A Phonecall from Frank O’Hara By Anne Waldman - Giggle Poems
I want to be free of poetry's ornaments, its duty, free of constant irritation, me in it, what was grander reason for being? ‘While frank and free/cal ...
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Invocation to the Social Muse By Archibald MacLeish - Giggle Poems
Preferring life with the sons to death with the fathers, We also doubt on the record whether the sons Will still be shouting around with the same huzz ...
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If my Enemy is a Clown, a Natural Born Clown By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
i tore down my thoughts roped in my nightmares remembered a thousand curses made blasphemous vows to demons choked on the blood of hosts ??? ate my ha ...
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Skin Cancer By Mark Jarman - Giggle Poems
Balmy overcast nights of late September; Palms standing out in street light, house light; Full moon penetrating the cloud-film With an explosive halo, ...
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The Delicacy By Sandra McPherson - Giggle Poems
We were wading in your lake with bluegills and you said, Be careful, you will lose your beauty marks To their little jaws.
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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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The Pool By Robert Creeley - Giggle Poems
My embarrassment at his nakedness,??? at the pool’s edge, and my wife, with his, standing, watching— this was a freedom??? not given me who am??? mor ...
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Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937 By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
In the morning We swam in the cold transparent lake, the blue Damsel flies on all the reeds like millions Of narrow metallic flowers, and I thought Of ...
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The Author to His Body on Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80 By Howard Nemerov - Giggle Poems
Dear old equivocal and closest friend, Grand Vizier to a weak bewildered king, Now we approach The Ecclesiastean Age Where the heart is like to go off ...
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The Courtesy By Alan R. Shapiro - Giggle Poems
On either side of me the houses Like solid shadow, blocks of silence In the violet light, so dim without dimming. I wanted to ask you what it was like ...
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Three Men Walking, Three Brown Silhouettes By Alicia Ostriker - Giggle Poems
They shake their heads, still, after the dinner Walking back to the car, while an evening snow That has started windlessly, white from pearl-gray, Fal ...
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With Mercy for the Greedy By Anne Sexton - Giggle Poems
Concerning your letter in which you ask me to call a priest and in which you ask me to wear The Cross that you enclose; your own cross, your dog-bitte ...
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