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A Secret Life
by Stephen DunnWhy you need to have oneis not much more mysterious thanwhy you don't say what you thinkat the birth of an ugly baby. Or, you've just made loveand feel you'd rather have beenin a dark booth where your partnerwas nodding, whispering, ye...
After a Movie
by Henry TaylorThe last small credits fadeas house lights rise. Dazed in that radiant instantof transition, you dwindle through the lobbyand out to curbside, pulling on a glovewith the decisive competenceof the scarred detectiveor his quarry. Scan...
The Layers -- by Stanley Kunitz
The Layers -- by Stanley Kunitz I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray. When I look behind, as I am compelled to look before I can ga...
The Exchange by Ron Rash
Thanks to The Writer's Almanac The Exchange by Ron RashBetween Wytheville, Virginiaand the North Carolina line,he meets a wagon headedwhere he's been, seated besideher parents a dark-eyed girlwho grips the reins in her fist,no more than sixteen, he'd...
Billy Collins - Bugs
Bugs - The Wall Street JournalThere he leans:cracking wise,biting his bright orange carrotbugging the worldspeed demonventriloquistand master of disguisehe is everywhere at oncebuck-toothedand spectacularly earedhe is armed with dynamitehe is the onl...
