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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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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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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The Gift By Li-Young Lee - Giggle Poems
To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I was seven when my father took my hand like this, and I did not hol ...
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Penumbra By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
As I sit here in the quiet Summer night, Suddenly, from the distant road, there comes The grind and rush of an electric car. Sitting here in the Summe ...
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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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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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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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A Marriage By Robert Creeley - Giggle Poems
The first retainer??? he gave to her??? was a golden wedding ring. The second—late at night??? he woke up, leaned over on an elbow,??? and kissed her ...
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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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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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Song By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
Observe the cautious toadstools still on the lawn today though they grow over-evening; sun shrinks them away.
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A Locked House By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
From the farm Next door, our neighbors saw no harm Came to the things we cared for here. Maybe I should have thought: all Such things rot, fall— Barns ...
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Mementos, 1 By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
I stopped there cold, Like a man raking piles of dead leaves in his yard Who has turned up a severed hand. Then through the war and those two long yea ...
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Love for a Hand By Karl Shapiro - Giggle Poems
Soft are the beasts of light But softer still her hand that drifts so white Upon the whiteness.
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Song of Napalm By Bruce Weigl - Giggle Poems
The grass was never more blue in that light, more Scarlet; beyond the pasture Trees scraped their voices into the wind, branches Crisscrossed the sky ...
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Boleros 14 By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
Night enters the Plaza, step by step, in the singular flaring of lamps on churro carts, taco stands, benches set with deep bowls of pozole, on rugs em ...
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The Metaphysical Amorist By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
But in this shadowy lower life I sleep with a terrestrial wife And earthy children I beget. Now, in the heavenly other place Love is in the eternal mi ...
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Choice By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
Allegiance is assigned Forever when the mind Chooses and stamps the will. Thus, I must love you still Through good and ill. But though we cannot part ...
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At Darien Bridge By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
Recalling the chains of their feet, I stand and look out over grasses At the bridge they built, long abandoned, Breaking down into water at last, And ...
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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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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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