Poem with One Fact By Donald Hall - Giggle Poems
"At pet stores in Detroit, you can buy frozen rats for seventy-five cents apiece, to feed your pet boa constrictor" back home in Grosse Pointe, or in ...
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Black Boys Play the Classics By Toi Derricotte - Giggle Poems
The most popular “act” in Penn Station is the three black kids in ratty sneakers & T-shirts playing two violins and a cello—Brahms.
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Queens Cemetery, Setting Sun By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
Airport bus from JFK cruising through Queens passing huge endless cemetery??? by Long Island’s old expressway (once a dirt path for wheelless Indians) ...
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The Bad Old Days By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
Debauched and exhausted faces, Starved and looted brains, faces Like the faces in the senile And insane wards of charity Hospitals. Then as the soiled ...
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Crossing the Square By Grace Schulman - Giggle Poems
The frosted, starch- stiff sycamores make a lean Christmas tree seem to bulk larger, tilted under the arch and still lit in three colors. Now, trekkin ...
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A Step Away from Them By Frank O’Hara - Giggle Poems
It’s my lunch hour, so I go for a walk among the hum-colored cabs. First, down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening torsos sandwich ...
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The Day Lady Died By Frank O’Hara - Giggle Poems
It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton ...
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Quantum By Kim Addonizio - Giggle Poems
Because later, when you’re home, looking out your window at the ocean, at the calm of the horizon line, and the apple in your hand glows in that golde ...
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Old Woman in a Housecoat By Georgiana Cohen - Giggle Poems
An old woman in a floor-length housecoat had become sunset to me, west-facing. Turquoise, sage, or rose, she leans out of her second floor window, chi ...
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