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Shirley Hazzard

We have mysterious inclinations. No one can explain it to us.

Shorn

The only person I’d seen naked was my mother the night she died.

Silent Night

Like a god I shook their tiny worlds, terrible but ineffectual storms.

Silk & Silk

She was the idiot who fell in love with some high-class gigolo.

Since the Accident

Since the accident she lost her hold on the world and never got it back.

Singing

Grandma was forced to break her vow of silence only three times.

Six Million and One

They come to America and their child is shot down like a wild animal.

Sky Tongued Back with Light

You’ll find me here in the peach orchard, the most I can muster.

Skylight

Now I’m no longer the buzzards glooming over the mango tree.

Sleepy

Hearing the baby’s cry, Varka finds the enemy who is crushing her heart.

Slope

In school, he was called gook, chink, and one boy called him ching-chong.

Smoke Days

Teddy, the new sous chef, is on fire again. It’s the second time in a week. I make a silent promise to myself never to have sex on a beach, not even with Ryan Gosling.

Smokehouse

I think you’re carrying on to get your brothers in trouble.

Snapshots of My Brother

We’re all trying, in our own ways, to parse what we may have done wrong.

Somehow They Get into You

His thoughts swirl around him. Maybe women aren’t women anymore.

Something Lost

Mr. Holt had grown old since Beverly last saw him. He looked weary.

Sonoran Song and Other Poems

For eight weeks no one heard my voice for eight weeks no one slept.

Sounding

This summer I mothered my brother’s death; I brothered my mother’s cancer. My brother and mother died this summer, two of seven billion.

Spot the Stations

When I wasn’t teaching social studies, I basically lived on my balcony.

Star of the River Opera

Son, do you know of shame? Then you must know that I cannot feel it.

Statehood

I couldn’t make sense of the ruined house, the love stained to its creases. Sometimes life is a sequence of departures, sometimes a destruction.

Stealing Time

Maybe all of it was possible. Maybe it all could work out.

Still Here, Still There

Here they were, two surviving soldiers from opposite sides.

Stones

Long and black, almost thick, the night comes to drape my shoulders.

Strangers

It was half the Spanish he knew—stop, I have a shotgun.

Subject, Verb, Object

Turned out Bauer was one of the ones brought alive by misery.

Summer

Up there there’s not a sound except for the wind and the buzzing of bees.

Swallow

If it were me, kid, I’d swallow. You bet I would. But first I’d run like hell.

Tankas

My children, children, remember to let me go, delete my number.

Tapestry

In Ovid’s tale, the virgin Philomela was raped by her brother-in-law.