Scenes from Modern Life
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Scenes from Modern Life

Poems about daily routines, contemporary culture, and life in the modern world.

53 poems

The Coming Woman
Mary Weston Fordham
The Farmer
W.D. Ehrhart
the ISM
Wanda Coleman
The Jogger on Riverside Drive, 5:00 A.M.
Agha Shahid Ali
The Snow-Storm
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Universe as Primal Scream
Tracy K. Smith
The Wheelchairs
Anne Hussey
There Is No Word
Tony Hoagland
Through a Glass Eye, Lightly
Carolyn Kizer
Using a Hula Hoop Can Get You Abducted By Aliens
Matthea Harvey
Very Large Moth
Craig Arnold
Waking from Sleep
Robert Bly
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