By Paula Bohince
Again, an ousted child or orphan happens onto a den.
It happens then. Invitation by faun or badger to…
It happens then. Invitation by faun or badger to…
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- By Robert Browning1.My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch… - By Carol Ann DuffyAt childhood’s end, the houses petered out
into playing fields, the factory, allotments
kept, like mistresses… - By Douglas KearneyWas Him, once fini, on the beams,
prior, He's hewer of thorntree.
Could stretch tilapia and ewer,
dole … - By Rae Armantrout1
We show her Disney films
and read her fairy tales.
When she asks if magic’s real,
we say no—
not… - By Natasha SajéDo for your neck what you do for your face.
Face your neck whatever the case. Pace yourself
for 35-55,… - By UnknownLēodum is mīnum swylce him mon lāc gife;
willað hȳ hine āþecgan gif hē on þrēat cymeð.
Ungelīc is ū… - By Saddiq DzukogiThis welcome begins the waning hour
of our worship.
Loneliness will ring like a long metal horn
in … - By Saddiq DzukogiIn Jangari, beyond sama na bakwai,
in the township of spirits, I woke up
to a drunken daylight. And… - By Andrea CohenI’m tired of meaning, says the tortoise
to the hare, who agrees. The lions
and crows don’t disagree… - By Samuel GregoireMy delirium is a transformocean
Rocking me like the seven thousand waves
That brought Wangolo to Ziltik… - By Ralph Waldo EmersonThe mountain and the squirrel
Had a quarrel;
And the former called the latter ‘Little Prig.’
Bun replied… - By Norman Finkelstein#
Listen to the children
who know their way about the forest
and return with stories
which the thief… - By UnknownHeyla! We have a story about the Spear-Danes, from the old days
when they were big and their kings … - By UnknownOft him anhaga are gebideð,
metudes miltse, þeah þe he modcearig
geond lagulade longe sceolde
hreran… - By Unknownþat it apertly was apayed for profite þat he feld,
and [wrouȝt] buxumly by þe bestes wille in wise as… - By Nancy LeeIn this story the cockroach is the man,
the curtain my girlhood, the creamed
corn spilled by the mother… - By Ashley AugustIn Central America
To whistle in your home meant you were making room for bad luck
Like a man who didn… - By Jehanne DubrowYou remember the mermaid makes a deal,
her tongue evicted from her throat,
and moving is a knife-cut… - By Hannah Copleyi
Otherwise known as peewit, otherwise known
as tew-it, otherwise known as Vanellus vanellus
of the…