Bailing Out-A Poem for the 1970s By Eleanor Wilner - Giggle Poems
The trees had trapped the flimsy fabric in their web—everywhere the harnessed bodies hung—helpless, treading air like water.
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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 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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On A Diet By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
Something like the body of the poet’s work, with its pale shadows, begins to pare and replace the poet’s body, and isn’t it time?
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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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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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I Know a Man By Robert Creeley - Giggle Poems
As I sd to my??? friend, because I am??? always talking,—John, I sd, which was not his??? name, the darkness sur- rounds us, what can we do against ...
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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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Humanities Lecture By William E. Stafford - Giggle Poems
Many thinkers today, who stand low and grin, have little use for anger or power, its palace or its prison— but quite a bit for that little man with ey ...
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After Arguing against the Contention That Art Must Come from Discontent By William E. Stafford - Giggle Poems
I scramble by luck into a little pocket out of the wind and begin to beat on the stones with my scratched numb hands, rocking back and forth in silent ...
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The Intellectual By Karl Shapiro - Giggle Poems
He talks to overhear, she to withdraw To some interior feminine fireside Where the back arches, beauty puts forth a paw Like a black puma stretching i ...
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from Epigrams: A Journal, #8 By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
If wisdom, as it seems it is, Be the recovery of some bliss From the conditions of disaster— Terror the servant, man the master— It does not follow we ...
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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 Seekonk Woods By Galway Kinnell - Giggle Poems
I thought my stride one day would reach every other and from then on I would walk in time with the way toward that Lobachevskian haze up ahead where t ...
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Question for the Bride By David Rivard - Giggle Poems
Now that everything seems so persuasive??? you will go on changing??????as always??? it has always been the case with you??? whether you knew it or no ...
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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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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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Thoughts in a Zoo By Countee Cullen - Giggle Poems
They in their cruel traps, and we in ours, Survey each other’s rage, and pass the hours Commiserating each the other’s woe, To mitigate his own pain’s ...
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Another Feeling By Ruth Stone - Giggle Poems
One of them pulling his body by the front feet, the hind legs dragging flat. Years later, you remember his misfit body scrambling to reach the others.
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