July 2012
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Excerpt from James Tate's 'Success Comes to Cow...
he sails downstream like
a young man with a
destination. I
swim toward shore as
fast as my boots will
allow; as always,
neglecting to drown.
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In the Year the Hero Becomes a Fixture of His...
lunch-poems:
by Wendy Xu
Between loss and sabbatical, spring
thick of ivy snakes
a juniper tree. I intended
not less than six ways of
writing you, careful,
face turned down into a book
of psalms.
Night opens to quiet symmetry where
I will sleep when you sleep
next to me. Instructions
we parse, small nations flower in
your mouth. You...
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We should also attend to things like these, observing that even the incidental...
– Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Book 3)