November 2016
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 331
gently afraid of nature causes just though dominion thus shrinks from virtuous designs there goes inward a reference toward fear it may exhibit as being carried only in our limitation the idea discovers us so far as outbursts beautiful what is man seeking only a fitting fear states respect for comparison which is never…
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Veglia, by Giuseppe Ungaretti
Veglia Un’intera nottata Buttato vicino A un compagno Massacrato Con la sua bocca Digrignata Volta al plenilunio Con la congestione Delle sue mani Penetrata Nel mio silenzio Ho scritto Lettere piene d’amore Non sono mai stato Tanto Attaccato alla vita Cima Quattro, il 23 dicembre 1915 Vigil The whole night Discarded Beside a friend Massacred…
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Dennis Doherty
Everything Have I seen you bikini’d? The air solidifies around the sound Of your waxed body A love song Yes The men smoldering on the sidewalk Have a conversation about Hades Reduced to vapor Southwest Virginia Nothing Encasement of cultural cache in nylon Tied in a neat knot between keen Shoulder blades Pale duvet on…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 330
luxure obsolete from the whistling verb float rather the 1660s relay reluctance lasting and first attested sometime around 1661 lather reluctantly wrestle stains see related lasciviousness lust 1520 screams obsolescence the verb first fury related which attests sometime in 1660 the king burns grace which is reluctance latin relates 60 pounds of cake perhaps…
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