By Umberto Saba
Man, your misfortune’s bottomless.
You’re too much and too little. You survey
with envy (though you think…
You’re too much and too little. You survey
with envy (though you think…
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- By Kashawn TaylorI walk down a dim hall, and appreciate the coruscating layer of wax on the floor(how I could sleep there…
- By Zach CzaiaI'm sorry it wasn't till the end of the year
that I asked you to write about yourselves. You filled pages… - By Randall MannFirst I want to thank you all for coming,
for standing so patiently in line.
I know these are difficult… - By Lis SanchezAt the gangway, our demand was a straw pava.
We wore our demand jauntily cocked across our skull.
So what… - By Karl KnightsIt’s Boxing Day and I’m nearly ten and a half.
I got the camouflaged Action Man for Christmas.
I told … - By Anne CarsonIf I were an early person
I'd look for the limits of human wisdom
by going to sacred oak trees
or the local… - By Corey Van Landinghamwas, according to Virgil, always a fickle, unstable thing. Woman. Wyf. Merger of wife and man. To indicate…
- By Li-Young LeeSad is the man who is asked for a story
and can’t come up with one.
His five-year-old son waits in … - By K. IverYou’ve never seen a lilac in Mississippi.
Backstage you wear lotion laced with
its chemical imitation… - By J. V. CunninghamPlato, despair!
We prove by norms
How numbers bear
Empiric forms,
How random wrong
Will average right… - By Jos Charlesits a secrete
the grls speeching mye hole /
inn 2 the lindens … - By Afrizal MalnaIt’s a shame this poem’s already been erased when
I go to read it. Like humid air that tugs
at my arm… - By James CagneyI come from the kidnapped,
the assaulted—
my country’tis of reparations as in-store credit
backordered… - By Adrian MatejkaSpike Lee is so small I didn’t even
see him at first, surrounded
by Black Expo goers like a gumdrop… - By J. V. CunninghamThere is no stillness in this wood.
The quiet of this clearing
Is the denial of my hearing
The sounds… - By J. V. CunninghamYou are the problem I propose,
My dear, the text my musings glose:
I call you for convenience love.
… - By James K. BaxterThe wish to climb a ladder to the loft
Of God dies hard in us. The angels Jacob saw
Were not himself… - By Lorine NiedeckerNothing worth noting
except an Andromeda
with quadrangular shoots—
the boots
of the people
wet inside… - By Lateef McLeodAs a child I knew I was
good,
adorable,
and safe.
Because that was what my parents told me,
that was…