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Anne Porter by poemelfDecember 8, 2020

Day 24 of the Poem Elf 2020 Countdown

To kick off the countdown series, a poem at a coronavirus testing site— Susanna by Anne Porter Nobody in the hospital Could tell the age Of the old woman who Was called Susanna I knew she spoke some English And that she was an immigrant Out of a little country Trampled by […]

William Ernest Henley by poemelfJanuary 2, 2018

Unafraid in 2018

Invictus by William Earnest Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, […]