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Saturday, May 7, 2011
"A Story" by Li Young Lee
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Sad is the man who is asked for a story and can't come up with one. His five-year-old son waits in his lap. Not the same story, Baba. A...
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"Grief" by Elizabeth Barrett Browing
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I TELL you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air...
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"What the mirror said" by Lucille Clifton
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listen, you a wonder. you a city of a woman. you got a geography of your own. listen, woman, you not a noplace anonymous girl; mi...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
"Not Waving but Drowning" by Stevie Smith
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No one heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor ch...
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Saturday, April 16, 2011
"this is just to say" by William Carlos Williams
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I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious ...
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Saturday, April 9, 2011
"When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman
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When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and d...
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
"Sindhi Woman" by Jon Stallworthy
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Barefoot through the bazaar, and with the same undulant grace as the cloth blown back from her face, she glides with a stone jar high on...
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