Ox Cart Man By Donald Hall - Giggle Poems
When the cart is sold he sells the ox, harness and yoke, and walks home, his pockets heavy with the year’s coin for salt and taxes, and at home by fir ...
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How Things Work By Gary Soto - Giggle Poems
The tip I left For the waitress filters down Like rain, wetting the new roots of a child Perhaps, a belligerent cat that won’t let go Of a balled sock ...
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The Elements of San Joaquin By Gary Soto - Giggle Poems
Field The wind sprays pale dirt into my mouth The small, almost invisible scars On my hands. Wind A dry wind over the valley Peeled mountains, grain b ...
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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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Don't Worry if Your Job Is Small By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
Don't worry if your job is small, And your rewards are few. Remember that the mighty oak, Was once a nut like you.
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“A bridge engineer, Mr. Crumpett ...” By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
A bridge engineer, Mr. Crumpett, Built a bridge for the good River Bumpett. ??? A mistake in the plan ??? Left a gap in the span, But he said, “Well, ...
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Autobiography By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
I am leading a quiet life in Mike’s Place every day watching the champs of the Dante Billiard Parlor and the French pinball addicts. I am leading a qu ...
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Resigning from a Job in a Defense Industry By Sandra McPherson - Giggle Poems
I ran on them like a component: Henries, microhenries, Blue Beavers, wee wee ductors: Biographer of small lives, Of a plug and his girl named Jack, Of ...
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Peddler By Sandra McPherson - Giggle Poems
He looked poor but you acted needle-poor Where I’d have said, I don’t need ...
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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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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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Manufacturing By Alan R. Shapiro - Giggle Poems
My father and uncle talking over all the goods to be received that day, the goods delivered, their two reflections in the window floating like blurry ...
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Torque By David Rivard - Giggle Poems
Having dozed off in that hideout he fixed between five four-by-six cardboard storage cartons while the rest of us pack Mediterranean Dreams and Coloni ...
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Neighbors in October By David Baker - Giggle Poems
All afternoon his tractor pulls a flat wagon with bales to the barn, then back to the waiting chopped field.
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