Harness

Little soul,

you and I will become

the memory

of a memory of a memory.

A horse

released of the traces

forgets the weight of the wagon.

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Leon Abelardo Sanchez

Slow the voice goes slower. …

Robert Fernandez

with prewar poems …

Basil Bunting

The woman sits clutching her knees …

Nyla Matuk

Death is like the insect …

Emily Dickinson

Like a glove. Molecules vaporized, …

Bink Noll

Long declined Lang dwynit is the wearie mune moon …

Sydney Goodsir Smith

Ah what avails the sceptred race, …

Walter Savage Landor

The glossary

From aubade to zuihitsu, 207 definitions of the forms, figures, and schools that shape the line.