Love Calls Us to the Things of This World By Richard Wilbur - Giggle Poems
The soul shrinks From all that it is about to remember, From the punctual rape of every blessèd day, And cries, “Oh, let there be nothing on earth but ...
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Eyes: By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
“That’s why all babies are beautiful,” Thurber used to say as he grew blind—not dark, he’d go on to explain, but floating in a pale light always, a ki ...
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I Know a Man By Robert Creeley - Giggle Poems
As I sd to my??? friend, because I am??? always talking,—John, I sd, which was not his??? name, the darkness sur- rounds us, what can we do against ...
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Heart’s Needle By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
1 Child of my winter, born When the new fallen soldiers froze In Asia’s steep ravines and fouled the snows, When I was torn By love I could not still, ...
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Report to Crazy Horse By William E. Stafford - Giggle Poems
Crazy Horse, it is not fair to hide a new vision from you. A teacher here says hurt or scorned people are places where real enemies hide. And I will t ...
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Montana Pastoral By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
I have seen fear where the coiled serpent rises, Thirst where the grasses burn in early May And thistle, mustard, and the wild oat stay.
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The Hospital Window By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
Higher and higher he lies Above me in a blue light Shed by a tinted window. I know that my father is there, In the shape of his death still living. He ...
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In the Tree House at Night By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
The needles and pine cones about me Are full of small birds at their roundest, Their fists without mercy gripping Hard down through the tree to the ro ...
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Cherrylog Road By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
She was tapping like code, Loosening the screws, Carrying off headlights, Sparkplugs, bumpers, Cracked mirrors and gear-knobs, Getting ready, already, ...
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Rhapsody By Frank O’Hara - Giggle Poems
515 Madison Avenue??? door to heaven? portal stopped realities and eternal licentiousness or at least the jungle of impossible eagerness your marble i ...
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Baudelaire By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
Dear Mother, is any time left to us In which to be happy? I am sick of having colds and headaches: You know my strange life. You little know A poet’s ...
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Saturday’s Child By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
Some are teethed on a silver spoon, ???With the stars strung for a rattle; I cut my teeth as the black raccoon— ???For implements of battle. Some are ...
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The Intruder By Carolyn Kizer - Giggle Poems
My mother—preferring the strange to the tame: Dove-note, bone marrow, deer dung, Frog’s belly distended with finny young, Leaf-mold wilderness, harebe ...
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I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You By Hayden Carruth - Giggle Poems
We move our feet crunching bitter snow while the storm crashes like god-wars down the east we shake the sparks from our eyes we quiver inside our shoc ...
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Passing Through By Ai - Giggle Poems
“Earth is the birth of the blues,” sang Yellow Bertha, as she chopped cotton beside Mama Rose. If it wasn’t for hell, we’d all be tapdancing with the ...
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Clouds By Denise Levertov - Giggle Poems
But I forced to mind my vision of a sky close and enclosed, unlike the space in which these clouds move— a sky of gray mist it appeared— and how looki ...
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