atheism, free love, the...