Penumbra By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
As I sit here in the quiet Summer night, Suddenly, from the distant road, there comes The grind and rush of an electric car. Sitting here in the Summe ...
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Old Couple By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
Tonight they watch the window Without exchanging a word. If their window stays dark, I know his hand has reached hers Just as she was about to turn on ...
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The Author Reflects on His 35th Birthday By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
Make me Tennessee mean Cobra mean Cuckoo mean Injun mean Dracula mean Beethovenian-brows mean Miles Davis mean Don’t-offer-assistance-when Quicksand-i ...
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Old Joke By Alan R. Shapiro - Giggle Poems
Radiant child of Leto, farworking Lord Apollo, with lyre in hand and golden plectrum, you sang to the gods on Mount Olympus almost as soon as you were ...
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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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“It's raining, it's pouring ... ” By Mother Goose - Giggle Poems
It’s raining, it’s pouring, ??? The old man’s snoring. He got into bed ??? And bumped his head And couldn’t get up in the morning.
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A Happy Childhood By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
I rise into adult air like a hollyhock, I’m so proud to be loved like this. Often I sing to myself all day like a fieldful of August insects, just thi ...
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In Golden Gate Park That Day . . . By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
In Golden Gate Park that day ???????????????????????????a man and his wife were coming along??? ?????????thru the enormous meadow ???????????????????? ...
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Self-Portrait By Robert Creeley - Giggle Poems
He wants to be a brutal old man, an aggressive old man, as dull, as brutal as the emptiness around him, He doesn’t want compromise, nor to be ever nic ...
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Vandergast and the Girl By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
Vandergast to his neighbors— the grinding of a garage door and hiss of gravel in the driveway. From his desk he had a view of the street— translucent ...
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The Wheel Revolves By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
Two and two violet green swallows Play over the lake. The blue birds have come back To nest on the little island. The swallows sip water on the wing A ...
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April Inventory By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
In one whole year I haven’t learned A blessed thing they pay you for. The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradual ...
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The End of an Ethnic Dream By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
I've grown intellectual, go on accumulating furniture and books, damning literature, writing “for myself,” calculating the possibilities that someone ...
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At Darien Bridge By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
Recalling the chains of their feet, I stand and look out over grasses At the bridge they built, long abandoned, Breaking down into water at last, And ...
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Buckdancer’s Choice By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
So I would hear out those lungs,??? The air split into nine levels, Some gift of tongues of the whistler In the invalid’s bed: my mother,??? Warbling ...
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Scree By Alan R. Shapiro - Giggle Poems
Long scree of pill bottles ?????????spilling over the tipped brim of the wicker basket, fifty or more, ?????????a hundred, your name on every one and ...
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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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Young Woman By Howard Nemerov - Giggle Poems
Naked before the glass she said,??? “I see my body as no man has,??? Nor any shall unless I wed And naked in a stranger’s house??? Stand timid beside ...
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The Foggy, Foggy Blue By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
I’d gladly gladly stop if I only only knew A better way to keep from lying, And not get nervous and blue When I said something quite untrue: I looked ...
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Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
(... that time is the fire in which we burn.) (This is the school in which we learn ...) What is the self amid this blaze? What am I now that I was th ...
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In the Basement of the Goodwill Store By Ted Kooser - Giggle Poems
In musty light, in the thin brown air of damp carpet, doll heads and rust, beneath long rows of sharp footfalls like nails in a lid, an old man stands ...
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Lines to My Father By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
The many sow, but only the chosen reap; Happy the wretched host if Day be brief, That with the cool oblivion of sleep A dawnless Night may soothe the ...
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Bears at Raspberry Time By Hayden Carruth - Giggle Poems
Three bears are not fear, mother and cubs come berrying in our neighborhood like any other family. Some idiot will shoot the bears soon, it always hap ...
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Memory As a Hearing Aid By Tony Hoagland - Giggle Poems
I’m here to tell you that they were, and many of us did, despite ourselves, though the road from there to here is paved with dead brain cells, parents ...
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