For C. By Richard Wilbur - Giggle Poems
After the clash of elevator gates And the long sinking, she emerges where, A slight thing in the morning’s crosstown glare, She looks up toward the wi ...
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Ancestral By Archibald MacLeish - Giggle Poems
The star dissolved in evening—the one star The silently and night O soon now, soon And still the light now and still now the large Relinquishing and t ...
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Fireflies in the Garden By Robert Frost - Giggle Poems
Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come emulating flies, That though they never equal stars in size, (And they were never ...
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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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Toward an Organic Philosophy By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
I get up and walk off in the moonlight and each time I look back the red is deeper and the light smaller. Scorpio rises late with Mars caught in his c ...
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Laws of the Universe By Albert Goldbarth - Giggle Poems
The renewal project is doomed: because its funding board’s vice-president resigned: because the acids of divorce were eating day-long at her stomach, ...
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Benjamin Banneker Sends His “Almanac” to Thomas Jefferson By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
I, who know so little of stars, whose only acquaintance with the moon is to read a myth, or to listen to the surge of songs the women know, sit in you ...
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Benjamin Banneker Helps to Build a City By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
These others stand with you, squinting the city into place, yet cannot see what you see, what you would see —a vision of these paths, laid out like a ...
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Astronomy Lesson By Alan R. Shapiro - Giggle Poems
The older boy is saying that no matter how many stars you counted there were always more stars beyond them and beyond the stars black space going on f ...
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The Stars and the Moon By Grace Schulman - Giggle Poems
Scaling ladders with buckets of white enamel, I painted the stars and the moon on my windowpanes to hold back days and nights.
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I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You By Hayden Carruth - Giggle Poems
We move our feet crunching bitter snow while the storm crashes like god-wars down the east we shake the sparks from our eyes we quiver inside our shoc ...
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