日期：2013-10-29 Attributed to Qu Ding Mark Sullivan Though we gather ourselves out of this hush（安静，肃静） , out of these summer palaces and mountainside pavilions（楼阁，大帐篷） , from the absence of sound that attends the ending of a sudden shower, and the re... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-29 Slack Action Jeffery Donaldson It goes through my mind like a train at night, the train my father rode in the night, his mind a train of thought far from where he rode. When I pull into the seniors' home I like to feel the car drift in abeyance（悬... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-29 Elegy Vijay Seshadri I've been asked to instruct you about the town you've gone to, where I've never been. The cathedral is worth looking at, but the streets are narrow, uneven（不平坦的） , and a little grim. The river is sluggish（萧条的） in the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-11 Cheyenne Rachel Jamison Webster I went down and down. I swam beside the boat, near its sucking wake and tall dangerous sides. I pulled through water hung with mud and slick（光滑的） shale-stumbled banks running up to trees and scattered logs bleach... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-11 Bad Sheep Hailey Leithauser Midnight's merely blue, but me, me, me, I'm through and through sloe, cracked soot- on-a-boot, nicotine（尼古丁） spat, licorice（甘草汁） whip. You can scratch, scratch, scratch but I stay underskin true to ebony（乌木，... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-11 Talking about the Wind Katie Peterson I hate to invoke the seasons. They dismantle（拆除，取消） us. We do the same to them. I hate to say the spring. It's become bone-deep routine. Nice going, May, permission or bluster, even the little leaves that... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-11 All We like Sheep David R. Slavitt No sheep would ever say, or, all right, think The shepherd is our Lord. They are not good with metaphors but, stupid as they may be, they know that the shepherd sooner or later will come with his curved knife and t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-11 Isaac David R. Slavitt After that grotesque（奇怪的） business up on the mountain, Abraham comes down and goes to Beersheba, but what about Isaac? No, not a word about him. A mistake? There cannot be mistakes in the Torah! The hole is there to let t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-11 Heretic That I Am Toms Q. Morn Three days now the mold（霉菌，模子） has advanced across the face of the peach I caught with one hand like Willie Mays, saving it from the sidewalk and its army of black shoes and how could it happen that my peach tur... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-11 Il Pleut Ann Lauterbach And the ghosts of Galileo and Apollinaire are meeting in a room reserved for those in mourning for acts of insight that link perception（知觉，看法） to understanding. They inhale（吸气） clouds that promise a more thorough o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-10-11 Tiny Women Martha Collins The tiny women muster（集合，检阅） green, leaf They do not celebrate more They will not hill or pillow The tiny women slip under doors, window walls, disturb They forage time, rest at attention, stir up stalled air Togethe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-06 Clifton Gorge Gerard Manley Hopkins Balsam floods the woods, swathing（包围） our senses like moss swaddles roots and earth. Ferns flutter in the shadow of the wind moving through, while we descend into the sanctuary（避难所） of the gorge like the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-06 Rope Kwame Dawes To hold our lives together on the cart before the slow march after midnight along back-roads, blind-driving, the scent of the exhaust making us drowsy（昏昏欲睡的，沉积的） , every shadow in the fields a threat of sorts; we use rope... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-06 Dining with Hitler Will Wells In meals at Emma's, only children and grandchildren rated given names. In-laws owned a separate nomenclature（命名法，术语） . Abuse was served in equal portions with beef brisket and bloodied purple beets. Aunt Ellen w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-06 Child is Father Colleen O'Brien We are farther post-Christian and richer entropic, make more of our movements and less of our masses. We matter as physics. Our matter's less ethics. Without them we're moral as moons and we orbit no center. We make a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-06 Water Table Eliza Griswold My earliest wish was not to exist, to burst in the backyard without violence, no blood, no fleshy bits, mute button pressed alone behind the rectory where no one would see me. This wasn't a plea to be found or mourned for,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-06 Dyke Robin Becker The word came after me, then hid each time I turned to look at it. It breathed in the hedge（树篱，障碍） . I could hear it bite and snap the air. I feared the woman with slicked-back hair sitting on a bar stool, her back to the da... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-09-06 The Good Shepherd Adlia Prado Let me be leaden（铅灰色的） , I don't have a shred of courage left. I can't have or be or live or die, I can neither go in or out. When I clamor for（大声要求） God, He sends me back to time, to receipts which -- by or... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-20 Hurricane Season John Hennessy Those red and yellow windbreakers signal how little time's left for spending and selling; signing sleeves unravel the seams of a flattened horizon as fast as hands pull wallets from pockets or unstitch sow's-ear purses... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-08-20 On Valentine's Day I Pick Up My Wedding Dress Jane Satterfield Dragged across a sculpted lawn, hem（边缘） half undone, the Sophia Long Ivory Silk was smeared with August grass. A thrill to wear the Empire waist with shirring at the bust, complete c... 阅读全文>>