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Earth
Who sees what is between us? Who sees ova gestures, one frayed blue blanket thrown around the two of us, and the things we do with our eyes, how we...
5/1/08 by Ford, Katie · More from publication
Beirut
Ruin is a promise we make to each other. I am born the day Saigon falls ' and Lebanon takes to its own throat a club. On that day southern...
5/1/08 by Ford, Katie · More from publication
Earth
If you respect the dead and recall where they died by this time tomorrow there will be nowhere to walk...
5/1/08 by Ford, Katie · More from publication
Overture
It's grief that tears the paper lanterns right where the calligraphy begins to tell of the ferocious heart of some other dynasty that boasted...
5/1/08 by Ford, Katie · More from publication
"The One who said 'No violence' . . ."
The One who said "No violence" Said "mountains," And they are here, storm-violent, of stone. Whoever looks across their peaks and wonders Will...
5/1/08 by Stafford, William · More from publication
For Poems-'42 and '43
I carry pieces of my world before the crowd. When I drop them everyone hears. I put them together, but they are not the same. I take them back. I...
5/1/08 by Stafford, William · More from publication