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Li-Young Lee - One Heart

Look at the birds.

Dec 28, 2025 • Mike Rivera

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Maya C. Popa - After

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Mary Jo Salter - Mr. X

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James Tate - A Tattered Bible Stuffed With Memos

I stood at the southwest window for a long time just staring out at the field and empty road.

Dec 12, 2025 • Mike Rivera

James Tate - Just to Feel Human

A single apple grew on our tree, which was some kind of miracle because it was a pear tree.

Dec 3, 2025 • Mike Rivera

Mary Jo Salter - Mr. X

By the time you’re forty, you’ve met so many people their features fall in place as little bits from other people, like the Identi-Kits that victims…

Oct 28, 2025 • Mike Rivera

Philip Larkin - Observation

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock, The hand impervious to nervous shock, The future proofed against our…

Oct 16, 2025 • Mike Rivera

Mouthfeel #2 - Sibilance (s and sh)

So I thought Mouthfeel was it, but I hate that title a lot more than I did last time.

Oct 11, 2025 • Mike Rivera

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