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Lighthouse at Night —Alfonsina Storni Translated from Spanish by Jim Normington The sky is a black sphere and the sea is a black disc. On the coast the lighthouse unfolds its fan of light. Who is it looking for endlessly in the night as it turns endlessly? If it looks into my heart it will […]
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Sorrow Is Not My Name By Ross Gay —after Gwendolyn Brooks No matter the pull toward brink. No matter the florid, deep sleep awaits. There is a time for everything. Look, just this morning a vulture nodded his red, grizzled head at me, and I looked at him, admiring the sickle of his beak. Then […]
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Barcelona ~ George Franklin I imagine you on a cold day in Barcelona, wind Lashing the spires of Sagrada Familia and the palm trees By the beach dreaming of Africa, listening To obscenities shouted by the waves. I imagine you with a leather coat And lapis earrings and a blouse almost As smooth as your […]
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Reluctance —Robert Frost Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view And looked at the world, and descended; I have come by the highway home, And lo, it is ended. The leaves are all dead on the ground, Save those that the […]
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Jenny Xie’s poem “Chinatown Diptych,” performed by the poet. Part of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation’s Read By series of poetry films. Directed by Jean Coleman and produced in collaboration with 92nd Street Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center. Learn more about Xie and explore more poetry at https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/.