Nov. 1st, 2010

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we have given up on knocking - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

privacy is a language we don't speak - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

a bridge you will never need to cross first - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

singing Gershwin in the backyard - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

loneliness has forgotten your address - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

not even a doorknob between you - Sarah Kay "In the House With No Doors"

A glowing thing learning - Sarah Kay "Jakarta, January"


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A summons he'd choose to ignore - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"

Waited patient through each halting breath - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"

In the endless sum of death and birth - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"

A crime to let a bad man live - Roz Kaveney "The Ballad of the Death and the Maid"

Organized a union of hate - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Brick Lane"

When the red flags fly in London - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Conspiracy Theory"

Silenced shrill blizzard voices' call - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Endurance"

Standing by a glass furnace - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Gravestones"

Who left him aglow with deadly salts - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Gravestones"

Eye-patches and clockwork hands - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"

Ivory legs with perfectly hinged joints - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"

The backbeat of a world of great machines - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Things Lost"

Would await them at the duelling ground - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Vengeance"

All the wars she harboured in her heart - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Vengeance"

Built to kill by slow degrees - Roz Kaveney "Twelve Steampunk Sonnets: Victory"


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A jay on the fence preaches to a squirrel - Adele Kenny "Survivor"

How winter razes the shoals of heaven - Adele Kenny "Survivor"

How easily autumn shakes the yellow leaves - Adele Kenny "Survivor"

My night on the wild river - Adele Kenny "Survivor"

Morning breaks from sparrow's wings - Adele Kenny "Survivor"


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Try not to be disappeared here - Michael Kleber-Diggs "America is Loving Me to Death"

The ranks of vagabonds existing- Michael Kleber-Diggs "America is Loving Me to Death"

Asking through ravenous teeth- Michael Kleber-Diggs "America is Loving Me to Death"

Even as my fidelity falls- Michael Kleber-Diggs "America is Loving Me to Death"

The motion of earth in sky - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"

How desire vibrates within us - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"

Make vast shelter together - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"

Strange trees, reluctant in this forest - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"

Reach toward star and cloud - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"

All of us want our share of light - Michael Kleber-Diggs "The Grove"


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Sternly strive to conquer grief - Jan Kochanowski "Laments I" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

The harshness of grim Proserpine - Jan Kochanowski "Laments II" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Disaster drives me on by force - Jan Kochanowski "Laments II" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Inexorable princess of the shades - Jan Kochanowski "Laments II" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Vanish to the halls of night - Jan Kochanowski "Laments II" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Weeding out sharp thorns and nettles - Jan Kochanowski "Laments V" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

This flow of barren tears - Jan Kochanowski "Laments V" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

In glad unstinted measure - Jan Kochanowski "Laments VI" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

Pay dear with sorrow for brief song - Jan Kochanowski "Laments VI" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall


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Tried to ride the buses without paying - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"

See eels wandering around downtown - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Eel Week"

Once our genes were our own - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Excess Baggage"

Not a footprint or any other trace - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"

Burned our way into the wood - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"

No movement save the languid beckoning of the trees - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Follow Up"

Deserts sometimes dream of water - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

The juniper sways in remnant currents - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Lost lakes gleam in the noon heat - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

And the fish crawled into stones to sleep - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Incandescent sand blew in on the west wind - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

For whom the desert was a keyhole - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Through which they hastened out of the past - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Into the rejuvenated sun - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Sky clear all the way up to the stars - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Untroubled by the absent sun - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Ghost Lakes"

Arrive empty-handed and alone - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Hunting Party"

Underground dogs turning the tide - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "I'd Had a Lot of Rum, but Still..."

Cowering in cavernous burrows - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "I'd Had a Lot of Rum, but Still..."

Fomenting revolutions on alien planets - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Jumping into the System"

Plunging off of the silty shelves - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

An unresisting jumble of debris - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

A chill river flows from the glacier's toe - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

Shattering green bones on cliffs of ice - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

Hope ever to return to day's dominion - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

To ply these frigid currents of the deep - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

Whose captain would seek the lightless reefs - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

Where aberrant creatures build cathedrals - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "In His Cloak Still Freezing"

Once they got good at keeping warm - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"

This time, we're going to let kudzu have a shot - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Last Time, We Trust"

Promise intimate revelations to come - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Laurentia Burning"

We know how to predict their courses - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

Leaves behind us swirling in our plasma trail - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

We built this city out of magic, sand, and dust - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

Could stand the shadow of your sleeping face - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

Alone here in the gentle breeze - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Long Voyage"

Grey hands growing from parched soil - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Monoculture"

Where cacti withered and blew away - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Monoculture"

A burst of tachyons signals another wave - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"

Another wave of time-traveling starships - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"

Because next year might be too late - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Not the Home World"

Cocooned in their antiseptic habitats - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

Eyes blazing with alien worlds - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

New minerals and precisely measured constants - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

Poking through the pestilential ash - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

In obscure places on several continents - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "An Open Letter to Our Astronauts"

Rooted at one level in the painter's art - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife"

The product of my admirable machine - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife"

Within a sullen glow of apocalypse - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Portrait of the Mad Scientist's Wife"

Digesting our emotions to feed her future - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "The Quince Bedroom"

Our biochemical keys fit fossil locks - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Raised by Wolves"

We will know when we give it a Turing test - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Raised by Wolves"

A good place for the stolen mind - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

A room inside an icy moonlet - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

How else to explain the haunting voices - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

Everything that passes through that moon - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

A myriad hailstones infected with her name - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "She's in the Ice"

One of us outside, one inside - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Peeling stars from my shoulders - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Clinging to my mind's eye - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Starlight streaming through your keyhole - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Burning with the fury of subduction scorned - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Searing language into brains ill-equipped to use it - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Dementia boiling in the abyss if we slip - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Staring into those million million suns - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Making five out of two and two - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Stars"

Made mirrors of the pond and birdbath - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"

The drifts covered the streetlamps - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "A Story for Winter"

Whisper in a foot-shuffle vortex - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"

A pause to gather lost thoughts - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"

How long has that bird been watching you? - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Strange Oblivion"

Under the crust of the next planet - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Supersonic Rocketeers"

Who built everything worthy of the name - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"

Who occupied every planet worth having - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"

Making remarkable machines that almost worked - David C. Kopaska-Merkel "Wise and Now-Departed Uncles"


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Snippets by Kendall Evans and David C. Kopaska-Merkel in collaboration.


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Choose to love the dawn - Christopher Kondrich "Asylum"

Angling themselves against the waves - Christopher Kondrich "Beach Scene"

Had yet to function in myth - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"

Bronze pouring between us and what we know - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"

As the present falls upon the past - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"

By the ocean's obfuscating grave - Christopher Kondrich "Bellfounding"

Facing what I think is the wind - Christopher Kondrich "Caedmon"

Calling through swirling birch - Christopher Kondrich "Caedmon"

Praises this blindfold of world - Christopher Kondrich "Caedmon"

The morning sun with its golden tassels - Christopher Kondrich "Clearing"

The evening sun with its mask of moon - Christopher Kondrich "Clearing"

The sun on the sea of undulating eyes - Christopher Kondrich "Clearing"

A statue with its arms broken off - Christopher Kondrich "Common Things"

A rag that wipes the blade clean - Christopher Kondrich "Common Things"

Cutting through the breastbone of the world - Christopher Kondrich "Common Things"

Definite article of the body - Christopher Kondrich "Definite Article"

A vault that is rumored to hide shelter - Christopher Kondrich "Definite Article"

Pull on the eye with their gravities - Christopher Kondrich "Degree of Nothing"

Slender face carved by wind - Christopher Kondrich "Degree of Nothing"

Every zero wraps around like an echo - Christopher Kondrich "Degree of Nothing"

As I walk inside the zero - Christopher Kondrich "Degree of Nothing"

Between reaching and touching - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"

Ice cubes projecting memory - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"

Through the spiral of a French horn - Christopher Kondrich "Division of Labor"

Clothed you in vanishing numbers - Christopher Kondrich "Dwelling"

Blue cut from the sepia cloth - Christopher Kondrich "[I Speak into the Color Blue Cut]"

The night dangling from the trees - Christopher Kondrich "[I Speak into the Color Blue Cut]"

The ocean is sky to fish and mollusk - Christopher Kondrich "Layer of Ash"

Between ideograms depicting darkness - Christopher Kondrich "Layer of Ash"

Slip into total eclipse - Christopher Kondrich "Map of Belonging"

Pick out my death from the weeds - Christopher Kondrich "Map of Belonging"

Displaces the current life - Christopher Kondrich "Object Permanence"

Some version of dwindling light - Christopher Kondrich "Object Permanence"

Rising up into the feeling of horizon - Christopher Kondrich "Orientation"

When the storm was just intention - Christopher Kondrich "Orientation"

Under the rocks and hidden machinery - Christopher Kondrich "Passaic, Again"

How they tasted of mirrors - Christopher Kondrich "Passaic, Again"

To believe in burning beacons - Christopher Kondrich "Passaic, Again"

To find your falsehoods in my eyes - Christopher Kondrich "Passaic, Speaking"

Divined them out of metal - Christopher Kondrich "Peace Epic"

History woven from the plural - Christopher Kondrich "Peace Epic"

When I no longer coincide with myself - Christopher Kondrich "Placeholder"

The frailest iteration of change - Christopher Kondrich "Placeholder"

Keyed to waxing or waning crescent - Christopher Kondrich "Placeholder"

Variables of lesser consequence - Christopher Kondrich "Previously Forgotten"

The tail has only one dog - Christopher Kondrich "Previously Forgotten"

Some combination of symbol and movement - Christopher Kondrich "Previously Forgotten"

Hidden barnacles of intention - Christopher Kondrich "Previously Forgotten"

Embroidered into the marrow of the idea - Christopher Kondrich "Previously Forgotten"

Would contain only margins - Christopher Kondrich "Previously Forgotten"

Under the dome of echo hung - Christopher Kondrich "Remonstrance"

My voice does not remember crossing the river - Christopher Kondrich "Ruin Valley"

Allowing lowercase sand to spill from me - Christopher Kondrich "Ruin Valley"

My fingers open despite my mind - Christopher Kondrich "Ruin Valley"

The sea consumed by anxious gulls - Christopher Kondrich "Schedule for Burning"

Reach over and grasp the dark air - Christopher Kondrich "Schedule for Burning"

Unfolded trust from its cloth napkin - Christopher Kondrich "Trust"


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Are you just an echo? - Kaneko Misuzu "Are You an Echo?" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

A picture in a borrowed book - Kaneko Misuzu "Beautiful Town" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

Spreads to the ears of the bee - Kaneko Misuzu "Dewdrop" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

A harbor for Last Year - Kaneko Misuzu "Last Year" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

The cold moonlight piercing - Kaneko Misuzu "Snow Pile" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

Unseen things are still there - Kaneko Misuzu "Stars and Dandelions" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

Hidden in the cracks of the roof tile - Kaneko Misuzu "Stars and Dandelions" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

Soldiers advancing from the open sea - Kaneko Misuzu "Waves" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

The whale memorial service - Kaneko Misuzu "Whale Memorial" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

The time of the flying fish - Kaneko Misuzu "Whale Memorial" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

The bell at the seaside temple - Kaneko Misuzu "Whale Memorial" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi

The moonflower that no one tends - Kaneko Misuzu "Wonder" transl. by Sally Ito and Michiko Tsuboi


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The combat of the elements - Henry King "The Dirge"

Each loud passion of the mind - Henry King "The Dirge"

In the mist of dark decay - Henry King "The Dirge"

Must marry my body to that dust - Henry King "The Exequy"

And fill the room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "The Exequy"

With all the speed desire can make - Henry King "The Exequy"

Using no other exercise - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

With sighs dissolved into showers - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Folded within my hemisphere - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

All that space my mirth adjourn - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Putting off thy ashy shroud - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Disperse this sorrow's cloud - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Too narrow is to calculate - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Shall the earth to cinders doom - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Each grain and atom of this dust - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

The room my heart keeps empty - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"

Content to live divided - Henry King "Exequy on His Wife"


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Mysteriously moved the world of fancies - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Bewildered in ambrosial dreams - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

A thousand forms of memory whirl - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

A sacred bond of sympathy 'twixt sea and land - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Awakens kindred souls to kindred thought - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Where the Promethean spark has left no trace - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

And still defy the crumbling touch of Time - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Till golden Phoebus should restore his splendor - Mrs. E.C. Kinney "Ode to the Moon" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]


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A knife between the fifth rib and the sixth - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"

It hurts to unbutton his name from your skin - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"

Undo the map his hands made - Cassandra Khaw "Instructions for When You've Endured as Much as You Can"

Asking for cuts from your first-born heart - Cassandra Khaw "We Aren't Their Fairytales, Baby"

Has only worshipped in the true church of TV - Cassandra Khaw "We Aren't Their Fairytales, Baby"


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After the first flush of blooms - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Picking through the ruins for my roots - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Make an agreement with the living - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Reveal the private ledger of your birth - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Truckloads of gravel between us - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Stayed on the threshold of memory - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Let the unexpected take shape - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Toward a past swallowed by stone - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Those who would rewrite your life - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"

Your face hewn into lost history - Tala Khanmalek "Louise"


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Parsing old and new ocean kinships - Petra Kuppers "Forest Starships"

Feed carbon black into morning breezes - Petra Kuppers "Forest Starships"

So much closer into the dark - Petra Kuppers "Forest Starships"

Feed on the carpet fibers of worry - Petra Kuppers "Gut Body"

Your dark morning tears - Petra Kuppers "Gut Body"


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Join the goblin-folk in the night - Rachel Kolar "Boys and Girls, Come Trick-or-Treat"

Called for thunderbolts three - Rachel Kolar "Frankenstein Had a Marvelous Mind"

The ghoul danced a jig in his tomb - Rachel Kolar "Hey, Diddle, Diddle, Black Cat with a Fiddle"

And the witch flew away on her broom - Rachel Kolar "Hey, Diddle, Diddle, Black Cat with a Fiddle"

Pocket full of sage - Rachel Kolar "Sing a Song of Witches"

Picking thyme and rue - Rachel Kolar "Sing a Song of Witches"

Grinning orange against the black - Rachel Kolar "Twinkle, Twinkle, Lantern Jack"

Like a watchman in the night - Rachel Kolar "Twinkle, Twinkle, Lantern Jack"


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Fists slow to open in forgiveness - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

Fronds unfurl from the joints of older ones - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

Inevitably in forgetfulness - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

New ferns snaking fast up the old hosts' throats - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

The thorn sea that has swallowed us - Jennifer L. Knox "The Cliffs Above Oswald"

Exhaled the boundary of herself - Jennifer L. Knox "Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa"

Crocheting holes in the land - Jennifer L. Knox "Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa"

Whale songs in amber - Jennifer L. Knox "Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa"

The dust-mote mottled skies of our own minds - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

Locked in the dust-mote mottled skies - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

Syllables and the shadows of telephone poles - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

Dispersed by the breath of other people - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

One stalk of corn can't bear fruit - Jennifer L. Knox "Hive Minds"

hurling herself teeth-first at the windows - Jennifer L. Knox "How old is Maggie?"

Nothing but a street light - Jennifer L. Knox "Name That Tune"

Strolled through the prayer snow - Jennifer L. Knox "Prayer of the Shy Forest"

Shy like coyotes and me - Jennifer L. Knox "Prayer of the Shy Forest"


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If language can be a kind of crying - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

Tin cans scattered in the meadow - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

Each bullet hole suffused with moon - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

The platinum thread beyond them - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

Pockets of graveled stone beneath the bank - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

The bats dip and swarm over my bed - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

My hands lost in my pockets - Keetje Kuipers "Across a Great Wilderness without You"

Porches lit like vacant stairwells - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

Any type of weather might fall through - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

The schedule of departing ferries - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

Ferries where the whales bloom - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

A flock of birds that can make no song - Keetje Kuipers "Collaborators"

In the steep twilight descending - Keetje Kuipers "Emesis"

Knitted back together by unseen hands - Keetje Kuipers "Emesis"

Scars laid while I slept - Keetje Kuipers "Emesis"

When the darkness wakes them - Keetje Kuipers "The Rats"

Possessing nothing but each other - Keetje Kuipers "The Rats"

Not only the arrow that delivers sorrow - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"

Walking alone through the storm-blown - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"

After a dinner crowded with voices - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"

A wild mustang asleep in the knapweed - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"

One invasive asleep in the arms of another - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"

Made the season transparent and thin - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"

Piercing the silence of this sudden loss - Keetje Kuipers "10,000 Acres Burned"


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Everything shattered, everything lost - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"

The law of broken things - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"

Ghosts of old letters, old laws - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"

As memory preserves the pattern of broken things - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"

Through many journeys and ruined days - Rodger Kamenetz "The Broken Tablets"

The verbs fell away - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"

The sky tore strips of wax paper - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"

Through the metal hexes of fence - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"

Hurtled in a Beethoven surge - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"

The geometry of winter - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"

An angle of dead bees - Rodger Kamenetz "The Living Hive"

Where anger turns into beauty - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"

The violence of the perfect pitch - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"

Who takes the bite out of every bark - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"

The restaurant no one goes to anymore - Rodger Kamenetz "Yogi"


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Gave them my house as home - Holly Karapetkova "Genesis"

Some became pillars of salt - Holly Karapetkova "Genesis"

Saved only thorns and thistles for myself - Holly Karapetkova "Genesis"

Hung above the brink of winter - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"

So many thousands of leaves - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"

Because the black dresses sit unwashed - Holly Karapetkova "Holiday"

Whispered stories of stars - Holly Karapetkova "Refugees"

Fell upward into the sky - Holly Karapetkova "Refugees"

Rocks rolling across the fat plains - Holly Karapetkova "Refugees"

Miles and miles of footprints in the dirt - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

Nothing left but our shadows - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

Sifting through the dust behind us - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

Nothing behind us to burn - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

Who could blame us for turning - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

Blamed us for leaving the garden - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

Who had come from nowhere - Holly Karapetkova "Song of the Exiles"

The scent of gardenias and gasoline - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"

A narrow staircase leading upwards into nothing - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"

Fresh garlic and parsley from our garden - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"

Our days upon the high winds - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"

Bumping only against the sky - Holly Karapetkova "The Woman Who Wanted a Child"


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Has fate taken its revenge? - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken

The thief has set his trap - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken

Even if we flee there is no escape - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken

When the arrows of the age target them - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken

Even the mountain tops are crushed - Mahmud Kashgari "Alp Er Tunga" transl. by Aziz Isa Elken


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Mists of memory locked within - Fanny Kemble "Absence"

Teach my drooping hope to live - Fanny Kemble "Absence"

Blame not my tears - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"

The sunlight of hope on your heart - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"

The path you now measure - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"

The future still woos you - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"

Woos you with hands full of flowers - Fanny Kemble "An Apology"

Burns me away without control - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"

How dim and strange your features - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"

The hot mist that veils my eyes - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"

Upon my heart lies his first token - Fanny Kemble "The Death-Song"

On the orange grove's waving height - Fanny Kemble"Eastern Sunset"

The rustling flight of the evening breeze - Fanny Kemble"Eastern Sunset"

His nest in the cypress trees - Fanny Kemble"Eastern Sunset"

The joy that young existence yields - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

Let me behold the summer sky - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

And join the wild wind's voice - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

As its bright drops fall starlike - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

Music of the wood, the wave, the wind - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

Clear spring and haunted well - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

Sleeping woods and sheltering mountains - Fanny Kemble "An Entreaty"

Hills of fire gave back the light - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

Broke on the stillness of the night - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

Conjured upon the glassy wave - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

Strains from that mighty hunting-horn - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

Wrapped in sullen mist and rain - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

With heavy hearts and tearful eyes - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

That answered well the weeping skies - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"

The fairies palace beside the stream - Fanny Kemble "A Farewell"

Hangs on the brow of night - Fanny Kemble "A Farewell"

Shake the fading stars from her robes of light - Fanny Kemble "A Farewell"

Fly no more on my fiery steed - Fanny Kemble "A Farewell"

For three days hold supremacy - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"

Ever-varying skies contend - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"

Many a giant oak is sleeping - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"

Through which the summer rills run weeping - Fanny Kemble "Fragment from an epistle written when the thermometer stood at 98 in the shade"

Chased by legends strange - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [It was harvest time: the broad, bright moon]"

With gray eyes lifted to the moon - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [It was harvest time: the broad, bright moon]"

Plagues inflicted by these angered sprites - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [It was harvest time: the broad, bright moon]"

Grasshopper from out the stubble - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [It was harvest time: the broad, bright moon]"

On the golden margin that binds the silver sea - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [Walking by moonlight on the golden margin]"

The sun gems their pale robes with diamonds - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [Walking by moonlight on the golden margin]"

Wreaths of crimson and yellow foxglove - Fanny Kemble "Fragment [Walking by moonlight on the golden margin]"

Apollo's smile upon its current - Fanny Kemble "Impromptu"

Found its waves were wine - Fanny Kemble "Impromptu"

It flows a sullen stream of tears - Fanny Kemble "Impromptu"

White waves dance along the shore - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"

Lost in the unknown seas - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"

Alone in that enchanted desert - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"

Strange music startle the still air - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"

'Mid whose wild din I pause - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

With steps that do not tire - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

These dark days be once gone by - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

Doomed beneath the yoke to bow - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

Toiling in these caverns dread - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

Lest I sink down beneath my load - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

The green boughs are beckoning me - Fanny Kemble "A Lament for the Wissahiccon"

Where the gold-green waters run - Fanny Kemble "A Lament for the Wissahiccon"

Into a whirl of boiling snow - Fanny Kemble "A Lament for the Wissahiccon"

The clouds go trooping through - Fanny Kemble "A Lament for the Wissahiccon"

And utter but a whisper of the woes - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Academy at Lenox, Massachusetts"

Mourn not the perishing of each fair toy - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Addressed to the Young Gentlemen leaving the Academy at Lenox, Massachusetts"

Breath like the Indian clove - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Oh, sunny love!"

Nightshade all, with gloomy cypress wove - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Oh, sunny love!"

From Hope's intense desire go - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Good night! from music's softest spell]"

Evening mists of doubt and sorrow - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Good night! from music's softest spell]"

From hours of weary waking - Fanny Kemble "Lines for Music [Good night! from music's softest spell]"

So full of sin and folly - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

With an undiscerning eyes I see - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

The pageant wild go dancing by - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Bear no badge of roses or of rue - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

In the inmost chambers of my soul - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

The glad sunlight of clear thought - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

A fragrant land with flowers wrought - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

By Fortune's adverse tide - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Through Time's uncertain day - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Whose footprints from the earth have vanished - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Within a summer sun cloud furled - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

With all its gilded snares - Fanny Kemble "Lines, In Answer to a Question"

Welcome unto this dungeon-house - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

All the woe this life awards - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

Sealed by the soft hand of sleep - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

Walk a restless world of dreams - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

Long in bitterness to reach the goal - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

Upon Time's flinty road - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

Extend her poisonous chalice - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

Love its withering sunshine lend - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

Only a more dark eclipse - Fanny Kemble "Lines on a Sleeping Child"

Shrined in yon silent stream - Fanny Kemble "Lines Written at Night"

The vast and cloud-embroidered canopy - Fanny Kemble "Lines Written at Night"

That o'er our shadowy earth hang brooding - Fanny Kemble "Lines Written at Night"

From her midnight throne of ether - Fanny Kemble "Lines Written at Night"

The perfect work of wisdom - Fanny Kemble "Lines, Written in London"

The last glance of his vanishing light - Fanny Kemble "The Minstrel's Grave"

Then rest content with sorrow - Fanny Kemble "On a Musical Box"

In presumption of the daring spirit - Fanny Kemble "The Prayer of a Lonely Heart"

Athwart the leaden sky - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

The heavy clouds came gathering - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

Drunk with heaven's tears - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

Each moaning autumn breeze - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

All fair things had passed away - Fanny Kemble "A Promise"

Studying the harmony of gentle Shakspeare - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [By the pure spring, whose haunted waters flow]"

On the wild shore of the eternal deep - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [By the pure spring, whose haunted waters flow]"

Mighty waters conquering sweep - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [By the pure spring, whose haunted waters flow]"

When sleep and silence keep their watch - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"

All youth's brightest power - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"

My nights of burning tears - Fanny Kemble "A Promise [In the dark, lonely night]"

The mountain-tops, where once Hope stood - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"

Who with me on my way did walk - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"

Sweet scraps of that immortal song - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"

That far land where fall no blights - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"

Sweet kindred of my exiled soul - Fanny Kemble "A Retrospect"

Dim lands in troubled dreams - Fanny Kemble "Song [Pass thy hand through my hair, lore]"

As the autumn peaches grow - Fanny Kemble "Song [Pass thy hand through my hair, lore]"

The last sunset of hope pass away - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"

Through the still sapphire skies - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"

Wrapt in a halo as soft, and as bright - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"

The pure silver radiance enshrining - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"

How the heavens stoop and gloom - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Art thou already weary of the way?]"

Every step more near the end - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Art thou already weary of the way?]"

Into the fountains of eternal light - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Away, away! bear me away, away]"

Melting in the sun's devouring ray - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Away, away! bear me away, away]"

No desert in the land of life - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Blaspheme not thou thy sacred life, nor turn]"

Shall teem with heavenly harvests - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Blaspheme not thou thy sacred life, nor turn]"

The strife of hourly being - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile]"

The sharp biting file of action - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile]"

The tightened chain of rough existence - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [But to be still! oh, but to cease awhile]"

The gloom of solemn cypress bowers - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [By jasper founts, whose falling waters make]"

No prying sunbeams break - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [By jasper founts, whose falling waters make]"

Guardian giants of this solitude - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Cover me with your everlasting arms]"

Buried lie in purple beds of thyme - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Cover me with your everlasting arms]"

A voice low in the sunset woods - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"

In the murmuring of the floods - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"

The stormy light of his fierce lurid eyes - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"

A flood of glory hands upon the world - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"

Bright flood of burning light - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Lady, whom my beloved loves so well!]"

In one eternal pang of memory - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Lady, whom my beloved loves so well!]"

Where the summer bees feed in thyme and clover - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Like one who walketh in a plenteous land]"

Where saffron skies roof in the earth - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Like one who walketh in a plenteous land]"

A sad heart walks through this jubilee - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Like one who walketh in a plenteous land]"

Wander hand in hand with Thought - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oft let me wander hand in hand with Thought]"

And wake poor sobbing Echo - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oft let me wander hand in hand with Thought]"

Unhallowed mirth shrieks frantic laughter - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oh weary, weary world! how full thou art]"

Whirling in dizzy trance - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oh weary, weary world! how full thou art]"

Who bear aloft the overflowing cup - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Oh weary, weary world! how full thou art]"

In Time's storehouse lie days, hours, and moments - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Say thou not sadly, "never," and "no more,"]"

Unknown hoards of joy - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Say thou not sadly, "never," and "no more,"]"

Spirit of all sweet sounds - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Spirit of all sweet sounds! who in mid air]"

That through the rustling corn run chattering - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Spirit of all sweet sounds! who in mid air]"

My veins run liquid flame - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [There's not a fibre in my trembling frame]"

Not a fibre in my trembling frame - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [There's not a fibre in my trembling frame]"

Swim in eddying whirls of passion - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [There's not a fibre in my trembling frame]"

A cold and bitter consciousness - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [There's not a fibre in my trembling frame]"

Doomed to till full sore - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Thou poisonous laurel leaf, that in the soil]"

Nightshade of the soul - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Thou poisonous laurel leaf, that in the soil]"

And watched with sleepless care - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Thou poisonous laurel leaf, that in the soil]"

Visions Time's dark wing effaces - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet ['Twas but a dream! and oh! what are they all]"

Visions Hope's bright finger traces - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet ['Twas but a dream! and oh! what are they all]"

A thousand thoughts of sunny weather - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"

Lime and silver hawthorn twined - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"

Some sunny dream of river, field, and sky - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"

Wafted on the blackbird's sunset song - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"

Some wild snatch of ancient melody - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"

'Twixt the last violet and the earliest rose - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Whene'er I recollect the happy time]"

Whose cheek bears pleasure's sleepless flush - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"

From the bright eastern door - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"

Lie bound with thongs of fire - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"

Where the sun's shafts lie bound - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"

Day's chariot-wheels upon th' horizon - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"

The bitterest tears we shed - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

Your fond eyes and yearning hearts - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

Upon the face of this blank earth - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

Too common to deserve a tear - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

Her frozen heart denies - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

One dark, fatal, deep eclipse - Fanny Kemble "'Tis an Old Tale and Often Told"

When the year begins to wane - Fanny Kemble "To --- [I would I might be with thee, when the year]"

Wild requiems for the summer that is gone - Fanny Kemble "To --- [I would I might be with thee, when the year]"

Filling the brief space of one mortal hour - Fanny Kemble "To --- [I would I might be with thee, when the year]"

Wither our spirits stray - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"

When sleep and darkness follow - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"

Wish the staring sunlight gone - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"

Day and its thousand torturing moments - Fanny Kemble "To --- [Is it a sin to wish that I may meet thee]"

Of the blessing from the sod - Fanny Kemble "To --- [What recks the sun, how weep the heavy flowers]"

Have found my sin's sharp scourge - Fanny Kemble "To --- [What recks the sun, how weep the heavy flowers]"

The laugh with silver sound - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the dawn]"

The night with solemn eyes - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the dawn]"

Tread those well known paths - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the glad sun looks smiling from the sky]"

When the warm hearth throws its bright glow - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the glad sun looks smiling from the sky]"

Wakes with its joyous sound the soul of mirth - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When the glad sun looks smiling from the sky]"

And the wild winds sang requiem - Fanny Kemble "To --- [When we first met, dark wintry skies were glooming]"

No spell to waken sense - Fanny Kemble "To a Picture"

My fond prayers and wild idolatry - Fanny Kemble "To a Picture"

Loathing the heavy chains that bind - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

That misery perhaps is found - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

A world of sorrow and of sin - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

Life's sweetest buds fall withered - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

Hope's bright wings in the dark earth - Fanny Kemble "To a Star"

Time beckons on the hours - Fanny Kemble "To Miss ---"

And in her train the hour of parting - Fanny Kemble "To Miss ---"

A stream of sad and solemn splendour - Fanny Kemble "To Mrs. --- [I never shall forget thee--'tis a word]"

The Power that lent such gifts - Fanny Kemble "To Mrs. --- [I never shall forget thee--'tis a word]"

And guide it safely to the port at last - Fanny Kemble "To Mrs. --- [I never shall forget thee--'tis a word]"

Wander through this dismal earth - Fanny Kemble "To My Guardian Angel"

Whose guardian wings hung o'er me - Fanny Kemble "To My Guardian Angel"

Listen now to that one note - Fanny Kemble "To the Nightingale"

Youngest and fairest of the four - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"

A thousand germs of light and beauty - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"

Wherein a thousand winged minstrels meet - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"

The work-song of the early bees - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"

White blossoms fondly murmuring - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"

All steeped in starry dew - Fanny Kemble "To the Spring"

Clasp my hands over my weary eyes - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"

When once my sail is shadowed - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"

From stony rifts of granite gray - Fanny Kemble "To the Wissahiccon"

Eclipse the midnight moon's soft ray - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."

Bound with the laurel of victory - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."

Crowned with the halo of liberty - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."

On the listening ear of night - Fanny Kemble "To Thomas Moore, Esq."

Bound by her emerald zone - Fanny Kemble "Venice"

That now breathe the universal air - Fanny Kemble "The Vision of Life"

That in the womb of Time yet sleep - Fanny Kemble "The Vision of Life"

Every sound of war triumphant - Fanny Kemble "The Vision of Life"

The ceaseless stream of worshippers - Fanny Kemble "The Vision of Life"

The full chorus of their midnight song - Fanny Kemble "The Wind"

No terror in the lightning's glare - Fanny Kemble "The Wind"

Upon the emblazoned leaf of fame - Fanny Kemble "A Wish [Let me not die forever when I'm laid]"

Purple wreaths of mournful nightshade - Fanny Kemble "A Wish [Oh! that I were a fairy sprite, to wander]"

The rocks that lock with loitering feet - Fanny Kemble "Written After Leaving West Point"

Crept down into its depths - Fanny Kemble "Written After Leaving West Point"

Love was melting our two souls - Fanny Kemble "Written After Leaving West Point"

The wings of fire are furled - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

Looking upon the never-resting earth - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

Where has fled the happy dream - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

The mountains with their tangled hair - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

The wild torrent's snowy, leaping feet - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

To which our footsteps never shall return - Fanny Kemble "Written After Spending a Day at West Point"

No more will mingle with the dirge - Fanny Kemble "Written on Cramond Beach]"

Filling with awful harmony the air - Fanny Kemble "Written on Cramond Beach]"


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Smoke threads the afternoon - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

No calling cards await - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

Where bulbs break into bloom - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

While she dreams of chapel bells - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

An island braceleted by seas - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

Mistress of the breakfast nook - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

Peels an impossible sun - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"

A dish of melon sliced to smiles - Jennifer Key "Rich People in Paintings,"


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The ore in my blood - Donika Kelly "Archaeology"

Song of a nutbrown hen - Donika Kelly "Bower"

This half-remembered light - Donika Kelly "Brood"

The thick bones of winter - Donika Kelly "Commandments"

Swallow each day like a stone - Donika Kelly "Commandments"

Secure in the company of my longing - Donika Kelly "I love you. I miss you. Please get out of my house."

A spring of shambles - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Donika"

A witness to the sea and the sun - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Mermaid"

Your body lashed to the mast - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Mermaid"

Nothing between us but salt and breath - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Mermaid"

Full of want and marrow - Donika Kelly "Love Poem: Werewolf"

Empty as a shell and hollow - Donika Kelly “The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.”

The rough calculus of walking - Donika Kelly “The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.”

The thrumming wilderness of self - Donika Kelly "Out West"

The red bird inside my chest - Donika Kelly "Red Bird"

In the full throat of summer - Donika Kelly "Red Bird"

Each butte and bitter lake - Donika Kelly "Santa Rosa"

Discover the wonder of perpendicularity - Donika Kelly "Sonnet in which only one bird appears"

Content with the idea of memory - Donika Kelly "Tender"

Under the pollution of a hunter's moon - Donika Kelly "The Three Birds of the Milky Way"

The ghost snare of a gray whale's call - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

The eagles at the river's edge - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

the wind pushing water out of itself - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

The ghost snare of a gray whale's call - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

Alive in a green crashing world - Donika Kelly "When the Fact of Your Gaze Means Nothing, Then You Are Truly Alongside"

Climb the stalk of early winter - Donika Kelly "Winter Poem"

Makes of our bodies a mirror - Donika Kelly "Winter Poem"


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My soul a thin-slotted door - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"

After all my wildness turned to white - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"

A bride burning like her own planet - Vandana Khanna "Because You Forgot Me, I Am Weird in the World"

A kind of love always caught in the underworld - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 1"

Because they like you better lonely - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 2"

Creation isn't for the faint of heart - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 2"

Let him fashion you from sandalwood - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 2"

The reluctant who turn their backs on wooded fires - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 3"

Jeweled deer in headlights - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 3"

The hum of incarnation swarming my tongue - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 3"

Breaks apart like honey in the mouth - Vandana Khanna "Creation Myth part 3"

Blessed by gravel and dust - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 1"

My bones, traitors who dream of fire - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"

With knots in my veins, thorns on my tongue - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"

All those mistold stories for destiny - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"

Heartache on my skin like an old burn - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"

Dragged through dirt and honey and pine - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 3"

Let the birds build nests out of your lies - Vandana Khanna "Fable"

Songs of burning line your throat - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"

You forget the music your own voice makes - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"

Deep in the wooded muscle of your heart - Vandana Khanna "For Some Girls It's Impossible"

With your fake summer of half-thawed hives - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess as Jilted Lover"

Put on the shelf to gather regret - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess as Jilted Lover"

In a river a hundred years wide - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess as Jilted Lover"

Held the world together with your teeth - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Banished"

Changed with the soft heat of your dreams - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Banished"

Be mistaken for someone you once loved - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"

On the weary grass that grows near your heart - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"

Sweet and bleak under a halo of stars - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Calls a Truce"

A constellation in the absence of the moon - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Erasure prologue"

Even the trees dared not move - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Erasure prologue"

And there are dangers worse than you know - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Erasure part 3"

Hidden in a drawer of wilt and weeds - Vandana Khanna "Goddess in the Dark"

Practiced how to hold the moon's broken bowl - Vandana Khanna "Goddess in the Dark"

Hold time in place under her tongue - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Left Behind"

The crows mournful at the mouth of the cave - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Left Behind"

Ate leaves until your jaw ached with ash - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

Buried the names you once were called - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

Never enough to fill the hole your doubt dug - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

All those false steps around the fire - Vandana Khanna "Goddess Out of Favor"

Found me with night in my teeth - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"

One lightning storm away from igniting - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"

Caged by the brittle twigs of my ribs - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Remade"

Histories peeled from your palms, line by line - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Reveals What It Takes to Be Holy"

Let you cut your teeth on my heart - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"

A black forest beating out of time - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"

Beating me out of this world - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Shows up Late for the End-Of-The-World Party"

A handful of thorns, a bit of marigold dust - Vandana Khanna "The Goddess Tires of Being Holy"

Arms filled with sickles and swords - Vandana Khanna "Hindu Mythology in Shorthand"

Pinned the sky with arrows of fire - Vandana Khanna "Hindu Mythology in Shorthand"

Hear the dusk burning from the sky - Vandana Khanna "In Captivity, Sita Contemplates Fidelity"

Invent me in the half-opened eye of night - Vandana Khanna "Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation"

Stripped down to the brown of my mind - Vandana Khanna "Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation"

A stranger, spine whittled to shadow - Vandana Khanna "Monologue for a Goddess in Her First Incarnation"

To light me quick as a fickle flame - Vandana Khanna "Name Calling"

A trophy pinned with dead flowers and scorn - Vandana Khanna "Novice"

Held together by sap and spiderweb - Vandana Khanna "On the Eve of Being Reincarnated"

Nettles caught on hem and hair - Vandana Khanna "On the Eve of Being Reincarnated"

Find our story where the lines meet - Vandana Khanna "On the Eve of Being Reincarnated"

Your name scrapes against thick-edged leaves - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"

I've written my name in vermilion so you won't forget - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"

The sharp silver of a mended heart - Vandana Khanna "Parvati: A Wife's Mantra"

Left my blessings to rust in the rain - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"

Ruined by nothing but my thoughts - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"

Slip unnoticed between this world and the next - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Fails the First Test of Being Holy"

How many times must we rewind - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Laments Her Reincarnation"

Each time we meet something gets subtracted - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Laments Her Reincarnation"

Weave twigs in my hair for clips - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

Make believe mushrooms are pearls - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

Sheathe my feet in slippers of dried mud - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

An empty bowl careful with my wanting - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

Wind the hot gnaw of hunger into a tight spool - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Practices Her Austerities"

My own constellation of pathetic disasters - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Rewrites Myth"

Built my loneliness twig by twig - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Rewrites Myth"

Even the peacocks refuse to stay - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"

My lips' chapped mantra of mud - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"

Bathed with the debris of dried leaves - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"

Errant and black as my will - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"

Offer you a dowry of plucked lotus - Vandana Khanna "Parvati Tires of Waiting"

In the old language of dust and mud and stars - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

All the doors slammed shut at the end of the world - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

His doubt covers them like unforgiving ash - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

An ancient meadow made wild with onion - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

All their sour history turned to rot - Vandana Khanna "Reconciliation"

Let them come for what's left - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

A chorus of bone, river and soot - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

Our love double-knotted, saddle-stitched - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

Cut them clean with my bite - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

The jungle we made in blame - Vandana Khanna "Remnants of the Goddess"

Skip every lunch for an eternity - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as a Girl Conceding"

Still tasting of small poisons - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as a Girl Conceding"

Dead bees falling from your mouth - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as a Girl Conceding"

Hide the broken halo of dead bees - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as a Girl Conceding"

Hair in needles of light and heat - Vandana Khanna "Self-Portrait as Goddess after the Fire"

Tethered by fence and sidewalk - Vandana Khanna "Sita's First Kiss with Suburban Landscape"

In a haze of honeysuckle and wasp - Vandana Khanna "Sita's First Kiss with Suburban Landscape"

Who builds the world without you - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

Then treats you like the second flower he sees - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

Against shadows of all that burning - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

Who pushes you back toward the fire - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

A wilt that can't stop weeping sap - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

With his name crumbling hungry in your mouth - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

Make your dreams bigger than his sky - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

Brighter than his favorite constellation - Vandana Khanna "Unhappy Ending"

The forest left its branches inher chest - Vandana Khanna "Why Sita Is Chosen"

Practices bending to the wind - Vandana Khanna "Why Sita Is Chosen"

Ginger and bitter roots growing at her ankles - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"

With my pried-open prayers full of silt - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"

Someone to smooth the sharp thorn of my head - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"

A body that hums in contrary light - Vandana Khanna "A world like this hates"


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Of sea and land the monarch - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph

Be acquainted with this secret - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph

Leave alike both grief and joy - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph

Whether Union or Separation - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph

So anxious in your heart - Khushal Khan Khattak "[Know thou well this world its state...]" transl. by C.E. Biddulph


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An oar touches the water's rim - Kevin Killian "Deep Red"

A shore strewn with protozoa bracken - Kevin Killian "Deep Red"

Within touching distance of the doorknob - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"

The lintel black with absence and size - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"

Flood the house with darkness - Kevin Killian "The Door into Darkness"

May sun spattering them with pixels - Kevin Killian "Free"

Till our bleeding feet spurt compassion - Kevin Killian "Free"


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Then said he would never steal apples again - M.K. "Johnny and the Apples" [Bed-Time Stories, 1914]

Thro' the sad echoes of pale Memory's cave - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

With the leaden weight of sorrowing years - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Shows a rainbow hope to quell all idle fears - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

The dim phantoms of o'er shadowed pleasures - Mrs. R.B.K. "To --" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]

Its fragile refined petal's belligerent fragrance - Margit Kaffka "Father" transl. by Laura Schiff

Weave a whole roof to the mountain - Kakuhaku "Sennin Poem" (translated by Ezra Pound and possibly others, attribution unclear)

The shore has no choice - Imaikalani Kalahele "Contact Zone"

Accept whatever the tides bring - Imaikalani Kalahele "Contact Zone"

Why does the sun not have eyes? - Rahile Kamal "Kamal Has Gone" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

A crack extends from horizon to horizon - Shilpa Kamat "Consequences"

Its shadow glued to everything - Shilpa Kamat "Consequences"

Die where there is no earth - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"

His body is the sky - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"

Made of everything that has fallen from Heaven - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"

There will be no sky - W. Todd Kaneko "Where the Sky Meets the Earth"

Moonlit lanterns line the serene currents - Yuna Kang "Funeral for a Star"

Drift tediously to the end of the world - Yuna Kang "Funeral for a Star"

To finish being nothing - Yuna Kang "Funeral for a Star"

When we knew that no more ships would come - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"

My yellow gun still humming with golden bees - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"

The last beings of the blue star on all spheres of the Sun - Raimo Kangasniemi "October 2026: The End of the Picnic"

Hip broken under the weight of time - Anoma Kanie "All that You Have Given Me, Africa" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

With the lining of the universe - Bhanu Kapli "Collude"

For a beloved who never arrived - Bhanu Kapli "Collude"

Measures dawn by absence of desire - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"

Depends on how alone you feel - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"

The melody Time whets its teeth with - Karan Kapoor "Time Is a Motherfucker"

Entrusted to the bodyguard of the temple - Manal Kara "[Country people enjoy dogs ...]"

Quietness of fragile movement - Zoe Karelli "Presences" transl. by Kimon Friar

Trying to paint the sea - Jeff Kass "Oh, Splotch of Blue Paint"

Ask for a taste of luck - Kassia "Selected Epigrams" transl. from Byzantine Greek by Patrick Diehl

If I give up on consequences - Tobi Kassim "A Blind Spot, Awash"

The first mercy of diving - Tobi Kassim "A Blind Spot, Awash"

Unfold in many colors - Susan Katz "Jungle Concert"

Can call a rainbow close - Susan Katz "Rainbow Lorikeets"

We speak only in brooms - Leora Kava "pronunciation"

Repeat each stone syllable - Leora Kava "pronunciation"

Sounded out by ant feet - Leora Kava "pronunciation"

All the other ways of saying history - Leora Kava "pronunciation"

Die before the shears of Atropos - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

When wild tears can flow - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

On eager wing of Hope we soar - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

The dregs of days that follow - Julia Kavanagh "Sonnet"

Vexed with prying silver beam his crimson dream - Elsa Kazi "India--Entertaing Twilight"

My wandering heart returned to stay - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"

That sing to sleep the playful twilight - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"

Entranced by calm of midnight hours - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"

Aspen's conspiring laughter - Arlene Keizer "Canopy"

A witness to his legerdemain - Arlene Keizer "Canopy"

Working hard to deny the fact of bones - Christopher Kennedy "Ghost in the Land of Skeletons"

Your life a folded telescope - X.J. Kennedy "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"

Laying waste a field of daisies - X.J. Kennedy "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"

Takes its time unraveling - X.J. Kennedy "The Purpose of Time Is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once"

Like rooted oak and pine - William J. Kershaw "The Indian's Salute to His Country"

I'll go one better in raising the wind - H.J. Kesson "The Legend of the Lincoln Imp"

Legitimate sport for exuberant wit - H.J. Kesson "The Legend of the Lincoln Imp"

Wind of the wild sweet morning - Arthur Ketchum "The Wind's Word"

Whispering wind of the shadow - Arthur Ketchum "The Wind's Word"

No praise for the hand that harms me - Emily Khilfeh "Ekphrasis On "The New York Times" Headline "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom""

Praise not the wasp & the paper nest - Emily Khilfeh "Ekphrasis On "The New York Times" Headline "Understanding the Middle East Through the Animal Kingdom""

Exist in crystalline silence - Jill Khoury "Sleep Hygiene"

Do not build your bed on dictionaries - Jill Khoury "Sleep Hygiene"

Be free of lye, lime, and liars - Jill Khoury "Sleep Hygiene"

As the heated banks of a river - Faye Kicknosway "And He Did Not Know Her"

Not even smoke or ashes - Faye Kicknosway "And He Did Not Know Her"

Not even stones grow - Faye Kicknosway "He Has Been Threshed Out"

Until her throat got dusty - Faye Kicknosway "I Don't Know Her"

The silver charms of his dull art - Henry Killigrew "Song [While Morpheus thus does gently lay]"

And from the clouds will fetch thee down - Henry Killigrew "Song [While Morpheus thus does gently lay]"

No power can make this kingdom less - Henry Killigrew "Song [While Morpheus thus does gently lay]"

Can never remake the thing I have destroyed - Aline Murray Kilmer "Shards"

Called down wind to shatter - Aline Murray Kilmer "Shards"

May its waters cover me - Aline Murray Kilmer "Shards"

Distinguish capitalism from cannibalism - Jessica Kim "Montage"

In all the ways an apocalypse can be - Jessica Kim "Montage"

Slicing peaches in the backyard - Jessica Kim "Montage"

To know of violence is to somersault into it - Jessica Kim "Montage"

Meet him on the far side of the willow - Mihee Kim "time travel"

Climbs the tower of reincarnation - Mihee Kim "time travel"

How we fever the dark's bones - Willie Lee Kinard III "Aubade: Nocturne"

Convince the night to do our bidding - Willie Lee Kinard III "Aubade: Nocturne"

The rift of us unfolding - Willie Lee Kinard III "Aubade: Nocturne"

Live in a swamp in my heart - Leah Kindler "Why I Write Poetry"

Everyone who didn't eat breakfast - Leah Kindler "Why I Write Poetry"

Rebuild myself around them - Leah Kindler "Why I Write Poetry"

Nothing to eat but food - Ben King "The Pessimist"

Nothing to breathe but air - Ben King "The Pessimist"

Nothing to weep but tears - Ben King "The Pessimist"

The richest flowers blowing - James King "The Lake Is at Rest"

Delight in the glories that brighten - James King "The Lake Is at Rest"

What might tend to betray - James King "The Lake Is at Rest"

List of things to banish - Mia King "Abracadabra"

Summon aid to help with banishing - Mia King "Abracadabra"

Can be dreamed up and shot down - Mia King "Abracadabra"

Include forms and fantasies - Mia King "Abracadabra"

In the embrace of the same two seas - Mina King "In Pursuit of Dawn"

Endure in pursuit of dawn - Mina King "In Pursuit of Dawn"

In the comfort of a true isolated system - Natasha King "The First Perpetual Motion Machine"

And we never gave her fuel - Natasha King "The First Perpetual Motion Machine"

In defiance of all laws of thermodynamics - Natasha King "The First Perpetual Motion Machine"

If the shadow is golden - Rosamond S. King "Breathe. As in. (shadow)"

As inhale assuming exhale - Rosamond S. King "Breathe. As in. (shadow)"

Prefer crossed out, scribbled over monuments - Rosamond S. King "Do not trust the eraser"

Where sea grass and spirit hair grow - Rosamond S. King "Sea Garden"

combs loose static from my hair - Aristilde Kirby "Daria Ukiyo-e"

gyre with dead fire alarm tears - Aristilde Kirby "Daria Ukiyo-e"

Tracking the monsters that trouble their thoughts - Merie Kirby "Mother"

Unable to keep the lights on - Merie Kirby "Mother"

Forty years' strange winds had fanned - William Kirby "The Sparrows"

I'm a tiger in the rain - Sarah Kirsch "Sad Day in Berlin" transl. by Gerda Mayer

And sit down among honest seagulls - Sarah Kirsch "Sad Day in Berlin" transl. by Gerda Mayer

Break apart a rotting ladder - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"

A pistol tucked into a stranger's belt - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"

Black mold along the foundation - Sophie Klahr "Like Nebraska"

Smudge our vistas - Becca Klaver "Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie"

Hashtags of interiority - Becca Klaver "Manifesto of the Lyric Selfie"

With dusk's slow bleed - Nate Klug "Jasmine"

In the final minutes before remorse - Nate Klug "Jasmine"

Flutters and drifts, like sympathy - Nate Klug "Jasmine"

Inserting a variation in the season - Nate Klug "Lonely Planet"

Only the foundation of good intentions - Hallie Knight "To Rebuild"

Three dollars for their shoes - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"

Might swallow two whales - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"

From spiders learn to warp their looms - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"

Lightning-rods for plumes - Henry Coggswell Knight "Lunar Stanzas"

Sleep beneath leaves curling like ribbons - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"

Until light is the holy word - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"

Bury my dreams first thing in the morning - E.J. Koh "This Birthday"

A dragon brood clutches with brutal claws - Gertrud Kolmar "Paris" transl. by David Kipp

My face a burning bush or wheel - Virginia Konchan "Black Hole"

Eros of the unthought, undreamed - Virginia Konchan "Black Hole"

Eating nails for breakfast - Virginia Konchan "Ubi Sunt"

Steadfast as small change - Steve Kowit "The Prodigal Son's Brother"

The knot fell open of itself - Steve Kowit "When He Pressed His Lips"

Begins in a different darkness - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"

And sound, like ropes of heat - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"

Every aching word we whispered - Nancy Kuhl "Family Secret"

A smear of hot pink on the asphalt - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"

Stood with the other bridesmaids in champagne - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"

Will we always unknow each other in this way? - Anja Mei-Ping Kuipers "After a Rochester Wedding"

Frees his thoughts to soar - Kuo P'u "Poem on the Wandering Immortal" transl. by Burton Watson

The years of the tortoise and the crane - Kuo P'u "Poem on the Wandering Immortal" transl. by Burton Watson

Mimicking the harrowing of my heart - Jordan Kurella "This Tree Is a Eulogy"

Our dominoes smiled greeting - Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin "Night Was Done" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinksky

Denying night's strange memories - Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin "Night Was Done" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinksky

Saw the nimbus on each fish - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"

The cavernous spaces of her mind - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"

Scrawled and chalked in her head - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"

The act of crying was a privilege - Haesong Kwon "Thank God for Hard Feelings"


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What the soul has made suffice - Courtney Kampa "Ars Balletica"

Like a fist when you open your hand - Courtney Kampa "Ars Balletica"

Over every awful kind of love - Courtney Kampa "Ars Balletica"

Need for other hearts broken differently - Courtney Kampa "Ars Biologica"

His arms a gate in ruin - Courtney Kampa "Bella Figura"

Like many glassy pieces of an argument - Courtney Kampa "Cartography"

Like the little gifts shame gives us - Courtney Kampa "Confiteor"

Aware of being outnumbered by the spoons - Courtney Kampa "Credo"

Trained to love the blade - Courtney Kampa "Hunger"

Eight different options for hello - Courtney Kampa "Inventory of Half-Burnt Offerings"

As large as its exceptions - Courtney Kampa "Law of Large Numbers"


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A factory line where molten lead spilled - Mary Karr "All This and More"

The red eyes of a friend you cursed - Mary Karr "All This and More"

Dark in our bodies - Mary Karr "Animistic Anatomy"

The broad rivers of the heart - Mary Karr "Animistic Anatomy"

On the wide night's manifest - Mary Karr "Belongings"

Went deepest from the dark of me - Mary Karr "Belongings"

I am the rod to their lightning - Mary Karr "The Blessed Mother Complains to the Lord Her God on the Abundance of Brokenness She Receives"

The ruby sun feel from a cloud's bent claws - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

Sat unmoving and alert amid devouring light - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

Erasing the edges of herself every day - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

While her parents redrew her secretly into being - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

Emptied herself into that blazing child - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl"

And stared a hundred million miles - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl""

The flaming tower we all dared to jump from - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl - Mary Karr "The Burning Girl""

The narrow road I hoped to reach - Mary Karr "The Century's Worst Blizzard"

Knives hierarchical in a glass case - Mary Karr "Country Fair"

Some outward form of inner scorn - Mary Karr "Country Fair"

Sparks skittered overhead in a lightning web - Mary Karr "Country Fair"

Once our skulls shut up their nasty talk - Mary Karr "Country Fair"

So my poisoned soul announced - Mary Karr "County Fair"

Bearing the weight of a whole self - Mary Karr "County Fair"

To want no more than what we had - Mary Karr "County Fair"

So as not to scorch us with your glory - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: Christ Human"

Relinquishes self and will and want - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: Christ Human"

Grieving on his rock under olive trees - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

Poured the vial of poison into the betrayer's ear - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

The cracked earth radiated out for miles - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

Who stared up into the same punctured sky - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Garden"

The far star points of his pinned extremities - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

Black ice and squid ink - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

Lonely in that void even for pain - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

The stone fist of his heart began to bang - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

As warm water shatters at birth - Mary Karr "Descending Theology: The Resurrection"

Divide the world into increasingly small squares - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

Found it in a spider's web at dawn - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

Touched its head in poisonous salute - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

Before returning to its sticky jigsaw - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

That little fence against the war with dark - Mary Karr "Diogenes Invents a Game"

What sad nights I'll cradle in my lap - Mary Karr "Diogenes Passes the Time"

Punched the saddest numbers on the jukebox - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

Who mops the four corners of my world - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

A ring of keys that can open any door - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

Some rigamarole they hired cheap - Mary Karr "Diogenes the Bartender Closes Up"

Warring factions agreed up the date and final form - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

If the dead would come or be left a forwarding address - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Postulate the exact shade of the astral self - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Rocketed copies of the decree to paradise - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Citizens readied for celestial ascent - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Aroma of basil and tangerine washed over - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

And flung the planets over his shoulder - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

A wisteria poked its lank blossoms through the cloudbank - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

Then vanished in puffs of luminous smoke - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

The journey lasting more than ten lifetimes - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

A mauve vine corkscrewed up from the deep oblivion - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

The singed fume of things beautiful, noble, and wrong - Mary Karr "Disappointments of the Apocalypse"

As Satan spider-like stalked the orb of dark - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Surrounding Eden for a wormhole into paradise - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Sailed a soul like a lit arrow to inhabit me - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Whose scalpel cut a lightning bolt - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

My fingers grow past crayon outlines - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

When my thirst got great enough to ask - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Some jade wave buoyed me forward - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

A garden inside my own ribs aflourish - Mary Karr "Disgraceland"

Stare hard enough at the fabric of night - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

Already scratched your name on a bullet - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

Confident there are no gods out there - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

Blind to your own eye's intricate machine - Mary Karr "Field of Skulls"

Body-surfed the hollow waves - Mary Karr "For My Children"

At night I travelled everywhere on LSD - Mary Karr "For My Children"

Saw my entire history in an avocado seed - Mary Karr "For My Children"

A quick replay of all my dawns - Mary Karr "For My Children"

Rise to your unfamiliar light - Mary Karr "The Last of the Brooding Miserables"

Which earns but lessened gravity - Mary Karr "Lifecycle Stairmaster"

Where a cigarette is my flashlight - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

All night I've untangled alleys - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

Like messages that will never be caught - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

Paris makes me speak this strange language - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

I shake the whole world dark again - Mary Karr "Lipstick"

Went to worship at the cathedral of emptiness - Mary Karr "Mall Crawl"

In the freezerspill of smoky Arctic starlight - Mary Karr "Metaphysique du Mal"

Afloat in their ancient miasma - Mary Karr "Metaphysique du Mal"

Just erasing the pages of her diary - Mary Karr "The New Year"

Forgotten news whipped against parking meters - Mary Karr "The New Year"

Against the door to heaven - Mary Karr "The Pallbearer"

While we felt all muscles tighten for escape - Mary Karr "The Patient"

Each white second was knit into a sheet - Mary Karr "The Patient"


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Your blood in my veins - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

So afraid of my voice - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

So capable of love - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Places sadness shouldn’t live - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

From the same aching blood - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Love at first remembrance - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

The only word your mouth remembers - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Your most beautiful regret - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

I am the water you need - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Don't come here with expectations - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Tears my eyes can't carry - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Paying for sins I don’t remember - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

At the feet of those who broke you - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

In love with your solitude - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

A museum of natural disasters - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

When your spirit has crushed mountains - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Like flowers ache for spring - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"

Stop searching for why - Rupi Kaur "Milk and Honey"


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A single ant frozen in the dunes - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"

Stunned by sweetness - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"

These clouds that make my heart jump - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"

As she remembers persimmons - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"

Separate as the trees they fell from - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"

Bubbles in a bathtub slowly swelling - Annie Kim "Eros the Contagion"


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Spring's thousand tender greens - Jane Kenyon "The Clearing"

Benign in the dark - Jane Kenyon "Dark Morning: Snow"

Like a species of pain - Jane Kenyon "Father and Son"

The melancholy meaning of open satchels - Jane Kenyon "Going Away"

Does not leave us comfortless - Jane Kenyon "Let Evening Come"

Makes a mad, elemental tea - Jane Kenyon "Letter to Alice"

More out of habit than desire - Jane Kenyon "Letter to Alice"

Turned still further inward - Jane Kenyon "Lines for Akhmatova"

In my pillar of light - Jane Kenyon "On the Aisle"

Wind plays the spy - Jane Kenyon "Small Early Valentine"

The soundlessness of winter - Jane Kenyon "Spring Changes"

Serene above springs - Jane Kenyon "Spring Snow"

Rain, relentless as obsession - Jane Kenyon "Three Crows"

On the edge of another's nest - Jane Kenyon "Three Crows"

Like midwives and undertakers - Jane Kenyon "Three Songs at the End of Summer"

Living indifferent lives - Jane Kenyon "Wash Day"

Makes a brittle rustling - Jane Kenyon "We Let the Boat Drift"

Between disintegrating thoughts - Jane Kenyon "While We Were Arguing"


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Believe a crown of kingfishers - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

Their spines tuned for ascent - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

Split with blue light - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

Whose blue light rattles sky - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

A crown, a wound, a consequence of birds - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

Strung beneath our star - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"

Believe a curve in the road - Sally Rosen Kindred "Crown"


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Scatter these murderous ghosts - Joyce Kilmer "Absinthe"

Bitter tides of sorrow roll - Joyce Kilmer "Age Comes A-Wooing"

And in the ashes laid - Joyce Kilmer "Age Comes A-Wooing"

Told by Homer once - Joyce Kilmer "Age Comes A-Wooing"

Took her praise for a wreath of bay - Joyce Kilmer "Alchemy"

And tears but nourish - Joyce Kilmer "As Winds That Blow Against a Star"

Winds that blow against a star - Joyce Kilmer "As Winds That Blow Against a Star"

From every rose a spider - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"

From nets of sticks and strings - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"

To feel the sunlight's zest - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"

From hostile fortune's bolts - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"

Dread the Winter's threatenings - Joyce Kilmer "The Ballade of Butterflies"

And Lilith roses dipped in wine - Joyce Kilmer "Ballade of My Lady's Beauty"

Through what wild ways of mystery - Joyce Kilmer "Chevely Crossing"

Through stars and starless space - Joyce Kilmer "Chevely Crossing"

That you wander forth alone - Joyce Kilmer "Chevely Crossing"

Who tread the jewelled streets - Joyce Kilmer "Chevely Crossing"

Before his singing time is done - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"

All wounds of Time - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"

Barren days, stale loves and broken spells - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"

We are wed with woe - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"

Not even April's taste is sweet - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"

And cypress wreaths above thy head - Joyce Kilmer "The Clouded Sun"

With weary voice and violin - Joyce Kilmer "Court Musicians"

Bloomed to fair completeness - Joyce Kilmer "Eadem"

Young July with all her flowers - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"

Even bees make holiday - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"

The kindly nurse of her who is to reign - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"

An hundred centaurs come - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"

Pan rides the foremost one - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"

Through surging floods of song - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"

Sue before your crystal throne - Joyce Kilmer "For a Birthday"

Has neither need nor power - Joyce Kilmer "For a Child"

With ashen bread and wine of tears - Joyce Kilmer "The Fourth Shepherd"

The mighty lyre of earth - Joyce Kilmer "George Meredith"

The lore of soul-compelling song - Joyce Kilmer "George Meredith"

In some strong enchanted lens - Joyce Kilmer "George Meredith"

On deathless knowledge reared - Joyce Kilmer "George Meredith"

Our grief a radiant gleam - Joyce Kilmer "George Meredith"

By rain and sunshine reared - Joyce Kilmer "The Grass in Madison Square"

Now decks the lawns of Heaven - Joyce Kilmer "The Grass in Madison Square"

Ragged cloak and tattered shoe - Joyce Kilmer "Imitation of Richepin's Ballade of the Beggars' King"

Burned to darkly golden hue- Joyce Kilmer "Imitation of Richepin's Ballade of the Beggars' King"

Dared to scorn untoward chance - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"

Daring and friendly souls - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"

Leads Dante to the happy stars - Joyce Kilmer "In a Book-Shop"

Takes a sheet of moonbeam - Joyce Kilmer "In Fairyland"

For Love forbids her death - Joyce Kilmer "In Memoriam: Florence Nightingale"

Vagabond shall you be - Joyce Kilmer "Jesus and the Summer Rain"

Hark to the thrush's trilling - Joyce Kilmer "The King's Ballad"

An unexhausted cup of day - Joyce Kilmer "Love's Lantern"

Love's rosary is ours - Joyce Kilmer "Love's Rosary"

And thought of no retreat - Joyce Kilmer "Love's Thoroughfare"

Through the burning vales of Hell - Joyce Kilmer "Love's Thoroughfare"

Of the night revels fair - Joyce Kilmer "Lullaby for a Baby Fairy"

Beneath a bracken sheet - Joyce Kilmer "The Mad Fiddler"

On a moonbeam throne - Joyce Kilmer "Madness"

Give welcome to my silent feet - Joyce Kilmer "Madness"

Wraiths of kisses newly dead - Joyce Kilmer "Matin"

Sorrowing from Eden's threshold came - Joyce Kilmer "Matin"

From my Eden turn in grief - Joyce Kilmer "Matin"

Wise in his own conceit - Joyce Kilmer "The Morning Meditations of Frere Hyacinthus"

With tears and sorrow marred - Joyce Kilmer "The Morning Meditations of Frere Hyacinthus"

Does not heed the angry lightning's wound - Joyce Kilmer "Mount Houvenkopf"

This young companion of an ancient star - Joyce Kilmer "Mount Houvenkopf"

From the dream-laden moon - Joyce Kilmer "Prayer to Bragi"

The honey from forests of flowers - Joyce Kilmer "Prayer to Bragi"

Charms the grateful skies - Joyce Kilmer "The Rosary"

Never heeds the violets or lilies - Joyce Kilmer "Said the Rose"

Who wed a flower wife - Joyce Kilmer "Said the Rose"

The wounds of Love's consuming flame - Joyce Kilmer "St. Laurence"

Petals of moon-kissed roses - Joyce Kilmer "Slender Your Hands"

All the blossom-breathing South - Joyce Kilmer "The Sorrows of King Midas"

Strange colors on the foaming sea - Joyce Kilmer "Star o' Love"

With quivering wand of silver-white - Joyce Kilmer "Star o' Love"

And sprinkles sunfilled wine - Joyce Kilmer "Summer of Love"

Love's ancient magic run - Joyce Kilmer "Summer of Love"

And every daisy dies - Joyce Kilmer "Theology"

In a carven censer of burnished words - Joyce Kilmer "Thurifer"

A golden chain of rhythm - Joyce Kilmer "Thurifer"

Could not vex the merry stars - Joyce Kilmer "To a Young Poet Who Killed Himself"

From whirling atoms to evolve - Joyce Kilmer "Transfiguration"

With the starlight shod - Joyce Kilmer "Transfiguration"

A nest of robins in her hair - Joyce Kilmer "Trees"

Who intimately lives with rain - Joyce Kilmer "Trees"

A valley sweet with rose and vine - Joyce Kilmer "Tribute"

The tale of all my blissful hours - Joyce Kilmer "Tribute"

Against the kind and awful reign - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

The grateful armistice of sleep - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

Waves madly in the face of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

The grave, incurious stars - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

And quiet holds the weary feet - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

Take God's gracious gift of night - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

What king must be abroad so late? - Joyce Kilmer "The Twelve-Forty-Five"

Frogs, pipe loud your song - Joyce Kilmer "The Use of Night"

Dreamless sleep your share - Joyce Kilmer "The Use of Night"

Roses made of crimson light - Joyce Kilmer "A Valentine"

Violets fade with the May - Joyce Kilmer "Villanelle of the Players"

Grace of your memory cry - Joyce Kilmer "Villanelle of the Players"

Actors in motley array - Joyce Kilmer "Villanelle of the Players"

The harmonies of Seraphs chanting - Joyce Kilmer "The Way of Love"

Twining wreaths of Heaven - Joyce Kilmer "Wayfarers"

Dwelt among the pleasant stars - Joyce Kilmer "Wherever, Whenever"

No gratitude to wanton chance - Joyce Kilmer "Wherever, Whenever"

Stars made of molten music - Joyce Kilmer "White Bird of Love"

In the orchard of dream-fruit fair - Joyce Kilmer "White Bird of Love"

That never a wind may reach - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

Sunless waters beside a sunless beach - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

Wear only Death's livid, dreadful white - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

Terror that broke their vigil now - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

We are the ships of sorrow - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

Obscure and still and white - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

So through the lagging centuries - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

Jove bless his flashing knife - Joyce Kilmer "With a Mirror"


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In a variety show of deathbed ways - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

Cash in for forever love - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

In the face of never lasting - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

Never Icarus with wax melting - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

Still playing in videos past her presence - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

Reorganized my face in the mirror - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

This testament offers no sound or silence - Amy King "Ancient Sunlight"

The mother of material travel - Amy King "Baudelaire in Airports"

More than alchemy's process - Amy King "Baudelaire in Airports"

Agents and actors incognito - Amy King "Baudelaire in Airports"

Organic abrupt vampire of himself - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

Affection with a soul made of bone - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

Shake fists against the failings of insects - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

Of castles and the fruits of shadows - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

Swampy corners of decay united - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

A ghost in born-again tatters - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

Names that soften at moon - Amy King "The Marble Faun"

Acts as an antenna for the sun - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Eating the wallpaper's yellow - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Your string between tin cans - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

The windows of the soul - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Err on the side of humanity - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Where headstones claw up through the clouds - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Pulling their fibers into blankets - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Sleet and silver smiles - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Slip from a reel of translation - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

How we cater to loneliness - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

A mesh of moonrock's lapis soup - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

Honey lasts best in the future - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"

I painted your name in lace - Amy King "You Make the Culture"

Even gravity works at night - Amy King "You Make the Culture"

On the carpet of impossibility - Amy King "You Make the Culture"

This immediate need for movement - Amy King "You Make the Culture"

The first to fill in its spaces - Amy King "You Make the Culture"


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Came to us infinitely far - Suji Kwock Kim "Fugue"

A ghost from tomorrow - Suji Kwock Kim "Fugue"

Galloping from eternity to time - Suji Kwock Kim "Fugue"

When the road led nowhere - Suji Kwock Kim "Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border"

On the other side of the war - Suji Kwock Kim "Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border"


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Never shy of flowers - Kim Unsong “Blessed”

Challenge and surrender - Kim Unsong “Cherry Blossom”

My intuition seldom travels - Kim Unsong “Close in View”

Allowing evils to pass by - Kim Unsong “Confession to God (3)”

Calculating speed and memory - Kim Unsong “Cybersyndrome (1)”

Forgetting destiny - Kim Unsong “Destiny”

Die like the falling leaf - Kim Unsong “Detachment”

Go free in detachment - Kim Unsong “Detachment”

In the sea of agony - Kim Unsong “Dharmas”

Legacies of positive echoes - Kim Unsong “Echoes”

Blooming in complaisance - Kim Unsong “Elusive”

Smoke screens of oratory - Kim Unsong “Expand Territory”

Transcending the ordeals - Kim Unsong “Faith”

Under cascades of sunlight - Kim Unsong “Golden Poppy”

The tiring processes of ceremony - Kim Unsong “Humor Mill”

Out of pressures - Kim Unsong “It's Nirvana”

No yesterdays remain - Kim Unsong “It's Today”

Continue paying the devil - Kim Unsong “Karma”

Never eternal - Kim Unsong “Life Candle”

My life candle burning still - Kim Unsong “Life Candle”

When mind is void - Kim Unsong “Life Void”

Fought fearful odds - Kim Unsong “Mandela”

Embracing oceans and galaxies - Kim Unsong “My Spirits”

Their death inevitable - Kim Unsong “Natural”

Through tunnels of torture - Kim Unsong “Nirvanic Rapture”

Straight under pressure - Kim Unsong “O Jackie O”

Smiling under tragedy - Kim Unsong “O Jackie O”

Majestic under pandemonium - Kim Unsong “O Jackie O”

Death is a one way street - Kim Unsong “One Way Street”

Souls fly free - Kim Unsong “Photons & Souls”

Enslaved in tight frames - Kim Unsong “The Poor”

Surrounded by star dust - Kim Unsong “Pygmies”

Blind faith in despondence - Kim Unsong “Reality”

Under our great star - Kim Unsong “Silent Afar”

Run for vanity - Kim Unsong “Simple Life”

Less mindful of its worth - Kim Unsong “Sojourn”

Old virtues drying up - Kim Unsong “Sorry Souls”

Any soul tainted - Kim Unsong “Soul Tainted”

Proceed breaking harmony - Kim Unsong “Technology”

Reveals Cosmic virtue - Kim Unsong “Trees”

Endowed with finite life - Kim Unsong “Universality (Buddhatva)”

Words often harsh - Kim Unsong “World Cheerful”

In the light of saints - Kim Unsong “Worldly Taints”


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Trying to drown - Galway Kinnell "Break of Day"

Erupt into flower - Galway Kinnell "Cemetery Angels"

Memorize even into the grave - Galway Kinnell "Chamberlain's Porch"

To try out its backwards variations - Galway Kinnell "Chamberlain's Porch"

Not yet visible to the rest - Galway Kinnell "Conception"

Life's first, irreplaceable lover - Galway Kinnell "December Day in Honolulu"

Permanently into Their Vanishing Places - Galway Kinnell "Driftwood from a Ship"

Gathered and used again - Galway Kinnell "Fire in Luna Park"

Gasps of disintegration - Galway Kinnell "First Day of the Future"

To come up on the future - Galway Kinnell "First Day of the Future"

Of the permanent present - Galway Kinnell "First Day of the Future"

Living here in the future - Galway Kinnell "First Day of the Future"

Each leaving behind its print - Galway Kinnell "The Frog Pond"

Of smallest children grown - Galway Kinnell "The Frog Pond"

Mists of his own ashes - Galway Kinnell "The Fundamental Project of Technology"

That fell half unspoken - Galway Kinnell "The Fundamental Project of Technology"

Born already skillful - Galway Kinnell "The Fundamental Project of Technology"

Eliminate those who die - Galway Kinnell "The Fundamental Project of Technology"

From surplus of gratitude - Galway Kinnell "The Fundamental Project of Technology"

Sings past even the sadness that begins it - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"

Older than any poem - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"

Hear only his voice - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"

That chant of the beginning - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"

To laugh among all the screams - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"

Soon in nobody's memory - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"

Dead bells pounding - Galway Kinnell "Last Holy Fragrance"

The affirmative fire - Galway Kinnell "Middle of the Night"

What sleep would be like - Galway Kinnell "Middle of the Night"

The doors childhood almost opens - Galway Kinnell "Milk"

Risen bright into daybreak - Galway Kinnell "Mount Fuji at Daybreak"

Always more brilliant than the right - Galway Kinnell "The Olive Wood Fire"

And fly very brilliant back - Galway Kinnell "On the Oregon Coast"

Only vector of purpose - Galway Kinnell "The Past"

New to these winters - Galway Kinnell "The Road Between Here and There"

Hurt with mortal thought - Galway Kinnell "The Road Between Here and There"

Merely what vanishes - Galway Kinnell "The Road Between Here and There"

Faithfulness to a few - Galway Kinnell "The Road Between Here and There"

Lured by bones' memory - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

Right where time wants - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

In velocity if not in direction - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

Making walking like sleepwalking - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

Always intended to live forever - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

A language we can't speak yet - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

The world made of wishes - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

If not tomorrow then never - Galway Kinnell "The Seekonk Woods"

The bottom hem of nowhere - Galway Kinnell "The Shroud"

Back to that silent evening - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"

In low, silent voices - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"

Until what hastens went slower - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"

That dies inside the sparks - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"

Not to meet until heaven - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"

Under the memory of owls - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

Even all of forgetting - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

Becomes all one vast remembering - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

Through tears they see more clearly - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

In this puff of ecstatic dust - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

Living always in the same lifetime - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

Still in their elsewhere - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

Remembers its former beauty - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"


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Where the pheasant rules the nooning - Rudyard Kipling "Alnaschar and the Oxen"

Delivered from the shadows I pursue - Rudyard Kipling "Alnaschar and the Oxen"

Gave the Hyssop and Cedar their place - Rudyard Kipling "Banquet Night"

Through timeless arrogance of use - Rudyard Kipling "The Birthright"

The hour of watching and envy - Rudyard Kipling "The Centaurs"

Had us in charge for a thousand days - Rudyard Kipling "The Changelings"

Saw more than the nights could hide - Rudyard Kipling "The Changelings"

Hears the careless foot of man - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"

May not deal in doubt or pity - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"

Dare not leave a place for her - Rudyard Kipling "The Female of the Species"

Raw airs uncloven by speech - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"

When night was a new thing - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"

Their present all their future and their past - Rudyard Kipling "Gow's Watch"

Azrael's eyes upon her, Raphael's wings above - Rudyard Kipling "Jane's Marriage"

His forerunners who were not regarded - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"

Receiving the wound and the venom in one - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"

Made treaty with Time to stand still - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"

Truth, rising from the bottom of her well - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"

Beheld a phantom on unbalanced wings - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"

Facts beyond precedent and parallel - Rudyard Kipling "A Legend of Truth"

Lie down for an aeon or two - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"

Splash at a ten-league canvas - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"

With brushes of comet's hair - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"

And only the Master shall blame - Rudyard Kipling "L'Envoi"

To face the cruel looking-glass - Rudyard Kipling "The Looking-Glass"

For his tongue that shamed their swords - Rudyard Kipling "Rahere"

Which regards not taint or fall - Rudyard Kipling "Rahere"

Who tames the moonstruck tide - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Hours that grind us in our places - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Who launched our Ship of Fools - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Many anchors gave us - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Solemn rites to trivial deeds - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Builds a bulkhead 'twixt Despair and the Edge of Nothing - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Lit by the searchlights of the Pit - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

By every ancient mark our fathers used - Rudyard Kipling "The Supports"

Our ports of stranded pride - Rudyard Kipling "Sussex"

That breed huge oaks and old - Rudyard Kipling "Sussex"

Who received oppression and scorn for his wages - Rudyard Kipling "Untimely"

Comes through the blood of the vanguards who dreamed - Rudyard Kipling "Untimely"

The wine-press of the Wrath of God - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"

The lines of our cropped and mangled vines - Rudyard Kipling "The Vineyard"

Shut the road through the woods - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"

Weather and rain have undone it again - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"

Underneath the coppice and heath - Rudyard Kipling "The Way Through the Woods"


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The determined touch of softness - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

That ache and echo of planets - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

The prosecutor and defense of my own heart - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

To represent the shapes required of love - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

Could not honey my clay - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

The shape of our star days - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"

In the punch-clock of deep space - Halee Kirkwood "Self-Portrait as the Changeling"


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With nothing to conceal - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

With nothing to reveal - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

The name I hear is mine - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

Fears of the forgotten - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

In oblivion deferred - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

Where everything and nothing fits - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

O Small Room of Myself - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

Stories of experience - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

Relentlessly faithful - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"

Our stories all sound alike - John Koethe "The Sin of Pride"


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The devil was sharpening his blade - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Turning life into gray moss - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

But don't forgive my hands - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Unraveled this rainy night - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Flesh interrogating a stone - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

With the salt of love in my eyes - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Trying to hold too much light - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Out of four other shades of grace - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Firing bullets of wet light - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Could taste him in the dust - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

The usury of honey - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

In that air made of loneliness - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Eleven kinds of fear - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Without heart or history - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Questioned the evening star - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Inherited the benefit of the doubt - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

Lived in a room of mirrors - Yusef Komunyakaa "Autobiography of My Alter Ego"

The hills my brothers & I created - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

But we couldn't stop believing in iron - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

Vines strong as a dozen sharecroppers - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

Our wheelbarrow groaning under a new load - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

Iron left men bent so close to the earth - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

The ore under their breath weighed down the gray sky - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

Over trees with blooms too red to look at - Yusef Komunyakaa "Believing in Iron"

Lost in a limbo of slow water torture - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"

Condemned to circle contours of a god's state of mind - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"

A deck of cards shuffled by a pro - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"

You come forth like falling leaves - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"

How do you see into darkness? - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"

The shape of gone, of never been born - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blind Fish"

Would hold a swarm of words inside his belly - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Blues & sorrow song called out of the deep night - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Till the gods cried out in someone's sleep - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Discussing the weather with demons & angels - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Squinting down into iron grates - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Along the fast streets of luminous encounters - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Then walked out of himself dreaming - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

To turn a midnight corner & never come back - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

A look that shoved a blade into his heart - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

I know something about talking with ghosts - Yusef Komunyakaa "Blue Dementia"

Trust the water to break - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Body Remembers"

With sweetness shivering - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Body Remembers"

Because I know salt - Yusef Komunyakaa "Canticle"

Twelve ways to be wrong - Yusef Komunyakaa "Canticle"

Down to each numbered bone - Yusef Komunyakaa "Canticle"

Listened hours to the sea talk - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

It followed us along polluted beaches - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

Half lost in Van Gogh's swarm of colors - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

All his books & papers going to dust - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

Obscene because it was built to endure time - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

Stronger than their houses & altars - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

The seeds of okra in trade winds headed to a new world - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

I walked back into the throng of strangers - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

All their high gods knelt on the ground - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

There's a tyranny of language in my fluted bones - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

I'll break you most dearly with sweet words - Yusef Komunyakaa "Cape Coast Castle"

Shaped for secret oaths - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Clay Army"

Into the old lost seasons - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Clay Army"

Unbridled by time - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Clay Army"

Furnished with shadows - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Clay Army"

Memory the pigment of dust - Yusef Komunyakaa "Clouds"

Searching for property lines drawn in blood - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

A hint of resolve crisscrossing a border - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Find clues in the taste of breadfruit - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

The haze of Wall Street touching clouds of double consciousness - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Searching for clues to govern seagulls - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Henchmen busy with locks & chains - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

In a ghost schooner's nocturnal calm - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Someone who won't speak of milk & honey - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Beyond pillars of salt raised in a dream - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Broken, leaking deeds, songs & testaments - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Justice stood in the shoes of mercy - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Doubt was bandaged up & put to bed - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Craving wisdom, he bites into memory - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Moving from reverie to reverie - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Learning why one envies the octopus for its ink - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

How a man's skin becomes the final page - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"

Snow falling inside two minds - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

A touch of dawn was again nightfall - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

Their room furnished with scattered papers - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

Reflect the burning icy stars of poetry - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

Where privilege & squalor lived beneath the same ornate ceiling - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

Lit the air around those neoclassic nights - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

& anger almost kept them warm - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

Where tears brought them to laughter - Yusef Komunyakaa "Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova"

Rides a shadow at daybreak - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Devil Comes on Horseback"

A windmill of torches - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Devil Comes on Horseback"

Beg with words of the unborn - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Devil Comes on Horseback"

Hiding inside the black granite - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"

The profile of night slanted against morning - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"

Depending on the light to make a difference - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"

To find my own in letters like smoke - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"

Lost his right arm inside the stone - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"

In the black mirror a woman's trying to erase names - Yusef Komunyakaa "Facing It"

Sit in the ghostly chair in a big room of unnatural things - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

Before I entered their blue house for the third time - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

In raw wood & metal remembering her shape - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

A dance to take away hurt in memory - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

How Frida had risen to see her double world - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

I am dreams painted onto the skin - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

As one's body leaned on a promise - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

As a young woman who knew steel - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

Ask why he sold her painted visions - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

Paint a dark, salty blood of surreal skies & wet soil - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

Dewy blooms with a knowledge of her ancients - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

My body forever pierced by some iron spear - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

Casting it all in a mirror - Yusef Komunyakaa "Frida's Earth Mother"

Days of splintered shadows - Yusef Komunyakaa "Guernica"

Whispering a stone's promise - Yusef Komunyakaa "Guernica"

The brain's glacial weather - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Helmet"

To make the light pivot - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Helmet"

Made the shadows kneel - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Helmet"

Blur the club into a blue fantasia - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

As if a cat traversed my path beneath the evening star - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

Lost among November cotton flowers - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

The trumpet's almost kissed by enough pain - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

A few more years, a few more ghosts to embrace - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

Counting each drop of sweat paid in tribute - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

Jasmine rising from a valley somewhere in Egypt - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

A white moon opening countless false mouths of laughter - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

With the headlights of trucks aimed at their backs - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

The knowing scent hidden in each bloom - Yusef Komunyakaa "Jasmine"

Broken out of ice - Yusef Komunyakaa ‘from “The Last Bohemian of Avenue A”’

Speaking pain & joy - Yusef Komunyakaa ‘from “The Last Bohemian of Avenue A”’

At the foot of Babel - Yusef Komunyakaa ‘from “The Last Bohemian of Avenue A”’

Teach the shadows - Yusef Komunyakaa ‘from “The Last Bohemian of Avenue A”’

A goddess in a world mastered by repetition - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"

Pacing off light hidden in darkness - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"

An answer of the oldest unspoken question - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"

Listening for a falling star, a river running over stones - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"

The mitigated laws of kingdom, district, & tribe - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"

Crouches down inside her longing - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"

One great leap away from a wild, simple knowledge - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"

Blood-lit veins on leaves left quivering - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Leopard"

Out of dust & chance - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"

At a gate of truth in myth - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"

Lost themselves in reflected rivers - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"

Weighing the planet in his palm - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"

Can't unbutton promises - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"

Your effigy of moonlight - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"

Into a breathless country - Yusef Komunyakaa "Love in the Time of War"

Cutting black shapes into the sky - Yusef Komunyakaa "Nighthawks"

The wet silver of quick wings open against eternity - Yusef Komunyakaa "Nighthawks"

As if to erase an end with a beginning - Yusef Komunyakaa "Nighthawks"

Several lifetimes behind him - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"

Not sure of the paths & turns taken - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"

Woozy in a swarm of hues - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"

Could hear a drum underneath these voices - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"

Showed them the secret of stealing honey - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"

A hoot owl called to the moon - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"

He bowed to the shine of the gun - Yusef Komunyakaa "Ota Benga at Edenkraal"

Where the false terrain begins - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Panorama"

Unfurled in the wounded daylight - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Panorama"

Listen to the wind beg - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Surge"

The tree between me & a sniper's bullet - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

Telling me which foot to put down first - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

Deflecting the ricochet against that anarchy of dusk - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

Wrapped up in a woman's wild colors - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

Gleaming metal reflecting how it is to be broken - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

As we played some deadly game for blind gods - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

I'm still falling through its silence - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

Why the intrepid sun touched the bayonet - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

Something stood among those lost trees - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"

Embossed letters to ghosts - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"

Plumes of disbelieving dust - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"

When happiness is caught off guard - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"

Into tombs of burning silence - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"

Blinded by the moon's indifference - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Towers"

Save your heart from the crows - Yusef Komunyakaa "Warhorses"

As gods out of a dream - Yusef Komunyakaa "Warhorses"

Corralled by the dead - Yusef Komunyakaa "Warhorses"

Into an undreamt vista of stardust - Yusef Komunyakaa "Warhorses"

He has bribed the thorns - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Warlord's Garden"

Form a galaxy of fantasies - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Warlord's Garden"

A key to a door in the sky - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Sonorous as the queen bee's fat hum - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

The dragon trapped below iron, bricks, & wood - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Blue jays & redbirds wove light through leaves - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Something dead under the foundation - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Walk across the field of goldenrod and mustard weeds - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Burned sweat and salt into afternoon - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Wild geese moved like a wedge between sky and sagebrush - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Pyramids of russet sawdust formed - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Under corrugated blowpipes fifty feet high - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Controlling clocks on kitchen walls - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

His dreams slouched into an aftershock - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Oscillating dances in a broken room - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

A canvas zigzagged with questions - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

As dusky birds brushed blues into a montage - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

The psychosis behind Birth of a Nation - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Left the gladioli & zinnias maimed - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Double dares took root in night soil - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"

Belongs to a girl still burning inside my head - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"

A skirt of flames dances around her at dusk - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"

While she burns like a sack of dry ice - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"

A tiger under a rainbow at nightfall - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"

Burns like a shot of vodka - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"

A burning bush driven by a godawful wind - Yusef Komunyakaa "You and I Are Disappearing"


A bouquet of myrrh, viper flesh, & honey - Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung "from 'Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters'"

Back through the silver mirror - Yusef Komunyakaa and Laren McClung "from 'Trading Riffs to Slay Monsters'"


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Tomatoes in a steady splutter - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Summer squash and snap-beans gushed - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

October's last straggling days - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Ornate with worm-trail tracery - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Hear the steel strike stone - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Hear the song of their collision - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

This land is littered with granite - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Sparkled scatter of mica and stone chips - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Soft genealogy of birch bark and fiddleheads - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"

Silent stubborn brambles - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"


Empty bio on poets.org. No Wikipedia page. 2/21/24
No evidence to suggest this is the same poet as Amy King but, equally, only the middle initial and the separate poets.org entry to indicate otherwise. Can't find other poems credited to this author elsewhere.


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The warm, wet breath of apples - Ted Kooser "Applesauce"

Tethered only gently to this world - Ted Kooser "Bank Fishing for Bluegills"

In a nest of straw and baling twine - Ted Kooser "Barn Owl"

Wide eyes of welcome open to you - Ted Kooser "Barn Owl"

A jewel dead center in the heart - Ted Kooser "Barn Owl"

Each with a star at its heart - Ted Kooser "The Bluet"

Would give you whole fields of wild perfume - Ted Kooser "The Bluet"

Little patience with darkness - Ted Kooser "A Box of Pastels"

Only a measure of shadow - Ted Kooser "A Box of Pastels"

The warm dust of those colors - Ted Kooser "A Box of Pastels"

And reeled the years back empty - Ted Kooser "Casting Reels"

Run its roots out into the salty darkness - Ted Kooser "The Celery Heart"

A ruin of fallen columns bedded on ice - Ted Kooser "The Celery Heart"

And mummified for eons in a jar of brine - Ted Kooser "The Celery Heart"

Into the clouds of loose, lush roses - Ted Kooser "The China Painters"

As if their souls were bees - Ted Kooser "The China Painters"

Had been nothing but flowers - Ted Kooser "The China Painters"

Standing behind mirrored windows, disapproving - Ted Kooser "Chocolate Checkers"

Hauling the heavy bucket of dawn - Ted Kooser "The Early Bird"

The complicated, fading map of cures - Ted Kooser "Father"

And hold back the arms of the clock - Ted Kooser "For You, Friend,"

Strolling along on the outside of time - Ted Kooser "For You, Friend,"

Respectfully opening oak by oak - Ted Kooser "A Fox"

Deep as abandoned wells - Ted Kooser "Garage Sale"

Sunlight climbing a thread of spider's silk - Ted Kooser "A Glint"

Spider's silk in a gentle breeze - Ted Kooser "A Glint"

As if the sun were tuning the day - Ted Kooser "A Glint"

Precisely the color of dust - Ted Kooser "Grasshoppers"

Tinkering with irony - Ted Kooser "Grasshoppers"

Within the first order of wonders - Ted Kooser "Gyroscope"

Tipping forward into spring - Ted Kooser "Gyroscope"

Full of regret and sad stories - Ted Kooser "A Heart of Gold"

The highway of answers - Ted Kooser "Home Medical Dictionary"

A pain-rutted road - Ted Kooser "Home Medical Dictionary"

The slow river of fear - Ted Kooser "Home Medical Dictionary"

Showing their ribs to the wind - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"

Scholarly spiders relax in their carrels - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"

Having related one thing to another - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"

Having tied all the loose ends - Ted Kooser "Home Storage Barns"

A hot shudder of satin - Ted Kooser "Horse"

A hard, dirty army of hooves - Ted Kooser "Horse"

Gone dry from stories - Ted Kooser "Ice Cave"

The oak trees are scattering valentines over the snow - Ted Kooser " In a Light Late-Winter Wind"

Returning again and again to the steady heart - Ted Kooser " In a Light Late-Winter Wind"

Floats from some warmer place - Ted Kooser "In Early April"

Slows and snows itself away - Ted Kooser "In Early April"

A blizzard of petals that will take your breath - Ted Kooser "In Early April"

Petals in drifts on the sidewalk - Ted Kooser "In Early April"

Skipped off into summer and the life beyond - Ted Kooser "In Early April"

In the frozen hive of night - Ted Kooser "In January"

An aficionado of the wilted, the shopworn, and the free - Ted Kooser "In the Alley"

Under the weight of its perseverance - Ted Kooser "In the Hall of Bones"

A leaky jug of lust and worry - Ted Kooser "In the Hall of Bones"

By brooding on its shadow - Ted Kooser "In the Hall of Bones"

A century or more of utter blackness - Ted Kooser "Ink Black"

A thin gray absence waiting there - Ted Kooser "Ink Black"

Run backward into the past - Ted Kooser "A Jacquard Shawl"

Small but important repairs - Ted Kooser "A Jar of Buttons"

Sometimes salted by tears - Ted Kooser "A Jar of Buttons"

The poor bread of your sorrow - Ted Kooser "Lobocraspis griseifusa"

Locked in a knot of his fingers - Ted Kooser "A Man with a Rake"

A fragile old heart, the brown map of a life - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"

A starburst compass pointing in all the directions - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"

Far from the edge where the sea pours into the stars - Ted Kooser "A Map of the World"

In the copperplate script of its shadows - Ted Kooser "Moon Shadows"

Sweet with their timeless perfume - Ted Kooser "Mother"

Her eyes like stars fixed on the future - Ted Kooser "A New Potato"

Nowhere the dead want to go - Ted Kooser "Old Cemetery"

Hungry for summer - Ted Kooser "Old Lilacs"

Into a cold river of shadows - Ted Kooser "The Old People"

Their ears are full of night - Ted Kooser "The Old People"

In the faltering firelight of time - Ted Kooser "Pegboard"

Rely on chewing your lip and symmetry - Ted Kooser "A Perfect Heart"

To guide your hand along with special art - Ted Kooser "A Perfect Heart"

The little gifts of loneliness come wrapped by nervous fingers - Ted Kooser "Pocket Poem"

Turns the pages of rain - Ted Kooser "A Rainy Morning"

With small hope from the center of darkness - Ted Kooser "Screech Owl"

No bigger than a heart - Ted Kooser "Screech Owl"

Taken away by the stars - Ted Kooser "Screech Owl"

Brushes brown varnish over the past - Ted Kooser "A Sepia Photograph"

Skating backward right out of that moment - Ted Kooser "Skater"

Sacraments of Clorox in the church of starch - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

A cellar window looking out on February - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

Where a cold wind pinches clothespins down an empty line - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

And breathe the drifting smoke of memory - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

Pulled over my scorched yet ever shining heart - Ted Kooser "Song of the Ironing Board"

Each demanding an equal share - Ted Kooser "A Spiral Notebook"

Onto the sand of the future - Ted Kooser "Student"

And the past has become a new world - Ted Kooser "Tectonics"

Scarcely rippling the heart - Ted Kooser "Tectonics"

The dam that holds back the universe - Ted Kooser "Telescope"

The depth of the stars - Ted Kooser "Telescope"

Beneath the straining wall of darkness - Ted Kooser "Telescope"

Carefully placed upon the future - Ted Kooser "This Paper Boat"

Tips from the breeze and skims away - Ted Kooser "This Paper Boat"

Like the very meaning of surrender - Ted Kooser "3. Prisoners from the Front"

The pale blue fabric of the air - Ted Kooser "Turkey Vultures"

The seed of a lake - Ted Kooser "A Washing of Hands"

Light spilled over her fingers - Ted Kooser "Zenith"


See also: Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser.


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The start of a single step - Alfred Kreymborg "Adagio: A Duet"

That carves the will to live - Alfred Kreymborg "Credo"

When trees have lost remembrance of the leaves - Alfred Kreymborg "Crocus"

Clouds with crepe bedeck and shroud the skies - Alfred Kreymborg "Crocus"

Wedge a path of light through such black dreams - Alfred Kreymborg "Crocus"

Torrents raging down till rivers surge - Alfred Kreymborg "Crocus"

And then lead on again the universe - Alfred Kreymborg "Crocus"

Death alone has sympathy - Alfred Kreymborg "Dirge"

A breath or two against all time - Alfred Kreymborg "Dirge"

Molecules-- whose fate it is to quarrel - Alfred Kreymborg "Dust"

Discord without evolution - Alfred Kreymborg "Grasses"

Why do you play that long beautiful adagio - Alfred Kreymborg "Improvisation"

The beginning, some prelude you seek - Alfred Kreymborg "Improvisation"

There is nor hope nor mutiny in you - Alfred Kreymborg "Improvisation"

Thin flesh, narrow bones, slow blood - Alfred Kreymborg "Initials"

Down a narrow slit of the old earth - Alfred Kreymborg "Initials"

In which the sun and the moon keep their diary - Alfred Kreymborg "Old Manuscript"

A linguist more learned than Father Wisdom - Alfred Kreymborg "Old Manuscript"

A visionary more clairvoyant than Mother Dream - Alfred Kreymborg "Old Manuscript"

To feel it, one must be an apostle - Alfred Kreymborg "Old Manuscript"

A hope worth flying to - Alfred Kreymborg "Peasant"

You are an unspeakable adjective - Alfred Kreymborg "Poetry"

While bounding and tumbling and rolling here - Alfred Kreymborg "Stones"

Suffering carves smoothness which cannot cut any longer - Alfred Kreymborg "Stones"

Mad parties between you and me - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"

Sad parties between us two - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"

Dragging what's left of me to my lonely room in the blue - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"

Ringing the doorbell for one more party for two - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"

A long glad lifelong spree with me myself - Alfred Kreymborg "Those Everlasting Blues"

In the top branches, quizzing the sky - Alfred Kreymborg "The Tree"

Those crazy things that fooled me all those years - Alfred Kreymborg "Under Glass"

An insignificant harmony or dissonance - Alfred Kreymborg "Under Glass"


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Lips admit their ownership - Maxine Kumin "After Love"

His want overtook his will - Maxine Kumin "The Burners, the Buriers"

Yet leave them no less dead - Maxine Kumin "The Burners, the Buriers"

By hands that cherish us - Maxine Kumin "For Stanley, Some Lines at Random"

Become my own myth - Maxine Kumin "Male Privilege"

My bones drank water - Maxine Kumin "Morning Swim"

Water fell through all my doors - Maxine Kumin "Morning Swim"

From a blind sky - Maxine Kumin "New Hampshire, February 7, 2003"

On the insistent root of the old - Maxine Kumin "The Zen of Mowing"

Regrouping thread by thread - Maxine Kumin "The Zen of Mowing"


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The always steadying presence of seeds - Joanna Klink "Given"

Turn to sunlight for answers - Joanna Klink "Given"

The great change already underway - Joanna Klink "New Year"

Traveling like cool silence through the dark - Joanna Klink "New Year"

Governs by grievance and old scores - Joanna Klink "New Year"

Lifting ninety years of stillness - Joanna Klink "On Falling (Blue Spruce)"

Emptying night from its branches - Joanna Klink "On Falling (Blue Spruce)"

Made entirely of hovering - Joanna Klink "On Falling (Blue Spruce)"

The hour I walked into - Joanna Klink "Pericardium"

Flew forward into the depths of prospect - Joanna Klink "Pericardium"

The roads brushing the clouds - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"

Warm inside the white dusk of morning - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"

Under the birds' low song-swept radiances - Joanna Klink "A Welcome"


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Having come from Mithraic light - Stephen Kuusisto "Dark Joys 18"

A small fire in the brain - Stephen Kuusisto "Essay on November"

All burning in the quarter notes - Stephen Kuusisto "Essay on November"

The dry universe gives up its fruit - Stephen Kuusisto "Learning Braille at Thirty-Nine"

The ache of amazement under summer stars - Stephen Kuusisto "Learning Braille at Thirty-Nine"

Rub grains of the moon in my hands - Stephen Kuusisto "Learning Braille at Thirty-Nine"

Made a beehive from old letters - Stephen Kuusisto "Letter to Borges from London"

Made a library for inchworms - Stephen Kuusisto "Letter to Borges from London"

My fingers working at nothing - Stephen Kuusisto "Letter to Borges from London"

A city of bells and gardens - Stephen Kuusisto "Letter to Borges from London"

Soul and body constructing each other - Stephen Kuusisto "Night Seasons"

Blake's angel parting willow leaves - Stephen Kuusisto "Only Bread, Only Light"


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His sails were all of velvet - Charles Kingsley "Earl Haldan's Daughter"

His mast of beaten gold - Charles Kingsley "Earl Haldan's Daughter"

Tired of gaudy glare - Charles Kingsley "Ode to the Northeast Wind"

Tired of listless dreaming - Charles Kingsley "Ode to the Northeast Wind"

Jovial wind of winter - Charles Kingsley "Ode to the Northeast Wind"

Sweep the golden reed beds - Charles Kingsley "Ode to the Northeast Wind"

Hunting in your dreams - Charles Kingsley "Ode to the Northeast Wind"

While our skates are ringing - Charles Kingsley "Ode to the Northeast Wind"

Their mites of rye and oil - Charles Kingsley "The Ugly Princess"

And every goose a swan - Charles Kingsley "Young and Old"


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The potential dangers of sex robots - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"

Giving head to your shadow - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"

Living in the desert of the real - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"

Desire a simulacrum of itself - Elizabeth Knapp "My Brain Is Mad for Baudrillard"

Too young to remember the smoking gun - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"

Having no use for money - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"

To swaddle you in yesterday's headlines - Elizabeth Knapp "Poem in the Manner of the Year in Which I Was Born"

Leave all the lights on in my head - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"

This way, I know the dead can find me - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"

A spear of lightning for my song - Elizabeth Knapp "Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak"

Mirrors in which the self is projected - Elizabeth Knapp "Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman's Instagram Account"

Against a million anonymous eyes - Elizabeth Knapp "Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman's Instagram Account"

A Dr. Frankenstein in the lab with herself - Elizabeth Knapp "Self-Portrait as Cindy Sherman's Instagram Account"


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Invent one out of sheer air - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"

Spiraled down through the family history - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"

Obsessing over the years I have left - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"

The morning star hung alone - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"

The star yielded to light - Lynne Knight "Seventeen"


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typical of an arid country - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Forms of Range and Loathing"

half a province of avalanches - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Forms of Range and Loathing"

that strips mountain and bullet - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Forms of Range and Loathing"

The delusion of lilacs or iris - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Grow"

Redacting my sense of abandon - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Grow"

A theft waiting to happen - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Grow"

a small lie buried in a garden - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"

buried in a garden with snow peas and basil - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"

another breaking the soil - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"

dogs who bark into the woods - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"

in the servitude of strangers - Ruth Ellen Kocher "He Dreams of Falling"

recessing against a train of No - Ruth Ellen Kocher "She Manifests Her Own Ineffable"

a well of intentions and cliche - Ruth Ellen Kocher "She Manifests Her Own Ineffable"

night bending through a stairwell - Ruth Ellen Kocher "She Manifests Her Own Ineffable"

sacrifice denied to the wind - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen"

fever and the millennium - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen"

The bullet is all consequence - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen"

a goose opens its chest to a sound - Ruth Ellen Kocher "Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen"


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With laws that serve as wire and root - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"

Layer upon layer of land submerged - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"

Lakes that cannot be the eyes of the earth - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"

The cooking pot sentineled by unscoured stone - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"

Leaving the meadow wet with tears - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Exceeding Beringia"

Thick with unfamiliar stars - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Gray Eraser"

But both exist now to confuse me - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"

As through sun-singed grass - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"

Sprung from these greater furrows - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"

The sky of my mind against - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"

Self-betrayal in its sudden burn - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunaqtigiit (people related through common possession of territory)"

I might pronounce like grief - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunataq"

To thaw in the mouth - Joan Naviyuk Kane "Nunataq"


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Keeps a box of baby pigs - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"

Sleepy creatures of blood & fog - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"

The sacred contagion of pity, of giving, of loss - Laura Kasischke "The Cause of All My Suffering"

A bus breathing heavily at the station - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

The beggars at the gate - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

Like a bit of ancient punctuation - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

Pause in the transience of all things - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

Ishtar in the ship of life - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

Ripped open again his sack of grain - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

The spluttering light of this specific flame - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

The permanent transience of all things - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

Not a single anguished cry of it remains - Laura Kasischke "Champagne"

Sleep like brides in violets - Laura Kasischke "Daysleep"

Casting the shadows of their silver jets - Laura Kasischke "Daysleep"

Infinity slid into eternity - Laura Kasischke "Daysleep"

Orderly cupboards filled with nothing - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

Applause in running water - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

All those who've drowned in oceans - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

The pantry full of lilies - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

The recipes like confessions - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

The confessions like songs - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

Orderly cupboards filled with blood - Laura Kasischke "Kitchen Song"

Something spinning and made of history - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"

Scanning the cans on the grocery store shelf - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"

Hidden in the works of a mysterious clock - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"

Piled up before her on a banquet table - Laura Kasischke "Near misses"

And these owls in the rafters - Laura Kasischke "The Owls"

Invented plums and tissue paper - Laura Kasischke "The Pain"

With our passing reflected in them - Laura Kasischke "Prayer"

Pink lights blinking off and on - Laura Kasischke "Recall the Carousel"

So many hundreds of hours of bliss - Laura Kasischke "Recall the Carousel"

A familiar sweater in a garbage can - Laura Kasischke "Recall the Carousel"

My time machine, blown off course - Laura Kasischke "The Time Machine"

Confused, but always on a journey - Laura Kasischke "The Time Machine"

Like something strangled by an angel - Laura Kasischke "Ubi Sunt"

From inside their locked, glass places - Laura Kasischke "Ubi Sunt"


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Folded my sorrows into the mantle of summer - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

Assigning each brief storm its allotted space - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

Quietly pursuing catastrophic histories - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

Catastrophic histories buried in my eyes - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

The shingled hippo becomes the gray unicorn - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

Addled keepers of yesterday's disasters - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

On shafts of yesterday's pains - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

Introspective echoes of a journey - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

Searched the rooms of the moon - Bob Kaufman "I Have Folded My Sorrows"

Split ears of morning earth - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"

The teeth of a passing clown - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"

Give Harlem's king one spoon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"

At four in the never noon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"

In lost Spain's darkened noon - Bob Kaufman "Lorca"

Sparing only stars - Bob Kaufman "Lost Window"

Sweet beats of jazz impaled - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Impaled on slivers of wind - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Tomorrow's gold belled pipe - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Suspicions of newer songs and doubts - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Soul marks on unswinging gates - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Pyramids of notes spontaneously exploding - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Windy saxophone revolutions - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Melting walls and circling vultures - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

In that Jazz corner of life - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Wrapped in a mist of sound - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Triumphs of oddly begotten dreams - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Inviting the nerveless to feel - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"


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kept her tears where they'd pass for shotgun - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"

her tears were empty chairs - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"

wish their tears were rungs - Douglas Kearney "The Black Woman's Tears Swap Meet Is Open Every Day"

Insistence, amplification of - Douglas Kearney "The Irregular and/or Anti- and Ante- Regulative"

Conspiratorial unsuspicious activity - Douglas Kearney "The Irregular and/or Anti- and Ante- Regulative"

three feet behind my grin - Douglas Kearney "There's no 'sass' in 'dissociation'"

split my difference between here and gone - Douglas Kearney "There's no 'sass' in 'dissociation'"

a distance of hard words hissed - Douglas Kearney "There's no 'sass' in 'dissociation'"

presence of harm's numb climb - Douglas Kearney "There's no 'sass' in 'dissociation'"

Sets for a fruitless still life - Douglas Kearney "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"

Inclined to landscape orientation - Douglas Kearney "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"

Checking that the camera's uncapped - Douglas Kearney "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"

Accommodation of objects into a body - Douglas Kearney "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"

The nothing it suspects we are - Douglas Kearney "The Thing of Nature That Defies or Defers, Rather Than Presupposes, Representation"


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Leagues upon leagues of sealed history - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Sealed history awaiting an interpreter - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

New England's tapestry of stone - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Tumbled about by frost and storm - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

The inscrutable sculpture of the weather - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Naked rents and wind-bleached jags - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

A miracle of patient hands - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Divine things lie concealed - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Out of immemorial chaos - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

The dust of continents past - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

The record sibylline of far events - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

We are the cup that holds the sea - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Beyond the ramparts of the world - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Their courage is in my soul - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

The wall is an Iliad of granite - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Pilgrims of the perilous deep - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Beneath the wand of spring - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

On barren solitudes of sand - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Half erased by the impartial storms - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Poems of unconscious melody - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

All the broken tragedy of life - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

All the yearning mystery of death - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Sweet epitaphs of vines and violets - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

A peristyle of pines sings requiem - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Runs down in crumbling cadence - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

A wind of ancient romance blows - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

The silken skirts of Spring - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

A chorus of leaves and grasses - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Spread the gossip to the lilies - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Triumphed over many-weaponed Death - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Clinging to the skirts of Hope - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Petals of light upon darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

The noiseless sandals of Spring - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Wrestling with the bitter cold - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Seven times tried in fiery furnaces - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Against the voice of his conviction - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Mingled in the spring song of the walls - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

The hidden virtue of herb and root - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Murmur their mysteries through dusky aisles - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

The closed fingers of the ferns - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

New bees explore new flowers - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Waters from the rushing founts of May - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Satan sits by the judgment-seat - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

With lullabies on her lips - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Winnow the creeds of men - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Strengthened by the primal law of toil - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Laid a rich state on frugality - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Equipped with theories forged in reason - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

To dare a wilderness of wrong - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

So long shall Nature nourish us - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Sheltered the fateful fires - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

The rampart of a land at war - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Agleam on the horizon of time - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Walls wrought in unfaltering effort - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

The ring of their victorious axes - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Bid the fountains leap in thirsty lands - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Contest the onward march of the wheat - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Each a Lincoln in his smoldering patience - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Each a Luther in his fearless faith - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

A breach in the wall of darkness - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

The secret of your serene repose - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Hallowed and touched with fire - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Who counted every stone blessed - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"


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Gather up whatever is glittering - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

Not only our hearts that are broken - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

Where day speaks to the night - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

Stitch it with compassion and wire - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

Made gathers of light inside itself - Stuart Kestenbaum "Holding the Light"

Sharks patrolling the lagoons - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"

Warning of an immediate conflagration - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"

All the flights to paradise had been cancelled - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"

Gawking at someone else's trouble - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"

Cement themselves to the silky water - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"

Travel for miles on the waves - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"

Hitch a ride to your future - Stuart Kestenbaum "How to Start Over"

The great machinery of merchandising - Stuart Kestenbaum "Prayer in the Strip Mall, Bangor, Maine"

Shouted in our ears for free - Stuart Kestenbaum "Prayer in the Strip Mall, Bangor, Maine"

Receipts blurred beyond recognition - Stuart Kestenbaum "Starting the Subaru at Five Below"


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The world is not shaped by your tomato gardens - Eunsong Kim "[asian]"

Speech that could be a poem - Eunsong Kim "[asian]"

Commentaries on borrowing practices - Eunsong Kim "Disclaimers for Debt"

this deletion will not be permanent - Eunsong Kim "[i wrote something here but deleted it because i realized that it's]"

without the pretension of release - Eunsong Kim "In English for Clarity"

enclosed in this much solitude - Eunsong Kim "In English for Clarity"

the consistency of my concerns - Eunsong Kim "In English for Clarity"

When the chase becomes extended - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

That abolition will remain out of reach - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

How to rupture a conclusion - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

How to rupture against relief - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Invented to obscure loneliness - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

In search of a transitional object - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

When there are 50 harvests left - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Answers imploding into yourself - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Their negotiations with consumer culture - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

And especially when it becomes routine - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

In the subtext called our lives - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Interrupted by falling in love - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

The film exists as broadcast radio - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Thought it was slapstick throughout - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

The demise of debtors' prisons - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

Until the proof becomes accepted - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

A sliver of something to be repeated - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

And solace must be found - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

A space for kindness amongst strangers - Eunsong Kim "On Endings & Longing"

love is not a condition for safety - Eunsong Kim "Psalm"

On what will end - Eunsong Kim "Romance #1"

Counting till revelations - Eunsong Kim "Romance #1"


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Who take the brunt of economies - John Kinsella "'A Coda to History: 29'"

Tyranny's propaganda - John Kinsella "'A Coda to History: 29'"

Deeper than rust - John Kinsella "'A Coda to History: 29'"

runs against the speed camera - John Kinsella "Redneck Refutation"

The wavering is not mirage - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

No mirage could sustain this - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

At least hope for stalemate - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Orgies on the cusp of dissolution - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

The rage for apocalyptic literature - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Listen to the immensity of the hunt - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

In the cobweb of light and dark - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Long-term resident predator of outer sheds - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Into the zone of mice and insects - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Jobs making infinite voids - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Taking home the emptiness - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

In the roof space of isolation - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

In the overheating metabolism of destiny - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Step out before the endgame - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

In geraniums out of the sun - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Silent beyond the flexing of metal - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"

Tangled syntax of observation - John Kinsella "Rite de Passage and the Irony of the Sharpshooter"


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Power walks with ambition - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"

Ambition will devour a man without vision - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"

If work was completed according to plan - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"

Wasteful action is corruption of the purest talents - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"

A story compiled from a borrowed thought - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"

Water does not feel sorrow nor care - Francis Kruckvich "A Hero and a Great Man"


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Under the comfort of Cincinnati fog - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

A twirl of cocoa nib and bergamot - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

An acre of semisweet tenor notes - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

And even make a sweet thing of the acrid - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Rub chalk maple over the head of a screech - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Did not draw the map that shows the sticky trail - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Fashioned the compass that leads to the creaky side door - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

An ever ready synonym for Polaris - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Dive into the marrow of the marrow of a story - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Sing each woman into a symbol of some sort of ascension - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Who walks up the forever of a wooden staircase - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Who sweatily lament their subterranean homesick blues - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Aren't all these metaphors for reaching skyward? - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

A spirit pushes its way through the busted geometry - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

Floating, floating, up to the North Star - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Listening to Nina Simone Sing 'Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues'"

If you see me praying in the living room - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

Never order me a meal that is spelled with silent letters - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

The only way we will be able to gossip in peace - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

Start speaking an imaginary language - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

Whose bad luck or misfortune will be sitting on your head - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

Buy what you can truly afford - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

Like I laughed at my mother - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

And I will live long enough to forgive your folly - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Mother's Rules"

Dip me whole into the sweet blood - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

About cutting hair & a scissor's song - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

A memory holding its own breath - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

I wear your black cursive on my chin - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

I wrap you around my wedding finger - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Watch you snap back until you yawn - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Dress you in the foam of apricot shampoo - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Spin you in my palm to wash out time - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

In the blue violet of dream's intermissions - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Climbing strands to each other's roots - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

Searching for homes that we have already passed - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"

In my hands, we are closer than secret - Yalie Saweda Kamara "Trim"


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Inscribes wild to-do lists on the wind - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

How many moons since we first woke up - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Knowing our kitchen sink of years has dripped away - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

The drawers jammed open in astonishment - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

To keep me from losing even a drop of our life - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Blackbird shouting in the black walnut tree - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Afternoon sun cutting the ground into roses - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Night banging on and on at the gate - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

We won't be back to this particular quarrel - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

How ferocious that shock of light - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"

Carving its own vows on each other's skin - Kirun Kapur "Rajat Jayanti"


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As pining captive quits his cell - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

And stand beside my father's door - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

The pewit's cry only makes deeper nature's rest - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

By garden gate and unlatched door - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

With the lost years away have fled - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

Wearing the silver mask of years - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]

Young hearts round this new life can twine - Kirtle "My Home in Annandale Revisited" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.6-v.I, 9 Feb. 1884]


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For the first month of life, I was unnamed - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Because neither would bend their letters - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Stolen by Baba Yaga's wicked swan-geese - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Who stays silent for seven years - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Sewing twelve sweaters out of nettles - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Must wear a wing instead of an arm - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Feet bare and untouched against coarse stone - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Admitted this name could not belong to me - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Some sudden spell Soviet doctors connected to his heart - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

In our people's way of wearing our dead - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Because two syllables are an easier loss to bear - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Named for a man none of us could save - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"

Refusing to give up the sky - Julia Kolchinsky "Naming"


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The gleamings of his mountain brass - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

In metal tints to mark - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

With all his whispering reeds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Crouched on the tranquil pool - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Nurse of pure herbs - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Tender soul with anguish torn - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Dawning charm of every infant grace - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

New lustre on his old descent - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

As swans in autumn in assembling bands - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

No wine to fire the captive heart - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The forest-monarch's pride - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

A fair pearl set in richest coral - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The pride of envious yaks - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Rude mantles of the birch-tree's rind - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Chafe against the secret spell - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

To win the demon's grace - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Sovereign of the blissful skies - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Fail his ruthless hand to stay - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

As herbs of healing virtue fail - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The might of his fierce monsters - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Which spurn the dust in fury - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

And stayed his awful penance - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Supreme beyond the depths of night - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Seek the Hermit in the grove - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Flower that boasts no fragrance - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Third: The Death of Love" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The fierce aspect of a baleful star - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Second: The Address to Brahma" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Venomed arrows from a mighty bow - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fourth: Rati's Lament" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Dust with which the breezes play - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fourth: Rati's Lament" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Quenched by the conquering light - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fourth: Rati's Lament" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Cursed her bright beauty - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

In a hermit coat of bark - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

To nourish life upon the fallen leaf - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Seven steps together bind - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The thorny paths of penance - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Monarch of the three great worlds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Fifth: Uma's Reward" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The rampart's glowing crown - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Sixth: Uma's Espousals" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

A noble company of celestial race - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Sixth: Uma's Espousals" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Decked with pearls and paved with sapphires - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Pure water from their golden urns - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Flowers lured from their buds - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Bright dyes of saffron - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Robed by the full moon - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The wild terror of its glance - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Herald lightning and the crane's shrill cry - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Holy oil upon the rising flame - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

The gold of many a tinkling bell - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

That pour beneath one bridge - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Disturbs the tranquil rest of Ocean - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Refuge in his hour of dread - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

Enthroned upon the lotus flower - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto Seventh: Uma's Bridal" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith


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The swift ship's lurch on the lucent wave - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"

A light steals half my mind - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"

Circling a remembrance of meadows and streams - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"

Passions that struggle to live in dreams - Fredoon Kabraji "A Blue Dream"

The radiant colours of his thought - Fredoon Kabraji "The Lovers"

The music of his clouds, his winds, his birds - Fredoon Kabraji "The Lovers"

The magic that swells the thirst of your soul - Fredoon Kabraji "Tulip"

The opiate that fills you dream - Fredoon Kabraji "Tulip"

Guard your magic beyond the wing of melody - Fredoon Kabraji "Tulip"


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This home of ten long years - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

Where my wandering spirit will return - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

Crumbling pain on the cabinets that never closed - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

The mold that holds the tile together - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

When I kept my belongings in paper bags - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"

In the chaotic sprawl of today where strangers meet - Kimberly Kaufman "Did You Know Ghosts Are Made of Shattered Carbon?"


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Tastes like ash going down - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"

A lit candle saved for when the power goes out - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"

Our teeth are covered in dust and fog - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"

Take the new skin this place has offered - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"

To live stuck between this and that - Cam Kelley "Playing Fetch with the Grim"


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Followed a star through the darkness - Henry Kendall "Achan"

Armfuls of spices to set at the banquet - Henry Kendall "Achan"

Who culled a garland from the flowers - Henry Kendall "Adam Lindsay Gordon"

Sad disciple of a shining band now gone - Henry Kendall "Adam Lindsay Gordon"

One spot secure from change - Henry Kendall "After Many Years"

To the birds and waters only known - Henry Kendall "After Many Years"

Why vex me with delicious hints - Henry Kendall "Aileen"

The tender message Hope might send - Henry Kendall "At Dusk"

A strong south wind in thunder sings - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

Perished with the breath of drought - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

Far-travelled herald of some distant storm - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

Every shadow thrown by flickering light - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

Having learnt from sources pure and high - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

And time has shadows waiting in predestined ways - Henry Kendall "At Her Window"

Are eloquent with splendid prophecies - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

Sister of the flying beam and speedy shadow - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

The hymn of water and the gale's high tone - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

Anthems from the thunder's mountain throne - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

Never faultless light or perfect rest - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

Where the bitter barbs of frost have been - Henry Kendall "The Austral Months"

With raiment of weeping and woe - Henry Kendall "Australia Vindex"

Her paths are the paths of the sun - Henry Kendall "Australia Vindex"

One with the daughters of dolour and night - Henry Kendall "Australia Vindex"

And sleep on a pillow of strife - Henry Kendall "Australia Vindex"

Sounds of loud and fierce commotion - Henry Kendall "Australian War Song"

Woke to know their native worth - Henry Kendall "Australian War Song"

Ghost of a land by the ghost of a sea - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"

Scarred with the chronicles written by flame - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"

Loom over perilous pits of eclipse - Henry Kendall "Beyond Kerguelen"

Setting bloom where curse is planted - Henry Kendall "Christmas Creek"

Ringed about by tracks of furnace - Henry Kendall "Christmas Creek"

Grappled spikes and crags of fire - Henry Kendall "Christmas Creek"


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And again the last time my name is said - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

Built my tomb walls strong enough to keep me safe - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

Safe from my past and its interpretations - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

Would revive my second heart with new legacy - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

Into crowds of the loved and hated - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"

Only tie me in this zombie form - Brianne Kerr "Legacy"


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To estimate one's position without instruments - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

Direction and distance traveled from the last known fix - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

Accounting for tides, currents, grief - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

An airy thinness gleaming despite the distance - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

How absence unfathomable becomes something I can carry - Hyejung Kook "Dead Reckoning"

Wearing a crown of overtowering rage - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"

Through the green fuse drives the flower - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"

Iron in a forbidden transition - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"

Unmoored by rage and grief - Hyejung Kook "Spring Coronal"


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Wanted to be revealed by some visible sign - Edgar Kunz "Day Moon"

One medicated season slid into the next - Edgar Kunz "Day Moon"

The intervals between disasters collapsing - Edgar Kunz "Day Moon"

From warehouses at the edge of the city - Edgar Kunz "Doors"

Reached on tiptoe to pull ripe pomelos from the dark - Edgar Kunz "Fixer"

The neighbors were still dancing in their Halloween best - Edgar Kunz "Fixer"

Blow through an empty station on a mechanical wind - Edgar Kunz "Good Deal"

The long yard clotted with ivy and vasevine - Edgar Kunz "Missing It"

A marble made of hot pink plastic - Edgar Kunz "Missing It"

Cranked to eleven by the sublimation of despair - Edgar Kunz "New Year"

Seeding our clouds with acid rain - Edgar Kunz "Squatters"

To explain about mechanical pigeon spies - Edgar Kunz "Squatters"

Gnawed by a hundred minor obligations - Edgar Kunz "Therapy"

Castanets from a jukebox we couldn't see - Edgar Kunz "Tuning"

The hours adjusting the neatly clicking gears - Edgar Kunz "Tuning"

A machine-learning algorithm to calculate the odds - Edgar Kunz "Willrobotstakemyjob.com"


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I dream the line of letters - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"

Came not before an apple tree - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"

Seeing the faces of silk - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"

The road before this of blood - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"

The apples tumid with grief - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"

A whole life of waiting - Snigdha Koirala "Fragments on Naturalization"


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Dream of lemon trees from a different continent - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"

Misplaced hope in the system - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"

We can go everywhere after - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"

Gifted this planet with all of its lemon trees - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"

Holding your hand through the static again - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"

Nestled into the structures of manipulation - Umang Kalra "Epistolary Poem"


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Eclipsed by something like desire - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

Brambled path towards the forest's heart - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

Her steps persistent like a chant - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

Sweet-sour fruit under the moon's regard - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

Shameless spillage or sharp portrayal - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

Lures the wolves from layered lairs - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

Reflected in their umbral eyes - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"

Disrobe in night's cold maw - Lesh Karan "Red Writing Hood"


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thought's diamond drop squeezed - Kaie Kellough "if who"

drop squeezed from an enraged zero - Kaie Kellough "if who"

some nights labour, some nights grieve - Kaie Kellough "if who"

to work its internalized heresies - Kaie Kellough "if who"

sandpaper erasures that smooth it to sleep - Kaie Kellough "if who"

as night drips pandemic & toil - Kaie Kellough "if who"

dream of sugar's refined fluorescence - Kaie Kellough "if who"

speed into tomorrow's slapstick - Kaie Kellough "if who"

the pillow's wicked blow - Kaie Kellough "if who"


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Sitting on my doorstep this Sunday - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"

A baby lizard gumdrop green - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"

The red brick canvas holding us both - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"

My cats stand watch in the window - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"

Gambit in a cycle of manipulation - Candice M. Kelsey "Ave, Verum Corpus"


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I was born holding a knife - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

I've lost myself in every lifetime - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Leaving first is a form of loss - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Her thorax full of strange ideas - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

But no one wants the emptiness of space - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

My name is leaving and my name is gone - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Every song smells the song of memory - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

The magnetic pull weakens with space and time - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

Not even bees can eat hope - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"

The memory of a leaving song - Leah Komar "Colony Collapse Disorder"


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Lined with the forgotten ashes of scullery maids - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Better things than picking lentils out of the hearth - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Wanting a ball is not wanting a prince - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Logarithmic function of desire and fulfillment - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Arrive at the ball bedecked in fury - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Only two hands to use in the dance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

One always caught in the clutch of another - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

The second hand ticking gently in front of the eyes - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Shoes never worn enough to be worth the price - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

This solitary pirouette on the head of a spindle - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

A waltz of one hundred years - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Fingers burning into straw, into gold - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

A shadowy duet of parsimony and elegance - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Into the arms of a tidy, anticipated future - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

The unfolding of an infinite paper princeling chain - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

The mother of invention and the sister of theft - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

The glass globe of hand-spun conjurings - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Dancing in the shadow of the long hand - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Twirling in the lee of the short hand - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Each dance has the fractal precision of chaos - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

Each parts contains the pattern of the whole - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"


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The squirrel's granary is full - John Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

Found me roots of relish sweet - John Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

The new soft fallen mask of snow - John Keats "Bright Star"

A sleep full of sweet dreams - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

A shady boon for simple sheep - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

An endless fountain of immortal drink - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

While the willow trails its delicate amber - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

With universal tinge of sober gold - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

I send my herald thought into a wilderness - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Dress my uncertain path with green - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Plains where fed the herds of Pan - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Between the swell of turf and slanting branches - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

A melancholy spirit well might win - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Rain-scented eglantine gave temperate sweets - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Sated with a faint breath of music - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

In smoothest echoes breaking - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

As we might mark a lynx's eye - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Making directly for the woodland altar - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Let not my weak tongue faulter - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

A portion of ethereal dew - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

To stammer where old Chaucer used to sing - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Bearing the burden of a shepherd song - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Whiter still than Leda's love - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

To guard a thousand flocks - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

The dim echoes of old Triton's horn - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Choice honey for a favoured youth - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Sleeker than night-swollen mushrooms - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Where meeting hazels darken - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

The dreary melody of bedded reeds - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

By all the trembling mazes that she ran - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Dread opener of the mysterious doors - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Bred Thermopylae its heroes - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Cull time's sweet first-fruits - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

To hide the cankering venom - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

That grief itself embalms - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Some midnight spirit nurse - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Minstrel memories of times gone by - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Great key to golden palaces - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Morning incense from the fields of May - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

A magic bed of sacred dittany - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Oat-sheaves drooping in the western sun - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Thorns out-grown like spiked aloe - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Help to stem the ebbing sea - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Vain as swords against the enchased crocodile - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Leaps of grasshoppers against the sun - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Leave his name upon the harp-string - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

A ring-dove let fall a sprig of yew - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Before the crystal heavens darken - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Palaces and towers of amethyst - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Visions, dreams, and fitful whims of sleep - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Within the space of a swallow's nest-door - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Ghosts of melodious prophecyings - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

In every place where infant Orpheus slept - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

An orbed drop of light - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Nurtured like a pelican brood - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

To shake ambition from their memories - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Beyond the shadow of a dream - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

On their stalks set like vestal primroses - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Dark velvet edges them round - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Such a breathless honey-feel of bliss - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Preserved me from the drear abyss - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Sits, and babbles thorough silence - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Perplexed her with a thousand things - John Keats "The Eve of Saint Mark"

Some ghostly queen of spades had come to mock - John Keats "The Eve of Saint Mark"

To ease my breast of melodies - John Keats "Faery Song"

Young buds sleep in the root's white core - John Keats "Faery Song"

On this flush pomegranate bough - John Keats "Faery Song"

Ever cures the good man's ill - John Keats "Faery Song"

The flower will bloom another year - John Keats "Faery Song"

To look on mists in idleness - John Keats "The Human Seasons"

The healthy breath of morn - John Keats "Hyperion"

By reason of his fallen divinity - John Keats "Hyperion"

A Goddess of the infant world - John Keats "Hyperion"

Have ta'en Achilles by the hair - John Keats "Hyperion"

With a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel - John Keats "Hyperion"

A listening fear in her regard - John Keats "Hyperion"

The vanward clouds of evil days - John Keats "Hyperion"

Upon Saturn's bended neck - John Keats "Hyperion"

With all its solemn noise - John Keats "Hyperion"

Conscious of the new command - John Keats "Hyperion"

Silken mat for Saturn's feet - John Keats "Hyperion"

Strangled in my nervous grasp - John Keats "Hyperion"

Admonitions to the winds and seas - John Keats "Hyperion"

And all the yawn of hell - John Keats "Hyperion"

There must be a golden victory - John Keats "Hyperion"

Upon the gold clouds metropolitan - John Keats "Hyperion"

That word found way unto Olympus - John Keats "Hyperion"

The mist which eagles cleave - John Keats "Hyperion"

Too huge for mortal tongue or pen - John Keats "Hyperion"

Prophesyings of the midnight lamp - John Keats "Hyperion"

Bastion'd with pyramids of glowing gold - John Keats "Hyperion"

Touch'd with shade of bronzed obelisks - John Keats "Hyperion"

Through all its thousand courts - John Keats "Hyperion"

When earthquakes jar their battlements - John Keats "Hyperion"

Upon the threshold of the west - John Keats "Hyperion"

Blown by the serious Zephyrs - John Keats "Hyperion"

The quavering thunder thereupon - John Keats "Hyperion"

Bid old Saturn take his throne - John Keats "Hyperion"

Fierce breath against the sleepy portals - John Keats "Hyperion"

Spun round in sable curtaining - John Keats "Hyperion"

From the nadir deep up to the zenith - John Keats "Hyperion"

Won from the gaze of many centuries - John Keats "Hyperion"

By hard compulsion bent - John Keats "Hyperion"

And in vapour hid my face - John Keats "Hyperion"

Actions of rage and passion - John Keats "Hyperion"

Thunderous waterfalls and torrents hoarse - John Keats "Hyperion"

In the eyes of conquering Jove - John Keats "Hyperion"

As Hope upon her anchor leans - John Keats "Hyperion"

On our heels a fresh perfection - John Keats "Hyperion"

A power more strong in beauty - John Keats "Hyperion"

Quarrel with the proud forests - John Keats "Hyperion"

May drive our conquerors to mourn - John Keats "Hyperion"

Enchantment with the shifting wind - John Keats "Hyperion"

All the sad spaces of oblivion - John Keats "Hyperion"

Hoarse with loud tormented streams - John Keats "Hyperion"

And I have thought it died of grieving - John Keats "I Had a Dove"

A silken thread of my own hand's weaving - John Keats "I Had a Dove"

Had not yet lost those starry diadems - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Far round the horizon's crystal air - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Trace the dwindled edgings of its brim - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

A filbert hedge with wild briar overtwined - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Clumps of woodbine taking the soft wind - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

The soft wind upon their summer thrones - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Goldfinches one by one will drop - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Flowering laurels spring from diamond vases - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Bringing shapes from the invisible world - John Keats "[I stood tip-toe upon a little hill]"

Remember Apollo's summer look - John Keats "In drear nighted December"

Stay their crystal fretting - John Keats "In drear nighted December"

When there is none to heal it - John Keats "In drear nighted December"

Dew so sweet and virulent - John Keats "Lamia [Left to herself]"

Without one cooling tear - John Keats "Lamia [Left to herself]"

A doll dress'd up for idleness - John Keats "Modern Love"

A thing of soft misnomers - John Keats "Modern Love"

Foster-child of Silence and slow Time - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

A heart high-sorrowful and cloyed - John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

Your rosary of yew-berries - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

A partner in your sorrow's mysteries - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

Drown the wakeful anguish of the soul - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

The rainbow of the salt sand-wave - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

The wealth of globed peonies - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

Burst Joy's grape against his palate - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

Among her cloudy trophies hung - John Keats "Ode on Melancholy"

Light-winged Dryad of the trees - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

A beaker full of the warm South - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

Charioted by Bacchus - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

The Queen-Moon is on her throne - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

Soft incense hangs upon the boughs - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

The murmurous haunt of flies - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

Half in love with easeful Death - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

Through the sad heart of Ruth - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

In tears amid the alien corn - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

On the foam of perilous seas - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

In faery lands forlorn - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

Fades past the near meadows - John Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"

Traveled in the realms of gold - John Keats "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

That deep-browed Homer ruled - John Keats "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

Faint with the hot sun - John Keats "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"

Hide in the cooling trees - John Keats "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"

At ease beneath some pleasant weed - John Keats "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"

When the frost has wrought a silence - John Keats "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"

The witching time of night - John Keats "A Prophecy: To George Keats in America"

Hear these tuneless numbers - John Keats "Psyche"

Beneath the whispering roof - John Keats "Psyche"

Cool-rooted flowers fragrant-eyed - John Keats "Psyche"

Of all Olympus' faded hierarchy - John Keats "Psyche"

Of pale-mouthed prophet dreaming - John Keats "Psyche"

Though too late for antique vows - John Keats "Psyche"

Holy were the haunted forest boughs - John Keats "Psyche"

Fluttering among the faint Olympians - John Keats "Psyche"

A moan upon the midnight hours - John Keats "Psyche"

Of pale-mouthed prophet dreaming - John Keats "Psyche"

In some untrodden region of my mind - John Keats "Psyche"

The wreathed trellis of a working brain - John Keats "Psyche"

Among the jumbled heap of murky buildings - John Keats "Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell]"

Startles the wild bee from the fox-glove - John Keats "Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell]"

The fair and open face of heaven - John Keats "Sonnet X [To one who has been long in city pent]"

Like the passage of an angel’s tear - John Keats "Sonnet X [To one who has been long in city pent]"

Madly follow that bright path of light - John Keats "Specimen of an Induction to a Poem"

The sky-lark shakes the tremulous dew - John Keats "To a Friend who sent me some Roses"

The sweetest flower wild nature yields - John Keats "To a Friend who sent me some Roses"

The wand that queen Titania wields - John Keats "To a Friend who sent me some Roses"

Later flowers for the bees - John Keats "To Autumn"

Sitting careless on a granary floor - John Keats "To Autumn"

Gnats mourn among the river sallows - John Keats "To Autumn"

The flood of stifling numbers ebbs - John Keats "To Fanny"

Outfaces now my silver moon - John Keats "To Fanny"

Do not turn the current of your heart - John Keats "To Fanny"

Through the dance's dangerous wreath - John Keats "To Fanny"

Soft embalmer of the still midnight - John Keats "To Sleep"

And seal the hushed casket of my soul - John Keats "To Sleep"

With the magic hand of chance - John Keats "When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be"


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The earth is rejecting the rain - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"

All the cogs of our life have broken teeth - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"

Tests our worth through slow disintegration - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"

No matter how hard you nail it down - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"

The sun scolds us with its absence - Andrew Kozma "11th Hour Sonnet"

Ghost organs blush without blood - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"

Ghost wood splinters into your fingertips - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"

If I hold my breath till it aches - Andrew Kozma "Song of the Ghost Hunter"


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Like unbidden violets from the sod - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"

The shadows fall more soothing - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"

Brought a strain from Paradise - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"

Touched the sacred springs of grief - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"

High as the eternal Throne - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"

To soothe our parting hour - John Keble "Burial of the Dead"

Framer of the light and dark - John Keble "Evening"

With all an elder sister's pride - John Keble "Fire"

Chanted prayer, or psalm, or hymn - John Keble "Fire"

Fraught with whispering sweet - John Keble "Fire"

Should wear the martyr's robe of flame - John Keble "Fire"


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Shall we build to Ambition - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

The meanest of reptiles a peer and a prey - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

The foul worm that he frets - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

Build to the purple of Pride - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

The treasures are squandered again - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

The first tabernacle to Hope - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"


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Counted the corners and angles - Janet Kauffman "Abandoned"

The calm took two weeks to notice - Janet Kauffman "Abandoned"

Carried away the small shadows - Janet Kauffman "Abandoned"

Air here at the edge of small fires - Janet Kauffman "Air Here"

One field sparrow song down-falling - Janet Kauffman "Air Here"

Stuffed in wormholes and pipes - Janet Kauffman "Before it Took Hold"

A bolt of brocade and foliage - Janet Kauffman "Before it Took Hold"

The vultures sweep over all this wasteland - Janet Kauffman "Before it Took Hold"

The blur of beginnings of branchings - Janet Kauffman "The Blur of"

The blur of a voice behind the wall - Janet Kauffman "The Blur of"

The blur of the blast in granite - Janet Kauffman "The Blur of"

Of distance, of nearness, of now - Janet Kauffman "The Blur of"

Open, lightning-struck and gashed - Janet Kauffman "A Body Walking in Clothes"

Filaments, gauze cut and stitched - Janet Kauffman "A Body Walking in Clothes"

The blood-script of tall grass - Janet Kauffman "By the Time You Think Weaponry"

The blue mud ushers in glacial till - Janet Kauffman "Caught Between Rocks"

At home in so many bodies of water - Janet Kauffman "Caught Between Rocks"

Webs and dim branching, cross-firing - Janet Kauffman "Cut the Lure"

When he falls asleep, does light fade? - Janet Kauffman "Cut the Lure"

Milk contributing to the mesh - Janet Kauffman "Decaying to More"

With distant arrivals of light - Janet Kauffman "Decaying to More"

Decaying to more and more intimate spaces - Janet Kauffman "Decaying to More"

A few stiff branches covered with scimitar thorns - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

Only a devil could have picked it and walked off - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

With greater force in the forest - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

Grinding a path through elderberries and laurel - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

Without burying splinters in his eyes - Janet Kauffman "The Devil's Walking Stick"

On a footpath by the stream - Janet Kauffman "Dodder Is No Daughter"

Considering time allotted, creatures lost - Janet Kauffman "Dodder Is No Daughter"

Before stumbling into stinging nettles - Janet Kauffman "Dodder Is No Daughter"

For scattershot revelations or shortcuts - Janet Kauffman "Eco-Dementia"

Where the crazy love of a slope takes over - Janet Kauffman "Eco-Dementia"

An elaboration of stalk and stilts - Janet Kauffman "An Elaboration of Stalk"

Cantilevers in chalk spray - Janet Kauffman "An Elaboration of Stalk"

Every shot-through winter scene - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"

Watch the old roots write - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"

A lie, a limit, the crimped stalks of beech - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"

A scrawl diagrammed, flower and all - Janet Kauffman "Every Shot-Through"

A sheen of ice clarifies a gravel bed - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

Ice plates stack and cantilever - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

Every architecture shatters sometime - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

Augur somehow upwards from the gravel bed - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

And pick up pebbles larger than their heads - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

Complex finger clusters flashing - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

Love in counterpoise to silver glitter - Janet Kauffman "Glossed Over"

The food of the underground - Janet Kauffman "The Hand of the Sassafras"

But without digging into dark - Janet Kauffman "The Hand of the Sassafras"

Don't miss the cut-off out of here - Janet Kauffman "The Hand of the Sassafras"

Water rolls the stone away - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"

Pea gravel clicks and walks - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"

Somebody counts the merry-go-rounds inside - Janet Kauffman "He's Seen it Crawl"

Blown in from sweet-fruited floodplains - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"

Tracing the backslopes of deer in the yard - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"

The riot of utterly distancing light years - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"

A wavering strumming collects off-site - Janet Kauffman "If You Wake Under Covers"

He goes into every factory at night - Janet Kauffman "In His Arms"

In the aftermath of purple cress - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"

Splints the ice water saws right through - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"

The blue ashes snap and uproot cohosh - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"

One wall flies out the window - Janet Kauffman "In the Aftermath"

Flying through sheds and airy quadrants - Janet Kauffman "Instead of Flying in Water"

And claim all things feather, skin, scale - Janet Kauffman "Instead of Flying in Water"

If you eat what is offered - Janet Kauffman "Interrogation"

Maybe one or two things not quite right - Janet Kauffman "Keratella Offshore"

Mix media on slow water - Janet Kauffman "Keratella Offshore"

Wind in the basement - Janet Kauffman "The Knife in the Fish"

Green ice in blue water - Janet Kauffman "The Knife in the Fish"

Dragonflies on the cake - Janet Kauffman "The Knife in the Fish"

They disappear for months, any season - Janet Kauffman "Many Small Children"

Nothing there but green grass and sticks - Janet Kauffman "My Father Tells Me"

Just because one thing follows another - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"

The gold larvae may be clues - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"

Did fire fish tumble under his blades? - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"

How jewelweed snaps its seeds at a touch - Janet Kauffman "No Answering at this Time"

Dismay at unstoppable liveliness - Janet Kauffman "Oh, Corporeal"

But here is the axe coming down - Janet Kauffman "Oh, Corporeal"

Still inside locomotion and flagellation - Janet Kauffman "Oh, Corporeal"

That old one with time unstuck - Janet Kauffman "The Original Brain"

To shroud the miles across the face of the seas - Janet Kauffman "Reparations"

A dry scatter and sound of snares - Janet Kauffman "Reparations"

Suffering or release from suffering - Janet Kauffman "The Same Spike Driven or Pulled"

The same spike driven or pulled - Janet Kauffman "The Same Spike Driven or Pulled"

Long-legged Naiads appear in the willows - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"

Two branches clap two stones together - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"

They lie down and roar and burn - Janet Kauffman "Slashed"

Chain link and concertina wire - Janet Kauffman "Stress Position"

The horn hits and flows through steel - Janet Kauffman "Stress Position"

Unspoken because nothing makes a sound - Janet Kauffman "Stress Position"

Expressed by an emission of the breath - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"

The four winds trumpet over dunes - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"

The largest quadrant shall be named first - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"

The management of pancakes and preserves - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"

She does not wither in such winds - Janet Kauffman "Such Winds"

Whatever unannounced whiteout blizzard hits our blood - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"

Our own name on the line - Janet Kauffman "Their Books Would Write Us"

You can't predict the skeleton crew - Janet Kauffman "Uncalled-For"

Unless you carve witch hazel in the old style - Janet Kauffman "Uncalled-For"

An arrangement of uncalled-for words - Janet Kauffman "Uncalled-For"

They live without limits - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

With none of the usual obstacles - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

The soils striated, wavering in the heat - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Drawing of chalk lines, pastel and charcoal - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Air settles on their shoulders, infiltrates their hair - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

No more than an undercurrent in daily life - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

The newsworthy world a nebulous swirl - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Not even a context for their unique situation - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Out of those recreations a system of marks - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Catastrophic in glitter and neon - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

The consequence of their connection - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

For more precision, close your eyes completely - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

To set in memory the landslide you just dreamed - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Tall brick buildings slipping into a ravine - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

An odd cut of intense color - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Sharp focus that blurs and flattens - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

A surge of cascading emotions, then calm - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

The names would conjure other invisibles - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Geographic couplings with no witnesses - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Upheavals in the steppes of Kazakhstan - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

That flow of fabrics and waters of Manhattan - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Various underpinnings or overthrowings - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Best known by their refusals - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Naked opposition to restraint - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

A black hole in the lake on the old maps - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Bubbles up fabulous algal paints - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Hundreds of egrets stroll the shore - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"

Upended by error and X-rays - Janet Kauffman "Upended By Error"

Foliage, crenelated, dark at the root - Janet Kauffman "Upended By Error"

The ultra scene and that zero tunnel - Janet Kauffman "Upended By Error"

Virtues enumerated add up - Janet Kauffman "Virtues Enumerated Add Up"

Nobody can even think uprightness - Janet Kauffman "Virtues Enumerated Add Up"

Undisturbed in spite of the usual odds - Janet Kauffman "Wanting Ice"

Painted turtles, pumpkinseed or green sunfish - Janet Kauffman "Wanting Ice"

A warring machine flexes, exploding - Janet Kauffman "A Warring Machine"

Cataclysm and chorus - Janet Kauffman "A Warring Machine"

Two shovels for hardpan and splintering - Janet Kauffman "The Whirlwind Times"

Covering boundless invisibles - Janet Kauffman "The Whirlwind Times"

Black stuff and blue, gold and green - Janet Kauffman "The Whirlwind Times"

Those unreadable receipts at the bottom of a purse - Janet Kauffman "Zooplankton and More"

Can't count invisibles in the green shallows - Janet Kauffman "Zooplankton and More"


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How the stars are flicking off like lightbulbs - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Electrician to the sky - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Twisting and tightening the stars that have turned off - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Memories scorch us like solar flares - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Because the past is angry for being forgotten - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

The words are trapped behind her lips - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Keeping its prisoners for eternity - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

A few thousand more stars to go - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"

Repairing and maintaining another dying universe - Michelle Koubek "The Universe Is Dying"


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there's a wire in the belt of my brain - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

a wire picking up missiles on the strip - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

breaking space and time with an iron sound - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

time makes change possible - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

the simple, vertiginous depth of problems - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

which all meaning requires one to reject - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

the heat current shutting down - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"

with the arrows of slavery and white phosphorus - Benjamin Krusling "what can I know what should I do what may I hope"


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In the fire of Spring - Omar Khayyam "Action"

But a little way to flutter - Omar Khayyam "Action"

Morning in the Bowl of Night - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

In a Noose of Light - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

A thousand Blossoms with the Day - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Divides the desert from the sown - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

The brave Music of a distant Drum - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Who husbanded the Golden Grain - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

The Lion and the Lizard keep the Courts - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Where some buried Caesar bled - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Every Hyacinth the Garden wears - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

With Yesterday's Sev'n Thousand Years - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Beneath the Couch of Earth descend - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

From the Tower of Darkness cries - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Thrust like foolish Prophets forth - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Their Words to Scorn are scatter'd - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

As Wind along the Waste - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

The Memory of this Impertinence - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Through the seventh Gate I rose - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Knots unravel'd by the Road - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

On Moment in Annihilation's Waste - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Of the Well of Life to taste - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

And the Caravan starts for the dawn - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

A Box whose Candle is the Sun - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

And, having writ, moves on - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

With Earth's first Clay - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Within the Temple caught - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

With Pitfall and with Gin beset - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Ere the better Moon arose - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

In an after Rage destroy - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Drown'd my Honour in a shallow Cup - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

Sold my Reputation for a Song - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

With Fate conspire to grasp - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

The Guests Star-scatter'd on The Grass - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (First Edition)

The Cup with sweet or bitter run - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

But cannot break his Sleep - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

That mourn in flowing Purple - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Hidden by the sleeve of Night - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

A clod of saturated Earth - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Naked on the Air of Heaven ride - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Existence closing your Account - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

That spangle of Existence spend - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Running Quicksilver-like eludes your pains - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Down on the stubborn floor of Earth - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Up to Heav'n's unopening Door - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Reduce the Year to better reckoning - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

The Shadow from a Soul on fire - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

With Paradise devise the Snake - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Within the Potter's house alone - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

With long Oblivion is gone dry - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

Drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

But was I sober when I swore? - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)

The yet unfolded Roll of Fate - Omar Khayyam "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" transl. by Edward Fitzgerald (Fifth Edition)


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A Troop in Silver Arms - Anne Killigrew "Alexandreis"

Dire Scarlet Plumes - Anne Killigrew "Alexandreis"

Where never Shepherd fed his Flock - Anne Killigrew "The Complaint of a Lover"

Barren as the Hopeless Flame - Anne Killigrew "The Complaint of a Lover"

Entrance hid with dismal Yew - Anne Killigrew "The Complaint of a Lover"

Unto the hollow Rocks repair - Anne Killigrew "The Complaint of a Lover"

Unequal Paths fond Mortals tread - Anne Killigrew "The Discontent"

Which such Thin Food can feed - Anne Killigrew "The Discontent"

The soft strains of David's Lyre - Anne Killigrew "The Discontent"

Danger with Honour court - Anne Killigrew "Extemporary Counsel given to a Young Gallant in a Frolick"

Though your Witchcrafts strike my Ear - Anne Killigrew "A Farwel to Worldly Joys" [sic]

To Reason bound - Anne Killigrew "A Farewell to Worldly Joyes"

Gilded Nothings - Anne Killigrew "A Farewell to Worldly Joyes"

With Ice united meet - Anne Killigrew "The Fourth Epigram: On Galla"

Converted was to Fire - Anne Killigrew "Love, the Soul of Poetry"

Nearer Mischiefs does conspire - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

Malice in these bounds restrain - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

Shakes the Throne of Sacred Wit - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

As if these Evils were too few - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

With hostile Aims pursue - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

Sent after weeping Eyes - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

Born by a brave Disdain - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

By rough Encounters broke - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

The Greatest Plagues to bear - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

Passions which the Reins have broke - Anne Killigrew "The Miseries of Man"

To Dust no longer cleave - Anne Killigrew "An Ode"

That will not view the Skies - Anne Killigrew "An Ode"

Jest and Scorn of Earth and Aire - Anne Killigrew "An Ode"

No subtile Serpents in the Grave betray - Anne Killigrew "On Death"

Our Priests of Heavenly Pastures - Anne Killigrew "A Pastoral Dialogue"

In Tears for her Telemachus - Anne Killigrew "To my Lady Berkeley, Afflicted upon her Son, My Lord Berkeley's Early Engaging in the Sea-Service"

In strongest Tempests he will rule the Wind - Anne Killigrew "To my Lady Berkeley, Afflicted upon her Son, My Lord Berkeley's Early Engaging in the Sea-Service"

The neglected Lyre to tune - Anne Killigrew "To My Lord Colrane, In Answer to his Complemental Verses sent me under the Name of Cleanor"

With Fancy richly fraught - Anne Killigrew "To My Lord Colrane, In Answer to his Complemental Verses sent me under the Name of Cleanor"

Who to ill Deeds their Glories owe - Anne Killigrew "To the Queen"

From Storms of boldest Impudence - Anne Killigrew "To the Queen"

Willingly accept Cassandra's Fate - Anne Killigrew "Upon the saying that my Verses were made by another"

Had so rich a store of Sacred Wreaths - Anne Killigrew "Upon the saying that my Verses were made by another"


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Washed up onshore like so much driftwood - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

On this splintered bridge to nowhere - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

Watching the first rockets launch into the unknown - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

A wooden spider web of boards beneath - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

Her sky grows dark and lightning-streaked - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

Still she stands vigil like stone - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

A golden disc sipping from the surf - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

Pelican shadows veer over me - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

Waited for my life to return from the sea - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"

Pack years in my bags like souvenirs - Beatriz F. Fernandez "The Time Tourist | El Turista del Tiempo"


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A trickle of oranges in the snow - Ilya Kaminsky "Above Blue Tin Roofs, Deafness"

The feather on my tongue - Ilya Kaminsky "Alfonso Stands Answerable"

Fire from a match you never lit - Ilya Kaminsky "Alfonso Stands Answerable"

Her shout a hole torn in the sky - Ilya Kaminsky "As Soldiers March, Alfonso Covers the Boy's Face with a Newspaper"

In my barbershop of thoughts - Ilya Kaminsky "Before the War, We Made a Child"

Snow pours out of the sun - Ilya Kaminsky "A Bundle of Laundry"

A ripped-out document of laughter - Ilya Kaminsky "A Cigarette"

Skewered with light - Ilya Kaminsky "Firing Squad"

Tell you what I know - Ilya Kaminsky "Firing Squad"

Breaking all their moments in half - Ilya Kaminsky "4 a.m. Bombardment"

The blue canary of my country - Ilya Kaminsky "4 a.m. Bombardment"

The four dimensions of breathing - Ilya Kaminsky "Galya's Toast"

These raindrops are my letters of recommendation - Ilya Kaminsky "Letters"

A battle worthy of our weapons - Ilya Kaminsky "Lullaby"

To make of silence a language - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"

Souls on crutches of bone - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"

Under the bare feet of their thoughts - Ilya Kaminsky "Search Patrols"

Inside the nostrils of searchlights - Ilya Kaminsky "Soldiers Aim at Us"

Made of stubbornness and a little air - Ilya Kaminsky "Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air"
Who danced wordless before God - Ilya Kaminsky "Such Is the Story Made of Stubbornness and a Little Air"

Feel the pulse of the house - Ilya Kaminsky "That Map of Bone and Opened Valves"

With bright whiskey anthems - Ilya Kaminsky "Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle"

And let the law go whistle - Ilya Kaminsky "Townspeople Speak of Galya on Her Green Bicycle"

Invisible house by invisible house - Ilya Kaminsky "We Lived Happily during the War"

Hundreds of old pianos forming a bridge - Ilya Kaminsky "What We Cannot Hear"

Since Noah was a sailor - Ilya Kaminsky "When Momma Galya First Protested"

In the mailboxes of the arrested - Ilya Kaminsky "When Momma Galya First Protested"

Which is the true curriculum of schools - Ilya Kaminsky "When Momma Galya First Protested"

A woman who speaks against silence - Ilya Kaminsky "While the Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses"

A good mile and a half of wind - Ilya Kaminsky "A Widower"


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The wasted fabric of an old delight - C.H.B. Kitchin "Epilogue"

The endless chain of unrepentant years - C.H.B. Kitchin "Epilogue"

The burden of a salt-encumbered tide - C.H.B. Kitchin "Eschatological Sonnet"

No word more bitter than sweet honey - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Wine more bitter than the taste of gall - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

When roses bloom most fully - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

The grand revolving spheres of heaven - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Teach the mind that hears their music - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Disarm the heart's rebellion - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Yields no store for hungry days - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

The bolts that bar his heart - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

In the cup of my calamity - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

The sharpened fang of frost - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Blade of sharp-projecting flint - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

A shipwreck far on lonely seas - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

The solemn moon in tears - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

The jewel in the toad's brown head - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

As lurks a bitter sting in honeyed words - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Pursue their empty sorceries - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

The miserable forebodings of the night - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Have fallen from me like gossamer - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Blaze with the fire of Semele - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

The hills nod musical assent - C.H.B. Kitchin "Opening Scene from 'Amphitryon'"

Refrained from clutching at iniquity - C.H.B. Kitchin "Ruler of infinite austerity"

Flame that licks the roof of hell - C.H.B. Kitchin "Ruler of infinite austerity"

The chant ineffable of hidden spheres - C.H.B. Kitchin "Ruler of infinite austerity"


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