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		<title><![CDATA[Shut Not Your Doors to Me Proud Libraries]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shut not your doors to me, proud libraries,
For that which was lacking among you all, yet needed most, I bring;
A book I have made for your dear sake, O soldiers,
And for you, O soul of man, and you, love of comrades;
The words of my book nothing,...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1794620</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Feb/06/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Living Beauty]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'll say and maybe dream I have drawn content-
Seeing that time has frozen up the blood,
The wick of youth being burned and the oil spent-
From beauty that is cast out of a mould
In bronze, or that in dazzling marble appears,
Appears, but when we ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1794619</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Feb/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Circuitry]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I.
The rung wide
receiver forgets why

he set his keys on the football field.
Whose are they? he asks-a ringing

in his ear-while clenching
the green. As if on the edge

of a pool, he tilts his head to drain
water out of his canal.

It was like ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1794618</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Feb/04/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trombone]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[for Mari
There were carols on the kitchen radio, a late
cold night, entering the room
while straightening the blistered Navajo rug, I
remembered suddenly what the first eight notes
of hark, the herald angels sing felt like
vibrating through my ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1794617</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Feb/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Accidental Blues Voice]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[My ex-lover received it at seventeen
skiing the steep slope at Wintergreen called
Devil's Elbow. The early snowmelt along the Blue
Ridge had slipped the white limb of a birch

through the crust, jutted that camouflaged tip
into the center of the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1794171</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Feb/02/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Skit: Sun Ra Welcomes the Fallen]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[to fever and the millennium. The bullet is all consequence. Sun Ra refuses red - long and high, low and deep. His arms are long
enough to embrace them.

About this poem
"This poem makes myth out of tragedy as a way to cope with the sublime horror ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1794172</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Feb/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Night Is Still]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The night is still, the moon looks kind,
The dew hangs jewels in the heath,
An ivy climbs across thy blind,
And throws a light and misty wreath.

The dew hangs jewels in the heath,
Buds bloom for which the bee has pined;
I haste along, I quicker ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1611189</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jan/31/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Love's Body]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Love gives all its reasons
as if they were terms for peace.
Love is this but not that
that but not this.
Love as it always was.

But there is no peace in the mountain
cleft where the fruit bats scatter
from the light.
There is no peace in the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1610987</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jan/30/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Succession]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[One morning state police
escort us to your grave
the next my flight is canceled.

Maintenance issues breaking
out all over. You would speak
of a "grand theory," something

tying all this together, but
you had none yourself, none
that reached me ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1610821</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jan/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Walter de la Mare]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[One moment take thy rest.
Out of mere nought in space
Beauty moved human breast
To tell in this far face
A dream in noonday seen,
Never to fade or pass;
A breath-time's mute delight;
A joy in flight:
The aught desire doth mean
Sighing, Alas!

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1918424</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jan/28/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Heavy]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The narrow clearing down to the river
I walk alone, out of breath
my body catching on each branch.
Small children maneuver around me.

Often, I want to return to my old body
a body I also hated, but hate less

given knowledge.
Sometimes my friends...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1918182</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jan/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Elegy for a Year]]></title>
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Before I watched you die, I watched the dying
falter, their hearts curled and purring in them

like kitfoxes asleep
beside their shadows, their eyes pawed out by the trouble

of their hunger. I was
humbling, Lord, like the taxidermist's

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		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1917975</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jan/26/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Children of Aleppo]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[The children were asking
a thousand questions about why
the sky was blue and grass was green
when suddenly their tongues
were stilled by an answer they
never saw. Now silence rings
in their place so loud a stone
can hear it in Arkansas.
So why not...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1917563</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jan/25/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sea Garden]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Dead man's fingers-
short and still
or waving spindles
brain coral,
mountain coral
ground small-they
would be pebbles
if they weren't shards
hiding places
for trumpet
fish and crabs
live and dead coral
What is sand made of?
Who is to know
which ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1917103</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jan/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who Makes Love to Us After We Die]]></title>
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I turn on the radio and hear horses, girls becoming women after tragedy. Talk about dreams! His heart was covered in a thin shell the color of the moon, and when touched, I'd grow old. The best movies have a philosophy, Dorothy, after being ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1916638</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jan/23/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[After Ch'u Yuan]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will get me to the wood
Where the gods walk garlanded in wisteria,
By the silver-blue flood move others with ivory cars.
There come forth many maidens
to gather grapes for the leopards, my friend.
For there are leopards drawing the cars.

I will...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1916215</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jan/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thoughts While Walking]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[A steel hush freezes the trees.
It is my mind stretched to stiff lace,
And draped on high wide thoughts.

My soul is a large sallow park
And people walk on it, as they do on the park before me.
They numb my levelness with dumb feet,
Yet I cannot ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1915901</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jan/21/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Let Them Not Say]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let them not say:   we did not see it.
We saw.
Let them not say:   we did not hear it.
We heard.

Let them not say:     they did not taste it.
We ate, we trembled.

Let them not say:   it was not spoken, not written.
We spoke,
we witnessed with ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1915655</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jan/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Cachexia]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I woke up in my body
and wasn't that body anymore.
It's more like my dog-
for the most part obedient,
warming to me
when I slip it goldfish or toast,

but it sheds.
Can't get past a simple sit,
stay, turn over. House-trained, but not ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1915472</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jan/19/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Resurrection]]></title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the autumn I moved to New York,
I recognized her face all over the subway
stations-pearls around her throat, she poses
for her immigration papers. In 1924, the only
Americans required to carry identity cards
were ethnically Chinese-the first ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/poemdaily/s-1915153</link>
		
 
    <pubDate>Jan/18/2026</pubDate>
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