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Wislawa Szymborska: Cat in an Empty Apartment
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Bright Ideas
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Delmore Schwartz: When Many Hopes Were Dead and Most Disguises
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Doom Forest
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Roberto Bolaño: Godzilla in Mexico (from Romantic Dogs)
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Then and Now
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Thomas Hardy: Afterwards
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Robert Creeley: Versions (after Hardy)
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Blown Away
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Juan Gil-Albert: La Siesta ("What is the Earth?")
.Highway 85, Arizona: photo by James S Patterson, 21 February 2014 ..................To Antonio Diaz ZamoraWhen I arrive at that secret confine and they question me, “What is the Earth?”I should say a...
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Structure
. IMG_1963: photo by locaburg, 27 February 2014You're driving slowly and with all due caution down a back street in a neighborhood you're unfamiliar with, when the incident occurs. IMG_8128 (ladder):...
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Ryszard Kapuściński: The Ukrainian Plan (from Imperium)
.Bread for gold: a queue in Kharkiv during the time of Great Famine: photographer unknown, 1932 (State Archive of Ukraine)Historians explain the genocide in the Ukraine (and in the northern Caucasus)...
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Belated
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Party Animals
.Frescati backe: photo by Hans Söderström, 30 October 2013The party animals all lay battered and discardedin the weeds and tall grasswith the party long since overa lot of time would have to pass with...
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Ladybug
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William Blake: Reeds of Innocence
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John Ashbery: They Dream Only of America
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Not Wading but Sinking
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Product Placement
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Commercial Opportunities
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