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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineWork Ethic

    By Heidi Williamson
    You’re fifteen and nowhere in a town on the edge of pitiful lands stripped of fruit. The burger van’…
  • Poem
    By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Under a spreading chestnut-tree
        ⁠The village smithy stands;
    The smith, a mighty man is he,
        With large…
  • Poem
    By Sharon Olds
    But I love the I, steel I-beam
    that my father sold. They poured the pig iron
    into the mold, and it fed out slowly,
    a bending jelly in the bath, and it hardened,
    Bessemer, blister, crucible, alloy, and he
    marketed it, and bought bourbon, and...
  • Poem
    By James Joyce
    He travels after a winter sun,
    Urging the cattle along a cold red road,
    Calling to them, a voice they …
  • Poem
    By Angela Jackson
    1.   Yellow paint on brush.
        Black body leaning in wind.
        Mustached man. Father.
    2.  House yellow…
  • Poem
    By Bertrand N. O. Walker
    For ages long, my people have been
          Dwellers in this land;
    For ages viewed these mountains,
          Loved these…
  • Poem
    By Mike Doughty
    He was jailed for cruelty to insects, and his agent wasn’t answering the phone, so he stayed awake in the cell all night, pictures jumping around his head of the cops and the blowdryer they took as evidence. He used...
  • Poem
    By David Roderick
    I wear a flower in my lapel.
    I like the sweetness of its lie in my nose.
    A carnation, the fool’s flower,

    its heart a wilting empire.
    In late-night editing sessions,
    I imagine I’m planting flowers

    in the sockets of eyes. Whatever helps
    me reach our rigor...
  • Poem
    By Pat Mora
    Buenos dias and hasta lue$o in boardrooms and strategy sessions, Where are your grateful holiday smiles bilinguals? I've given you a voice, let you in
    to hear old friends tell old jokes,
    Stop flinching, Drink eggnog, Hum alon,
    Not carols we hear
    whimpering
    children too...
  • Poem
    By John Tickhill
    In a sesone of somere þat souerayne ys of alle,
    Þat was þe myry monþ of May when many myrthys spryng,
    Þe sonne ys somnore and syre and sendyth tyl vs doun,
    And byddyth vs bisy for to be oure bodys for to glade;
    Man for to myrth hym in al maner wys,
    Bestys for to buske ham on bentys tyl abyde,
  • Poem
    By Terrance Hayes
    Broken Earth
    Year of Release: 1939
    Running Time: 11 minutes
    Cast: Clarence Muse and unidentified boy

    I am the sick boy in the shack when the camera opens
    On the sunrise and wispy silhouettes of the plow
    And the fool mule and my father working a...
  • Poem
    By Arthur Sze
    A woman moves through a Cloud Hands position,
                            holding and rotating

    an invisible globe—thud, shattering glass, moan,
                            horn blast—so many

    worlds to this world—two men dipnet
                            sockeye salmon

    at the mouth of a river—from a rooftop, a seagull
                            squawks and cries;

    a woman moves...
  • Poem
    By Unknown
    Swarte smekyd smepes smateryd wyth smoke.
    dryue me to deth wyth den of here dyntes.
    Swech noys on nyghtes ne herd men neuer.
    what knauene cry & clateryng of knockes
    þe cammede kongons cryen after col col.
    & blowen here bellewys þat al here brayn...
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