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Miracle Ice Cream

Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue,
Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls,
and, yes, you can feel happy
with one piece of your heart.

Take what's still given: in a room's rich shadow
a woman's breasts swinging lightly as she bends.
Early now the pearl of dusk dissolves.
Late, you sit weighing the evening news,
fast-food miracles, ghostly revolutions,
the rest of your heart.
Adrienne Rich
1995

My Philosophy of Life

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough
for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—
call it a philosophy of life, if you will.  Briefly,
it involved living the way philosophers live,
according to a set of principles. OK, but which ones?

John Ashbery
1995

Blue Girls

 
John Crowe Ransom

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    Alexis Aceves Garcia

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    Kyle Carrero Lopez

    Kyle Carrero Lopez is the author of Party Line (Graywolf Press, 2026) and Muscle Memory ([PANK] Books, 2022), winner of the 2020 [PANK] Books Contest.
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    Kashiana Singh

    Kashiana Singh is the author of Dualities of Alberio (The Poetry Box, 2025); Witching Hour (Glass Lyre Press, 2024); Woman by the Door (Apprentice House Press, 2022); and Crushed Anthills (Yavanika Press, 2020).
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Year of the Dog Deborah Paredez Poetry Book 2020
Borderland Apocrypha Anthony Cody Poetry Book 2020
Indigo Ellen Bass Poetry Book 2020
DMZ Colony Don Mee Choi 2020
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