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By Leah Naomi Green
Take all summer,
your ember
 
from the sun,
its walking meditation.
 
Store it in small
vaults of light
 ...
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By Li-Young Lee
Li-Young, don’t feel lonelywhen you look upinto great night and findyourself the far face peeringhugely...
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By Li-Young Lee
And when, in the city in which I love you,even my most excellent song goes unanswered,and I mount the...
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By Rita Dove
late, in aqua and ermine, gardenias
scaling her left sleeve in a spasm of scent,
her gloves white, her smile chastened, purse giddy
with stars and rhinestones clipped to her brilliantined hair,
on her free arm that fine Negro,
Mr. Wonderful Smith.
 
It’s the day that isn’t, February 29th,
at the end of the shortest month of the year...

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