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America by Tony Hoagland

America by Tony Hoagland Then one of the students with blue hair and a tongue stud    Says that America is for him a maximum-security...

Sunrise by Budd Powell Mahan

Sunrise by Budd Powell Mahan It amazes that this cosmic burst, the very fan of orange that lighted dinosaurs, ignites this...

Sonnet XXIV by Louise Labé

Sonnet XXIV by Louise Labé Do not blame me, ladies, if I have loved, If I have felt a thousand burning torches, A thousand labors, a...

Knoxville, Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni

Knoxville, Tennessee by Nikki Giovanni I always like summer best you can eat fresh corn from daddy's garden and okra and greens and...

Bent to the Earth by Blas Manuel De Luna

Bent to the Earth by Blas Manuel De Luna They had hit Ruben with the high beams, had blinded him so that the van he was driving, full of...

Counting Towards Sleep by Nance Van Winckel

Counting Toward Sleep by Nance Van Winckel From each corner the grey cranes appear and, as if wingless, march off like old soldiers,...

Tomatoes of Kobarid by Christina Cook

Tomatoes of Kobari by Christina Cook Many of the Italian soldiers who died in the World War I Battle of Caporetto, near present- day...

For the Graduation [Bolinas School, June 11, 1971] by Robert Creeley

For the Graduation [Bolinas School, June 11, 1971] by Robert Creeley for Sarah Pretension has it you can't get back what's gone by....

The Traveling Onion by Naomi Shihab Nye

The Traveling Onion by Naomi Shihab Nye “It is believed that the onion originally came from India. In Egypt it was an  object of...

White Sands by Arthur Sze

White Sands by Arthur Sze --Walking along a ridge of white sand-- it's cooler below the...