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for BethO, terrible angel,bright lover and avenger,full of whimsical light and vile anger;wild stranger,seeking the solace of night, or the danger;pal..
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Suddenly uncomfortableto stay at my grandfather’s house(actually his third new wife’s)in her daughter’s bedroom--one interminable su..
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Abideby Michael R. Burchafter Philip Larkin’s “Aubade”It is hard to understand or accept mortality"such an alien concept: not to be...
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1.Poetry, I found youwhere at last they chained and bound you;with devices all around youto torture and confound you,I found you -- "shivering, bare.2..
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We saw their pictures:tortured out of Our imaginationslike golems.We could not believein their frail extremitiesor their gaunt faces,pallid as Our dis..
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a young Romantic Poet mourns the passing of an age . . .
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Desire glides in on calico wings,a breath of a mothseeking a companionable light,where it hovers, unsure, sullen, shy or demure,in the margins of n..
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from “songs of the sea snails”-though i’m just a slimy crawler, my lineage is proud:my forebears gave their lives (oh, let the tru..
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Tonight we keep the flame alive;we keep the candle lit.We burn bright incense in your nameand swear we’ll not forget�"your innocence..
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Greek epigram attributed to Plato, translation by Michael R. Burch
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