Debridement By Michael S. Harper - Giggle Poems
We saw no action, eleven months twenty-two days in our old tank burning sixty feet away: I watch them burn inside out: hoisting through heavy crossfir ...
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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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I Dreamed That in a City Dark as Paris By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
I dreamed that in a city dark as Paris I stood alone in a deserted square. My confrere In whose thick boots I stood, were you amazed To wander through ...
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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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Aside By Karl Shapiro - Giggle Poems
O demobilized for a moment, a world is made human, Returns to a time that is neither the present or then, But a garland of clippings and wishes of who ...
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Troop Train By Karl Shapiro - Giggle Poems
Diamonds and hearts are red but spades are black, And spades are spades and clubs are clovers—black. Trains lead to ships and ships to death or trains ...
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Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond By Galway Kinnell - Giggle Poems
3 And by paddies in Asia bones wearing a few shadows walk down a dirt road, smashed bloodsuckers on their heel, knowing flesh thrown down in the sunsh ...
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The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War By James Doyle - Giggle Poems
marches in uniform down the traffic stripe at the center of the street, counts time to the unseen web that has rearranged the air around him, his left ...
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