日期：2013-12-19 Hunger Patricia Fargnoli It is the gnawing（令人痛苦的） within the silence of the deep body which is like the pool a waterfall replenishes（补充，装满） but can never fill. The watery room of the body and its voices who call and call wanting someth... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-12-19 Collateral Damage U. A. Fanthorpe The minor diplomat who brings terms for a ceasefire Enters through a side-door, in the small hours, Wearing a belted raincoat. The children have become bold. At the first siren They cried, and ran for their mothers.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-12-19 Clothes in the Closet Martha Ronk Limp as dishcloths（抹布） , they hang, useless in the backs of closets -- jackets or dresses or shifts worn in years gone by. You might, you once thought, wear them again: that fashion might return, you might gain... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-12-19 Muscle of difficulty Alice Major November's clench. A sullen（愠怒的） band of cloud is louring in the West -- a low forehead, a corrugated（波纹的） frown. Behind it comes the cold drop of frost and autumn's first hard night. Corrugator -- the tigh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-12-19 To Winter Rebecca Dunham You are catch-less, you are my abandonment You are my very own sweet crone（老母羊） . Timeless slab of ice and raw scrub, you empty me to pitted fruit-stone, a sacrifice To the green, green moon. You stiffen, sexless as the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-12-19 Fire Sermon Robert Gray The lissome（柔软的） bay is silvered slightly, in its supine lightness; a stocking-textured water takes the morning's cerise（樱桃色） . But soon, between the headlands, sea and sky are solid blues that have closed, almost s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-12-19 Demeter Speaks After a Long Silence Rosemary Catacalos Who are you, gardener? You dig deeply into me, into the dark home of the old woman who is a childless worm, an imperfect memory of grace. She recollects everything when you touch her, grows wing... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-12-19 Epic Ange Mlinko It's you I'd like to see Greece again with You I'd like to take to bed of cyclamen You know I nurse a certain myth about myself that I descend（下降） de tribus d'origine asiatique and am part Thracian or Macedonian cleaving to a He... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-12-19 In Bloom, Where the Meadow Rises Nathaniel Perry Do you remember when the sky burned down its wick of light as an April cold came on the evening of your fifth day in the world? Of course you don't, you couldn't even hold your head up yet, much less... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-12-19 A History of Mourning Robert Bly It's odd that evening is so speckled（点缀） with grief. Birds start singing when the branch reddens. But we write our poems when the sun goes down. Our ancestors knew how to cry at death; but they Had enough to do f... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-11-07 Polaroid Andrew Elliott I once got talking to a girl on a bus. Her father had worked for the US Air Force. She said it had been to do with black shit and stuff. We had both of us boarded at Corpus Christi. I had noticed her hair, it was like my own.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-11-07 Hypothesis, Proof Amy Dryansky A week of nonnegotiable fantasy, days of unmovable image -- in a locked room, against a door, in front of the window. I, of course, am wearing a skirt, stockings holding onto my thighs. You look and then look down. You... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-11-07 Thistles Austin Smith My father would wake early and calmly go about the business of giving himself cancer. Red, the color itself, sloshing（晃动） in the tank behind him, he'd drive the fencerows all morning, spraying thistles. I've always loved th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-11-07 Note Angie Estes They wrote to say they'd found my mother wondering in the garage -- like entering the ethereal（天上的） sphere, I thought: drawing near to its desire, so deeply is our intellect immersed（专注） that memory cannot follow after it,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-11-07 Five Tankas Harryette Mullen Walking along the green path with buds in my ears, too engrossed in（埋头于，热衷于） the morning news to listen to the stillness of the garden. Don't need picket fences（尖桩篱栅） , brick wall, or razor wire. Our home'... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-11-07 Breathless David Kirby Jean-Paul Belmondo, I'm thinking of you tonight because I saw you walking down the Boulevard St. Germain just this afternoon with a young woman, and not a starlet（小星星） , either, but a nurse, and you were using a cane, yet... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-11-07 Ode to the Defense Mechanism Ira Sadoff Some of the deadpan（面无表情的人） comes from the flatness, the feigned（假的） all-rightness, the sickening thrum of Kansas, taking all day to drive through that treelessness. Inside the hardness of the hear... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-29 My Mother Ellen Bryant Voigt my mother my mother my mother she could do anything so she did everything the world was an unplowed（未整修过的） field a dress to be hemmed a scraped knee it needed a casserole（勺皿，砂锅菜） it needed another alto in... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-29 Vessels Paisley Rekdal Shouldn't it ache, this slit（裂缝） into the sweet and salt mix of waters comprising the mussel（蚌） , its labial meats winged open: yellow- fleshed, black and gray around the tough adductor（内收肌） ? It hurts to imagine i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-29 Lost Civilization Henry Hart Wine festered（溃烂） at the bottom of my skull. Wind blew the night's big ideas off the trees. The moon had frostbite（冻伤，冻疮） . The stars did, too. Be kind to animals was mother's mantra（咒语） . Do your duty was... 阅读全文>>