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He promised her it wasn’t just a fling. He wasn’t the type (he said) to run around; She noticed he still wears a wedding ring, Though he claims it’s absolutely nothing. A… Read More
“Literary Artifacts” by Ernest Hilbert
“Samuel Johnson’s gallstone was ‘about the size of a pigeon’s egg.’ (Compare the size of Pepys’s!)” – Richard Altick, The Scholar Adventurers Samuel Pepys suffered from a grand gallstone. Some claim it… Read More
“James Bond Suite” by Amit Majmudar
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“Jazzonia” by Langston Hughes
In a Harlem cabaret Six long-headed jazzers play. A dancing girl whose eyes are bold Lifts high a dress of silken gold. Oh, singing tree! Oh, shining rivers of the soul! Were… Read More
“One Day” by Jamie McKendrick
I shall pick up and play the violin my hopeful great-uncle made for me out of seventy-odd planished bits of maple, its scrolled head a ruby-tinted fern. It sailed across the ocean… Read More
“Deciding to Stay” by Chelsea Rathburn
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“Randall Jarrell” by Robert Lowell
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“Improprieties” by Ernest Hilbert
My friend is a fugitive from the law. For fifteen years he’s been on the “run.” What to do? Let’s get this cold keg started. We’ll deal with it tomorrow. The one… Read More
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“The Theft” by David Yezzi
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“Summer Downpour on Campus” by Juliana Gray
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“Junkyard” by Carmine Starnino
Owning nothing, there is, I see today, a touch of those cars about my life, a touch of decay in that flotsam of chrome I recognize, demanding a new curiosity, a new… Read More
“The Valley of the Black Pig” by William Butler Yeats
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“A Suburbanite Briefs a Historian”
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“Asphodel” by A.E. Stallings
(after the words of Penny Turner, Nymphaion, Greece) Our guide turned in her saddle, broke the spell: “You ride now through a field of asphodel, The flower that grows on the plains… Read More
“The War Correspondent Returns to his Neighborhood” by Ernest Hilbert
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“Minotaur” by Joanna Pearson
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“Thoughts upon Reading George Gissing’s New Grub Street” by Ernest Hilbert
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“White Noise” by Ernest Hilbert
The past does not fade, nor does it decline; It merely grows louder, slightly, tone by tone, Until its vast din is blank as silence. The grand chords boom on for some… Read More
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