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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Patterns By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
I walk down the garden paths, And all the daffodils Are blowing, and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden paths In my stiff, broc ...
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A Fixed Idea By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
What torture lurks within a single thought When grown too constant; and however kind, However welcome still, the weary mind Aches with its presence.
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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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The Rain By Robert Creeley - Giggle Poems
All night the sound had come back again, and again falls this quiet, persistent rain.
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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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from The Laurel Tree By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
And at night, quivering with tears, You are like the tree called Tasso’s. When the lovers prop their bicycles And sit on the high benches That look ac ...
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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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Sway By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
Everyone at Lake Kearney had a nickname: there was a Bumstead, a Tonto, a Tex, and, from the slogan of a popular orchestra, two sisters, Swing and Swa ...
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The Man Who Married Magdalene By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
Her hands were hollow, pale, and blue, Her mouth like watered wine.
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Carentan O Carentan By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
Trees in the old days used to stand And shape a shady lane Where lovers wandered hand in hand Who came from Carentan. This was the shining green canal ...
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Sunday: New Guinea By Karl Shapiro - Giggle Poems
The bugle sounds the measured call to prayers, The band starts bravely with a clarion hymn, From every side, singly, in groups, in pairs, Each to his ...
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The Lake in Central Park By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
When the day lowers its vermilion tapestry over the west ridge, the water has the sound of leaves shaken in a sack, and the child's voice that you hav ...
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The Healing Improvisation of Hair By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
I used to lean in the doorway and watch my stony woman wind the copper through the black, and play with my understanding, show me she cóuld take a cup ...
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The Sheep Child By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
Farm boys wild to couple With anything with soft-wooded trees With mounds of earth mounds Of pinestraw will keep themselves off Animals by legends of ...
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To My Wife By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
And does the heart grow old? You know In the indiscriminate green Of summer or in earliest snow A landscape is another scene, Inchoate and anonymous, ...
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Movement Song By Audre Lorde - Giggle Poems
I have studied the tight curls on the back of your neck??? moving away from me beyond anger or failure your face in the evening schools of longing thr ...
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Clouds By Denise Levertov - Giggle Poems
But I forced to mind my vision of a sky close and enclosed, unlike the space in which these clouds move— a sky of gray mist it appeared— and how looki ...
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