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some vile, careless, casual gook/ had spoiled the best thing in the book

31 January 200922 May 2015 joannemerriam

On murder in the first degree      The Law, I knew, is rigid: Its attitude, if A kills B,      To A is always frigid. …Nevertheless, I

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Where the Bee Sucks (William Shakespeare)

30 January 200922 May 2015 joannemerriam

Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip’s bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat’s back I

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Emily Dickinson’s “Beclouded”

28 January 200922 May 2015 joannemerriam

The Sky is low — the Clouds are mean. A Travelling Flake of Snow Across a Barn or through a Rut Debates if it will

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There’s such splendid work for the blind.

27 January 200922 May 2015 joannemerriam

Do they matter?—those dreams from the pit?… You can drink and forget and be glad, And people won’t say that you’re mad; For they’ll know

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a face that says half-past seven the same way whether a murder or a wedding goes on

25 January 200922 May 2015 joannemerriam

A tall one I know at the end of a hallway broods in shadows and is watching booze eat out the insides of the man

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“Susanna and the Elders” by Adelaide Crapsey

16 January 200922 May 2015 joannemerriam

“Why do You thus devise Evil against her?” “For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore.”

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From Emily Dickinson’s “Hope” is the thing with feathers

10 January 200922 May 2015 joannemerriam

“Hope” is the thing with feathers— That perches in the soul— And sings the tune without the words— And never stops—at all—

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