Men in the City ~ Alfonsina Storni Translated from the Spanish by Rachel Benson The woods of the horizon are on fire; eluding flames, the swift blue bucks of twilight cross. Little golden goats migrate toward the vault and recline on the blue moss. Below, the city rises up, a cement rose, motionless on its […]
Sorrows of the Moon ~ Charles Baudelaire This evening the moon dreams more lazily; As some fair woman, lost in cushions deep, With gentle hand caresses listlessly The contour of her breasts before she sleeps, On velvet backs of avalanches soft She often lies enraptured as she dies, And gazes on white visions aloft Which […]
The Birds ~ William Blake He: Where thou dwellest, in what grove, Tell me Fair One, tell me Love; Where thou thy charming nest dost build, O thou pride of every field! She: Yonder stands a lonely tree, There I live and mourn for thee; Morning drinks my silent tear, And evening winds my sorrow […]
Superior ~ Deborah Garrison She came to dread the way he would wander into her offic his eyes flicking over the papers on her desk as though it offended him to have to interrupt tasks that were being done for him, as though the details she was mistress of would needlessly clutter his manager’s mind. […]
