Eating the Pig By Donald Hall - Giggle Poems
Then two young men, who cooked him, carry him to the table on a large square of plywood: his body striped, like a tiger cat’s, from the basting, his l ...
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Eating Together By Li-Young Lee - Giggle Poems
In the steamer is the trout??? seasoned with slivers of ginger, two sprigs of green onion, and sesame oil.??? We shall eat it with rice for lunch,??? ...
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Persimmons By Li-Young Lee - Giggle Poems
Dew: I’ve forgotten. Naked: I’ve forgotten. Wrens are small, plain birds, yarn is what one knits with. Knowing it wasn’t ripe or sweet, I didn’t eat b ...
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From Blossoms By Li-Young Lee - Giggle Poems
From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at the bend in the road where we turned toward??? signs painted Peaches . ...
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Thompson’s Lunch Room—Grand Central Station By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
The big room is coloured like the petals Of a great magnolia, And has a patina Of flower bloom Which makes it shine dimly Under the electric lamps. Th ...
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Fork By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
This strange thing must have crept Right out of hell. It resembles a bird’s foot Worn around the cannibal’s neck. As you hold it in your hand, As you ...
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A Young Lady of Lynn By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
There was a young lady of Lynn, Who was so uncommonly thin ??? That when she essayed ??? To drink lemonade She slipped through the straw and fell in.
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I Eat My Peas with Honey By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
I eat my peas with honey; I've done it all my life. It makes the peas taste funny, But it keeps them on the knife.
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Sing a Song of Sixpence By Mother Goose - Giggle Poems
Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye, Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened The birds began to sing— Wasn't tha ...
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“A peanut sat on a railroad track ...” By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
A peanut sat on a railroad track, His heart was all a-flutter. The five-fifteen came rushing by-- Toot toot!???Peanut butter!
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On A Diet By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
Something like the body of the poet’s work, with its pale shadows, begins to pare and replace the poet’s body, and isn’t it time?
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A Wicker Basket By Robert Creeley - Giggle Poems
Comes the time when it’s later and onto your table the headwaiter??? puts the bill, and very soon after rings out the sound of lively laughter— Picki ...
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Happy Hour By Alan R. Shapiro - Giggle Poems
The tipped wine poised at the brim is the beginning of the bad girl she’ll promise never to be again tomorrow, who can taunt him now to prove he doesn ...
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Depression Glass By Ted Kooser - Giggle Poems
It seemed those rose-pink dishes??? she kept for special company??? were always cold, brought down??? from the shelf in jingling stacks,??? the plates ...
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Sober Song By Barton Sutter - Giggle Poems
Farewell to the starlight in whiskey, So long to the sunshine in beer. So so long to God in a bottle, To the lies of rum and vermouth.
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