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Recycled Houses
Saw this article in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/garden/03recycle.html
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...that fatal and that barer sky...
Anatomy of Monotony
Wallace Stevens
I.
If from the earth we came, it was an earth
That bore us as a part of all the things
It breeds and that was lewder than it is.
Our nature is her nature. Hence it comes,
Since by our nature we grow old, earth grows
The same. We parallel the mother’s death.
She walksan autumn ampler than the wind
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Do You Love Me? by Robert Wrigley
Do You Love Me? by Robert Wrigley
She's twelve and she's asking the dog,
who does, but who speaks
in tongues, whose feints and gyrations
are themselves parts of speech.
They're on the back porch
and I don't really mean to be taking this in
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"Tu Secreto"/"Your Secret" by Evaristo Carriego
From ¡De todo te olvidas! Antología: Los mejores poemas del autor...
Tu secreto
by Evaristo Carriego
¡De todo te olvidas! Anoche dejaste
aquí, sobre el piano, que ya jamás tocas,
un poco de tu alma de muchacha enferma:
un libro, vedado, de tiernas memorias.
Intimas memorias. Yo lo abrí, al descuido,
y supe, sonriendo, tu pena más honda,
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"Self Pity" by DH Lawrence
Self Pity
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
DH Lawrence
