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Riddle: I am named for my fleeting motion. Numbered zero and four score more. A barren desert and a heavy ocean. One is flowing, the other a solid..
Riddle: Out of the Four Cardinal directions which direction is preferred for baking ?Answer: Y-East.
Riddle: The less of them you have; the more one is worth. Who/What are they?Answer: Friends.
Riddle: I cease to be after I commence, Here I am, then back once more. A simple treat for another sense. Given, taken, or stolen, a thing you can’t..
Riddle: A glow in the dark, A place without life, Where a small spark, Means the greatest strife. Where am I?Answer: Space.
Riddle: You try to gain more of me with every coin. You travel every distance to obtain me. You try every illusion to believe you have me. What am..
Riddle: By the clanking of rails and the bristling of sails, I am no more than a fathom away. I may be behind your neck or as miniature as a spec..
In Midas' Country
Meadows of gold dust. The silverCurrents of the Connecticut fanAnd meander in bland pleatings underRiver-verge farms where rye-heads whiten.All's..
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New Year On Dartmoor
This is newness : every little tawdryObstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar,Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only youDon't know what to make..
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Yaddo : The Grand Manor
Woodsmoke and a distant loudspeakerFilter into this clearAir, and blur.The red tomato's in, the green bean;The cook lugs a pumpkinFrom the vineFor..
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Incommunicado
The groundhog on the mountain did not runBut fatly scuttled into the splayed fernAnd faced me, back to a ledge of dirt, to rattleHer sallow rodent..
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On Deck
Midnight in the mid-Atlantic. On deck.Wrapped up in themselves as in thick veilingAnd mute as mannequins in a dress shop,Some few passangers keep..
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Natural History
That lofty monarch, Monarch Mind,Blue-blooded in coarse country reigned;Though he bedded in ermine, gorged on roast,Pure Philosophy his love..
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Mussel Hunter At Rock Harbor
I came before the water —-Colorists came to get theGood of the Cape light that scoursSand grit to sided crystalAnd buffs and sleeks the blunt hullsOf..
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Whitsun
This is not what I meant:Stucco arches, the banked rocks sunning in rows,Bald eyes or petrified eggs,Grownups coffined in stockings and..
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Terminal
Riding home from credulous blue domes,the dreamer reins his waking appetitein panic at the crop of catacombssprung up like plague of toadstools..
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Event
How the elements solidify! —-The moonlight, that chalk cliffIn whose rift we lieBack to back. I hear an owl cryFrom its cold indigo.Intolerable..
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Blue Moles
1They're out of the dark's ragbag, these twoMoles dead in the pebbled rut,Shapeless as flung gloves, a few feet apart —-Blue suede a dog or fox has..
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The Great Carbuncle
We came over the moor-topThrough air streaming and green-lit,Stone farms foundering in it,Valleys of grass alteringIn a light neither dawnNor..
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The Times Are Tidy
Unlucky the hero bornIn this province of the stuck recordWhere the most watchful cooks go joblessAnd the mayor's rôtisserie turnsRound of its own..
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The Glutton
He, hunger-strung, hard to slake,So fitted is for my black luck(With heat such as no man could haveAnd yet keep kind)That all merit's in being..
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The Detective
What was she doing when it blew inOver the seven hills, the red furrow, the blue mountain?Was she arranging cups? It is important.Was she at the..
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'Célibataire'
Or, cette jeune fille pointilleuseLors d'une cérémonieuse promenade en avrilAvec son dernier soupirantFut soudain frappée, intolérablement,Par le..
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Spider
Anansi, black busybody of the folktales,You scuttle out on impulseBlunt in self-interestAs a sledge hammer, as a man's bunched fist,Yet of devils the..
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Parliament Hill Fields
On this bald hill the new year hones its edge.Faceless and pale as chinaThe round sky goes on minding its business.Your absence is..
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