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'Sheep In Fog' by Sylvia Plath

The hills step off into whiteness. People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them. The train...

Sep 30th

'what the mirror said' by Lucille...

listen, you a wonder. you a city of a woman. you got a geography of your own. listen,...

Sep 29th

'Animula, vagula, blandula' by Hadrian

My little soul, my vagrant charmer, The friend and house-guest of this matter, Where will you now...

Sep 28th

'The Last Supper' by Jacques Prévert

They are at table They eat not Nor touch their plates And their plates stand straight up Behind...

Sep 28th

'Ted's Head' by Rod Smith

So there’s this episode of Mary Tyler Moore where Ted’s trying to get a raise &...

Sep 7th

'A Dream' by Jorge Luis Borges

In a deserted place in Iran there is a not very tall stone tower that has neither door nor window....

Sep 6th

'Dedication' by Gustavo Pérez Firmat

The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My...

Sep 5th

'Nantucket' by William Carlos Williams

Flowers through the window lavender and yellow changed by white curtains – Smell of cleanliness...

Sep 4th

'SILENCE = DEATH' by Rafael Campo

His worn-out T-shirt, black as mourning, black as countless deaths, surprises me—it screams a...

Sep 3rd

'Woman to Man' by Judith Wright

The eyeless labourer in the night, the selfless, shapeless seed I hold, builds for its...

Sep 3rd