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Still Life

By Sharon Olds

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DATE TITLE POETS
09/20/2012  Listen  Spring and Fall  Gerard Manley Hopkins
 
09/19/2012  Listen  meditating upon the meaning of the line "clams on the halfshell and rollerskates" in the song "good times" by chic  D. A. Powell
 
09/17/2012  Listen  Third Avenue in Sunlight  Anthony Hecht
 
09/16/2012  Listen  Final Autumn  Annie Finch
 
09/15/2012  Listen  The Seekonk Woods  Galway Kinnell
 
09/14/2012  Listen  God's Grandeur  Gerard Manley Hopkins
 
09/13/2012  Listen  To Autumn  John Keats
 
09/12/2012  Listen  to where  David Ferry
 
09/10/2012  Listen  Anniversary  Marie Ponsot
 
09/09/2012  Listen  The Nineteenth Century as a Song  Robert Hass
 
09/08/2012  Listen  Mapping the Genome  Michael Symmons Roberts
 
09/07/2012  Listen  Prayer's End  Brooklyn Copeland
 
09/06/2012  Listen  Valéry as Dictator  Amiri Baraka
 
09/05/2012  Listen  Here  Samuel Menashe
 
09/04/2012  Listen  Bantams in Pine Woods  Wallace Stevens
 
09/03/2012  Listen  The Shield of Achilles  W. H. Auden
 
09/02/2012  Listen  “For you: anthophilous, lover of flowers”  Reginald Dwayne Betts
 
09/01/2012  Listen  Animalistic Hymn  Edith Södergran
 
08/31/2012  Listen  Love (III)  George Herbert
 
08/30/2012  Listen  Women in Labor  Mary Ruefle
 
08/29/2012  Listen  Macular Hole  Catherine Wagner
 
08/28/2012  Listen  Summer Garden  Louise Glück
 
08/27/2012  Listen  Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves  Gerard Manley Hopkins
 
08/26/2012  Listen  Annabel Lee  Edgar Allan Poe
 
08/25/2012  Listen  $$$Expensive Magic$$$  Cedar Sigo
 
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Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.

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