The God Abandons Antony -by C.P. Cavafy
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]At midnight, when suddenly you hear an invisible procession going by with exquisite music, voices, don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong,…
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Charlie Parker (1950) -by Campbell McGrath
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Bird is building a metropolis with his horn. Here are the gates of Babylon, the walls of Jericho cast down. Might die in Chicago, Kansas…
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The Sound of the Sea -by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep, And round the pebbly beaches far and wide I heard the first wave of the rising tide…
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A Silence -by Amy Clampitt
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]past parentage or gender beyond sung vocables the slipped-between the so infinitesimal fault line a limitless interiority beyond the woven unicorn the maiden (man-carved worm-eaten)…
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Ghazal -by Larry Levis
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Does exile begin at birth? I lived beside a wide river For so long I stopped hearing it. As when a glass shatters during an…
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Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World -by Jane Hirshfeld
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If the gods bring to you a strange and frightening creature, accept the gift as if it were one you had chosen. Say the accustomed…
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Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] by William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850 There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight To me did…
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Remember -by Joy Harjo
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. Remember the sun’s…
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You’ll know it — as you know tis Noon -by Emily Dickinson
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]You’ll know it — as you know ’tis Noon — By Glory — As you do the Sun — By Glory — As you will…
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Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law –by Adrienne Rich
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]1 You, once a belle in Shreveport, with henna-colored hair, skin like a peachbud, still have your dresses copied from that time, and play a…
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Mango Salmon Poke
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A mango salmon poke dish tastes a lot like summer, like a bit of heaven, and also feels like heaven on the tongue with it’s…
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Oven-Crisp Black Bean and Corn Flautas
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Taste and presentation are key to a satisfying meal, and sometimes we want to bring pleasure to the ear as well. There’s nothing like the…
