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Poem

© Katha Pollitt

I lived in the first century of world wars.

Most mornings I would be more or less insane,

Peripheries

© Ruth Stone

This circle holding the afternoon sky is a lake

For summer business measured in stacked pairs

Power

© Elizabeth Daryush

The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children.

Paradise Lost: Book I

© Patrick Kavanagh

So spake th' apostate Angel, though in pain,
Vaunting aloud, but rack'd with deep despair.
And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer:

Paradise Lost: Book VII (1674)

© Patrick Kavanagh

DEscend from Heav'n Urania, by that name

If rightly thou art call'd, whose Voice divine

Photo of Miles Davis at Lennies-on-the-Turnpike, 1968

© Cornelius Eady

New York grows
Slimmer
In his absence.
I suppose

Psalm 150

© Mary Sidney Herbert

Oh, laud the Lord, the God of hosts commend,

Exalt his pow’r, advance his holiness:

Prodigal

© Richard Jones

You could drive out of this country

and attack the world with your ambition,

Playthings

© Anselm Hollo

Child, how happy you are sitting in the dust, playing with a broken twig all the morning.

I smile at your play with that little bit of a broken twig.

Prodigy

© Charles Simic

It was a small house
near a Roman graveyard.
Planes and tanks
shook its windowpanes.

Perspectives

© Ronald Stuart Thomas

They were bearded
like the sea they came
from; rang stone bells
for their stone hearers.

Psalm 55

© Mary Sidney Herbert

My God, most glad to look, most prone to hear,

An open ear, oh, let my prayer find,

Parable of the Hostages

© Louise Gluck

The Greeks are sitting on the beach

wondering what to do when the war ends. No one

pantoum: landing, 1976

dreaming the lives of the ancestors,

you awake, justly terrified of this world:

This poem is concerned with language on a very plain level.
Look at it talking to you. You look out a window
Or pretend to fidget. You have it but you don’t have it.
You miss it, it misses you. You miss each other.