Last Rites
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"I was trying
to get the water hot.
I was unwrapping
...
Mother of Letters
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"For hours my mother hovered over us,
her hand gently guiding mine,...
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Tarragon, Are You a Wild Boar?
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Tarrargon, are you a wild boar?
My friend, lemon zest, has not...
Subway Ride, Spring 2002
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"The train moved me, clothes kept me seated.
I watched the...
Second Attempt Crossing
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"For Chino
...
A Poem Called Day
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Day is carved in marble, a man reclining,
a naked giant suffering.
...
original [sin]
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"In ancient Greece, for all her heroes, for Medea ... water meant death.
— Jesmyn Ward,...
On Utopia Parkway
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Between Grand Central Parkway and Little Bay,
from One Hundred Sixty-Ninth and...
On Peripheries of the Imperium
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"i
Eye of the hurricane the Battery, the Hudson
breached, millions...
Nowhere Near Hudson’s Bay
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Toggle me up
on one last vanity flight
half drunk on a...
My Kingdom for a Murmur of Fanfare
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"It’s common to live properly, to pretend
you don’t feel heat or...
The Most Expensive
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Figured marry for money the stainlessness of it
thermostatic shower simulates but...
Mindscreen
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"See, it’s a kind of crime scene,
as if the mind were...
The Man with the Blue Guitar
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"His blue guitar is lacquered so brightly when he leans
a certain...
Low Impact Fat Burning Workout
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"How does one grow the cojones to celebrate a Fudgsicle?
I’ll tell...
Jim Limber the Adopted Mulatto Son of Jefferson Davis Was Another...
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"They put me in a dead boy’s clothes dead Joseph
Except...
Instead of Bad News about a Person I Love
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"I got a letter through the post decreeing my sainthood.
Beatified, I...
Inhospitable
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Each time the babies came
I knew they would be gone
by...
I’m on the boating lake with Sean
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"I’m gently rowing and the birds look sewn
to the surface of...
The Glens of Cithaeron
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Till the gold fields of stiff wheat
Cry “We are ripe, reap us!”
—Ted...
Ghazal for Becoming Your Own Country
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"After Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s “Self Stones Country” photographs
...
Future Perfect
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"The Linguisticator meets you at Carrefour.
Un vrai galant, he buys you...
from feeld
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"i
thees wite skirtes / & orang ...
Free Radical
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Before Gilgamesh invented
the kaleidoscope and Galileo
the Rubik’s cube, before the
...
Fish Carcass
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"fish carcass
say hello to pork rind
+ arborio rice
while castaway...
An Example
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Where can the dead hope
to stash some part
of themselves, if...
English Mole
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"To push and push with raw pink claws like
hands of shin....
El Salvador
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Salvador, if I return on a summer day, so humid my thumb
...
An Egg Island Equinox
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"There is no radical shift of light
or redwings calling areas of...
Diagram of How I Felt When You Told Me I Look...
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Source:
...
Diagram of a Memory
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Source:
...
Despite My Efforts Even My Prayers Have Turned into Threats
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Holy father I can’t pretend
I’m not afraid to see you again
...
“Come Godard, come, here, Godard, here …”
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"A cento
...
Camera Eulogia
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Herodotus says the king made a bowl to leave behind
the memory...
The Brooklyn–Battery Bridge in the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"You might make a choice between what descends
with these tiles lined...
Angel Nafis
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"After Monica McClure
...
What Jimmy Taught Me
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"To be born yellow into a household where the black man rules...
The Wife-Woman
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Maker-of-sevens in the scheme of things
From earth to star;
Thy cycle...
Translation
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"We trekked into a far country,
My friend and I.
Our deeper...
Satan Says
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"I am locked in a little cedar box
with a picture of...
Rendezvous With A Harp
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"It was too big to take on the subway
so she came...
Not Another Anthem
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"As soon as I step into the tunnel that will take me...
Don’t Cheapen Yourself
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"You look sleazy tonight
ma said.
Cheap, I said.
I’m doin cheap.
...
August, Los Angeles, Lullaby
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"The pure amnesia of her face,
newborn. I looked so far
into...
At the Carnival
This is one of the beautiful and best quality poems in our collection.
"Gay little Girl-of-the-Diving-Tank,
I desire a name for you,
Nice, as a...