By Peter O’Leary
Blood-gushered mountainside a brass parapegma of noon
glares behind: gore of hides. Beasts all slain.…
glares behind: gore of hides. Beasts all slain.…
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- By Maggie Queeneylaurel tree, limbs bent and twined into crown heifer bank of marsh reeds,
handful lashed into pipes, … - By SapphoDeathless Aphrodite of the spangled mind,
child of Zeus, who twists lures, I beg you
do not break with… - By Xiao Yue Shanthere is no room left for disbelief, we have unsang
the songs. have stripped stones of magic. we gave… - By Corey Van Landinghamwas, according to Virgil, always a fickle, unstable thing. Woman. Wyf. Merger of wife and man. To indicate…
- By H.D.He and I sought together,
over the spattered table,
rhymes and flowers,
gifts for a name.
He said, … - By H.D.Over and back,
the long waves crawl
and track the sand with foam;
night darkens and the sea
takes on… - By H.D.I know not what to do,
my mind is reft:
is song's gift best?
is love's gift loveliest?
I know not what to… - By Aria AberOver Skype, I try to document my mother’s
bald-shaved youth—she has a surplus in truths,
and science… - By OvidSome are transformed just once
And live their whole lives after in that shape.
Others have a facility… - By Shanta LeeHunger like her mama
Most strong in White gaze as in
a Cowbird’s flirtation
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- By Ruth AwadDays of rain. The drey outside my window would keel
and the wind would plunder. My heart was valent
… - By Trish Salahi.
Dog. The time you take home, the time you take away from home.
The insistence, the instance worried… - By Richie HofmannA dolphin fell in love with me.
Probably because of my looks—
people always said, What a pretty boy … - By Ladan OsmanSomeone tells me the earth and everything in it
will belong to me if I catch the horizon before sundown… - By Anne CarsonI. GERYON
Geryon was a monster everything about him was red
Put his snoutsnout This image, suggestive… - By Anne CarsonSomehow Geryon made it to adolescence.
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Then he met Herakles and the kingdoms … - By Anne CarsonEventually Geryon learned to write.
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His mother's friend Maria gave him a beautiful… - By Janet Loxley LewisWe have forgotten Paris, and his fate.
We have not much inquired
If Menelaus from the Trojan gate
Returning… - By L. M. RiveraWhen the home is no more
When the mother's negative light goes also
When solitude rips the door …