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The Ghosts We Love
… The Ghosts We Love When I was eleven my father died in a tragic inner-tube accident. If he hadn’t, then maybe I would not have become what I am—namely, a forty-two-year-old brother … face was flushed and he was whistling a happy tune and he also looked taller, more erect, as though after all those …
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Tube Rose
… condolences trailing behind them like coon tails on aerials, and the flower wreaths were wilting on the grave. “I … tonight or pay the fiery price,” and they’d pause for her commercial as fireflies Morse-flashed around the abelia. … look away. It was always a Planter’s peanut can, and I had come to hate them. Mr. Goober on the blue tin was always …
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Dark Bird
Dark Bird What do you want with me today, dark bird? Why are you flying low, beneath that branch? I know your shadow: you were long since gone, My killdeer, rough-winged swallow, mourning dove, Death plays its flute with all your bones, dark bird, You …
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Dear Critic,
… I will sleep here         next to you. My blood will take comfort in the sheets, will be loved         into the … the blood in the sun and know only that someone slowly died here. Poetry 175 By Julianna Baggott …
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The Storm That Won’t Quit
… of devastation. Within months came records, poems, novels, comics, essays, academic and political studies, films, TV shows, exposés, paintings, blogs. Now there … only what context immediately informs his scenes. He also resists the standard encomia to pat Big Easyisms— …
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Spoon River Bard
… As it turns out, Masters’s own grave—he died in 1950 at the age of 81—lies a mere 40 paces from that … Masters’s epitaph inscribed in 1921. As Herbert K. Russell comments in his sympathetic, balanced, judicious, … the everyday colloquialness of Williams and others. One can also hear in the end words …
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