‘One Art’ by Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many thingsĀ  seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.   Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.   Then practice losing farther; losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant…

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The Eye-mote by Sylvia Plath

Blameless as daylight I stood looking At a field of horses, necks bent, manes blown, Tails streaming against the green Backdrop of sycamores. Sun was striking White chapel pinnacles over the roofs, Holding the horses, the clouds, the leaves   Steadily rooted though they were all flowing Away to the left like reeds in a sea When the splinter flew in and stuck my eye,…

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