The Ship Pounding By Donald Hall - Giggle Poems
Each morning I made my way among gangways, elevators, and nurses’ pods to Jane’s room to interrogate the grave helpers who tended her through the nigh ...
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Past-Lives Therapy By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
They explained to me the bloody bandages On the floor in the maternity ward in Rochester, N.Y., Cured the backache I acquired bowing to my old master, ...
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Eyes Fastened with Pins By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
Death, Meanwhile, in a strange Part of town looking for Someone with a bad cough, But the address is somehow wrong, Even death can’t figure it out Amo ...
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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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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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Eyes: By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
“That’s why all babies are beautiful,” Thurber used to say as he grew blind—not dark, he’d go on to explain, but floating in a pale light always, a ki ...
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Clan Meeting: Births and Nations: A Blood Song By Michael S. Harper - Giggle Poems
We reconstruct lives in the intensive care unit, pieced together in a buffet dinner: two widows with cancerous breasts in their balled hands; a 30-yea ...
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Dear John, Dear Coltrane By Michael S. Harper - Giggle Poems
You pick up the horn with some will and blow into the freezing night: a love supreme, a love supreme— Dawn comes and you cook up the thick sin 'tween ...
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Bess By William E. Stafford - Giggle Poems
At her job in the library she arranged better and better flowers, and when students asked for books her hand went out to help. She straightened its fl ...
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The Last Scene By Alan R. Shapiro - Giggle Poems
Extravagant sweep of clear sky darkening in the big picture window beside the bed, lights here and there already flashing all across the city down bel ...
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The Hospital Window By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
Higher and higher he lies Above me in a blue light Shed by a tinted window. I know that my father is there, In the shape of his death still living. He ...
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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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Covenant By Alan R. Shapiro - Giggle Poems
The oldest sister, her two hands on the table, about to push herself up, stares with grim determination at the affronting dishes, waiting, it seems, u ...
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Burning By Galway Kinnell - Giggle Poems
He lives, who last night flopped from a log Into the creek, and all night by an ankle Lay pinned to the flood, dead as a nail But for the skin of the ...
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Lines to Accompany Flowers for Eve By Carolyn Kizer - Giggle Poems
The florist was told, cyclamen or azalea; White in either case, for you are pale As they are, “blooming early and profusely” Though the azalea grows i ...
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Through a Glass Eye, Lightly By Carolyn Kizer - Giggle Poems
In the laboratory waiting room containing one television actor with a teary face trying a contact lens; two muscular victims of industrial accidents; ...
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In Celebration of My Uterus By Anne Sexton - Giggle Poems
You are singing like a school girl. Sweet weight, in celebration of the woman I am and of the soul of the woman I am and of the central creature and i ...
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Music Swims Back to Me By Anne Sexton - Giggle Poems
La la la, Oh music swims back to me and I can feel the tune they played the night they left me in this private institution on a hill. Music pours over ...
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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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