日期：2014-04-17 Entrance William Greenway It's one of those days you wait for all summer as if all your life. Cool air has come blowing all day, flickering（闪烁） tired green leaves. You're so happy you could cry, and do, don't even care if the drugstore's out of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-17 Even Those Maureen N. McLane Even the places the sun doesn't reach in the deepest woods are hot. Even the places that never dry -- the mosses creeping everywhere a damp carpet underfoot -- are dry. Even the quietest places you've never been are disq... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-17 What's the Matter Maureen N. McLane Why the low mood, the picking at food? Maybe it's the weather. Maybe it's hormones. Explanation's cheap but sometimes hits the mark. I am the target of mysterious arrows I myself let sling. O that's your fantasy o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-04-17 Blind Crevasse Lisa Williams -- Polar explorer Richard Byrd Hand by hand, over blistering slivers（裂片） of ice scraping wrists and slithering（滑动） in ears, hand by hand, with ferocious（残忍的） delicacy, a furnace burning behind your efforts,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-03-25 Calculations: A Love Poem Gary Fincke The billionth digit of pi is 9, The last month without a full moon, February, 1865 -- This morning I am making a list Of the last lines of parables（比喻，预言） About the work of numbers, about Calculations, ma... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-03-25 By the Way C. Dale Young You are right to point out that the agapanthus（爱情花） is not a lily, especially to one who so loves precision, but the agapanthus is also called Lily of the Nile, which surely could be seen as justification for calling it... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-03-25 It's Raining Inside James Schuyler Lee Upton Not tearing the umbrellas inside out not even blowing them side to side just getting wetness wetter and then the rain dwindles but the sun has a shimmer（微光） like it's missing the rain and every once i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-03-25 Had She Elizabeth T. Gray Jr. Had she stayed Had she not stepped up Into the train that carried them down From the hills to the plane Home through Rangoon and Vientiane She would know that What kailāsaranashiva chandramoulīphanīndramātāmukutī... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-03-25 In Ravenna Chad Davidson Three boys, old enough to hurt someone, young enough to think it doesn't matter, sat outside the small green plot I came to. Dante's grave. All of us pulled there, experiencing gravity, out of control for different reasons.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-03-25 The Green Horse Yusef Komunyakaa The kneeling figure is from Yama or Carthage, I ask, What was his worth in gold, in salt, spices, statuary（雕像） , or commemorated axioms? L, if we weren't brave enough to believe we could master time, we wouldn't... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-03-25 A Change of Heart R. T. Smith Sunday night a widow in Winslow, Arkansas came home to find an owl's fully detailed profile printed on her patio door as clear as a photographic plate, and it startled her -- wings spanned wide and outsized eyes, the fe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-03-25 The Bridge Alan Shapiro Over the bridge across the river, the pilgrims prayed in lockstep（步伐一致） , and the deafening coherence of the single voice they made was a fulfillment of the dream each voice, alone, inaudible, dreamt it could be as it p... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-03-13 Landscape with Translucent Moon Jennifer Atkinson Palm trees, like old pilings, tip in the sand toward the Maldive Islands still. The moon, a slice of green coconut, floats in a sky streaky（有条纹的） with cloud. Eight winters after the tsunami hit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-03-13 Lessons in Darkness Peter Gizzi Those notes are fetching（迷人的） when they touch the ear. It's true, there are more tears in sand than water. Come out and play, the song's refrain in my head, my sawdust showing. My heart, your eyes is what the day... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-03-13 Edgar Poe Peter Gizzi Winter's the thing. A place to lay one's head. To sleep at last to sleep. Blue on flesh in snow light, iced boughs overhead. This is a poem about breath, brick, a piece of ink in the distance. Winter's the thing I miss. The fon... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-03-13 Repair Robin Becker More stall than store, his cramped（难懂的） space on Carmine smelled of Cat's Paw leather cream polish. A belt, a boot, our shoes for soles: he restored them, mended your silver heron（苍鹭） lamp from Norway, replaced your crac... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-02-26 Quails Meg Kearney Pliny told that migrating quails rested in such numbers on the sails of ships at night that the vessels were in danger of sinking. -- from 100 Birds and How They Got Their Names All night our ship creaks and groans under the weigh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-02-26 Robins in Love William Logan Branched like an artery, the dying oak leafs out with February robins. This is their layover（中途停留） month, down to the Keys and back. True snowbirds! A man with a .45 and a measured eye could pick them off one by on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-02-26 The Joins Chana Bloch Kintsugi is the Japanese art of mending precious pottery with gold. What's between us often seems flexible as the webbing between forefinger（食指） and thumb. Seems flexible, but it's not; what's between us is made of clay, li... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-02-26 Clamor Nick Norwood The mill's non-stop noise, a whir and a clangor（叮当声） , follows him home, over the bridge and up the hill, while at his back it goes on wheezing, chuffing lint through manifold（多方面的） windows, into the village with the l... 阅读全文>>