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The Door Was Open and the House Was Dark
Seamus Heaney
‘I called his name, although I knew / The answer this time would be silence / That kept me standing listening while it grew.’
Two Poems
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
‘It was a cruelty I first tried to blame on nature, / Then on growing up, on falling off, on it being / Just an old myth.’
Bianca Burning
C.K. Williams
‘The sexual terror lions are roaring into my ears as I make my way between their cages’
Don’t Flinch
Adrienne Rich
‘Lichen-green lines of shingle pulsate and waver / when you lift your eyes. It’s the glare.’
A poem by Adrienne Rich.
In the Village
Derek Walcott
‘I came up out of the subway and there were / people standing on the steps as if they knew / something I didn’t.’
Midnight on Lake Michigan
Diego Báez
‘But really, your disappearance / has never been a question of whether.’
Two-Part Inventions
Anne Winters
‘The same way Bach’s motive splays out to the right, / swoons flatly, swans it, footnotes, follows up, / talks to itself, purls, mutters, dawdles, resumes. . .’
