日期：2014-10-23 Hum Joshua McKinney When I smelled green through the blur where its wings were, felt the whir of their arc, heard the red of its ruby throat-scales, tasted the dart of its forked tongue afloat in the foxglove -- my only desire was to tell you. My we... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-23 Cloud No Bigger than a Man's Hand Dick Allen It approaches from the sea, too small for thunder and lightning but ominous as a closed fist and what it will bring nearing us, growing larger, is completely unknown. Beware the leaves blowing, beware the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-10-23 What the Girl Wore Kathleen Driskell At the store, on the hanger, the blue dress must have fallen like water to a froth of frilled hem, its bodice as smocked as a christening gown. A season out of date, her mother chose it from our local department... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-29 The Ten Commandments Jericho Brown But I could be covetous. I could be a thief. Could want and work for. Could wire and Deceive. I thought to fool the moon into A doubt. I did some doubting. Lord, Forgive me. In New Orleans that winter, I waited for... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-29 Dreamheart Tony Hoagland They took the old heart out of your chest all blue and spoiled like a sick grapefruit the way you removed your first wife from your life, and put a strong young blonde one in her place. What happened to the old heart is unre... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-29 Recalibration Polly Buckingham The repairman arrives at night to fix the telephone wires fried by lightning. He unscrews a metal box encasing a joint, and a tangle of colored cords spills out like a half-remembered dream. It works, he says. But it w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-29 Annunciation Robin Robertson after Fra Angelico He has come from the garden, leaving no shadow, no footprint in the dew: They hold each other's gaze at the point of balance: everything streaming towards this moment, streaming away. A word will set t... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-29 Activity Room John Bargowski My mother wants nothing to do with the puzzle two other residents, whose wheelchairs have been rolled up to a folding card table, are trying to put together -- a west-side shot of the New York skyline broken up into a th... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-29 Hart Crane in LA, 1927 Peter Balakian We sat in leather chairs around cocktail tables and the candidates came and went with badges on their jackets, proud and scared, full of knowledge and uncertainty. Everyone was animated as the conversation drift... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-04 Zen Sonnet Elizabeth Spires It was April and we were reading the book about Zen you were writing your Zen poems and we were talking about the moment we were in and I was thinking thoughts that were not Zen: how I know too much too little to teach yo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-04 Fox in a Tree Stump Judith Beveridge I gripped the branch and waited in a paddock that ran on over harder and harder earth. Leaving me with smoke and the stick to beat the fox, my uncle drove off. Terror barrel-rode through my stomach. I knew my unc... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-04 Midi Les Murray Muscles and torsoes of cloud ascended over the mountains. The fields looked like high speed so new-mown was the hay, then the dark blue Italian lavender met overhead, a strange maize deeply planted as mass javelins in the hoed floor... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-09-04 Lateral Dimensions Les Murray Cloudy night -- not enough stars to make frost haunted house -- one room the cattle never would go in mowing done -- each thing's a ship again on a wide green harbour purification -- newspapers soaked in rain before the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-08 Cosmology Christopher Buckley Most days I find myself considering the encrypted clouds, though, while everything is blue through the boughs of heaven, I know the stars will hardly spell out our names in specks across the enormity（巨大，暴行） of ni... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-08 From a Weekend First Paul Farley One for the money. Arrangements in green and grey from the window of an empty dining-car. No takers for this Burgundy today apart from me. I'll raise a weighted stem to my homeland scattering by, be grateful for thes... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-08 Ornithology Carol Frost Who else has seen the moment parleying（谈判） snipe on disappearing shoals（浅谈） , wind frothing at their feet, lift in one loud whirring of wings, so the last are first -- a testament time illuminates? How many years ago... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-08 Fantasy/Sci-Fi Laura Kasischke The broom closet to another planet. The impending（即将发生的） planetary disaster. The children in their maniac（发狂的） trances（恍惚，出神） . The rockets. The neighbors. The openmouthed spectators. The boy tumblin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-08-08 The Book of Life Laura Kasischke Pale and naked without their bodies, the souls examine the book in which they hope to find their names inscribed（题写，雕刻） . Made of soap. Now. Made of smoke. Now made of dew and hairlessness. And how primitive,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-07-18 Shark's Tooth Joshua Mehigan At twilight on the beach I found a shark's tooth. After three days of looking, and then not, I stepped onto the sand, and there it was. It happened as I twisted loose a shoe, impatient to shake off the week's bad luck, a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-07-18 Sex Perhaps Kathryn Starbuck A half century ago I was a welcoming port of call in a buoyant（轻快的） place, a person to drop in on or drop out of, adrift in a private sea of stormy inwardness, trying to love myself with conviction. The only ideas t... 阅读全文>>