The Pope Replies to the Ayatollah Khomeini By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
My Dear Khomeini: I read your fourteen thousand dollar ad asking me why the Vatican waited all of these years to send an envoy to complain about condi ...
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I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee By Howard Nemerov - Giggle Poems
One gas lamp burning near her shoulder Shone also from her other side Where hung the long inaccurate glass Whose pictures were as troubled water.
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New Netherland, 1654 By Grace Schulman - Giggle Poems
We raised a prayer house— that is, we broke new wood for one, but some tough burned it, snarling: “Carve only stones for the dead.” Damp ground, no fi ...
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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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Narcissus By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
THE MIND IS AN ANCIENT AND FAMOUS CAPITAL The mind is a city like London, Smoky and populous: it is a capital Like Rome, ruined and eternal, Marked by ...
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Fanny By Carolyn Kizer - Giggle Poems
That evening I paced up and down, dropping melon seeds, Tomatoes and bush lima beans here and there Where I thought they would grow. I planted kidney ...
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Eternity Blues By Hayden Carruth - Giggle Poems
I just had the old Dodge in the shop with that same damned front-end problem, and I was out, so to speak, for a test run, loafing along, maybe 35 m.p. ...
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Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward By Anne Sexton - Giggle Poems
You lie, a small knuckle on my white bed; lie, fisted like a snail, so small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. Yo ...
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The Moss of His Skin By Anne Sexton - Giggle Poems
I held my breath and daddy was there, his thumbs, his fat skull, his teeth, his hair growing like a field or a shawl.
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Salomé By Ai - Giggle Poems
But what if I tore you apart for those afternoons when I was fifteen and so like a bird of paradise slaughtered for its feathers. The three of us blen ...
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Nothing But Color By Ai - Giggle Poems
I didn’t write Etsuko, I sliced her open. She was carmine inside like a sea bass and empty. You laugh, holding me belly-down with your body. I take th ...
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Cuba, 1962 By Ai - Giggle Poems
Whoever tastes my woman in his candy, his cake, tastes something sweeter than this sugar cane; it is grief.
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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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The Kid By Ai - Giggle Poems
My sister rubs the doll’s face in mud, then climbs through the truck window. The old man yells for me to help hitch the team, but I keep walking aroun ...
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Killing Floor By Ai - Giggle Poems
RUSSIA, 1927 On the day the sienna-skinned man held my shoulders between his spade-shaped hands, easing me down into the azure water of Jordan, I woke ...
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