A Fixed Idea By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
What torture lurks within a single thought When grown too constant; and however kind, However welcome still, the weary mind Aches with its presence.
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Chattanooga By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
1 Some say that Chattanooga is the Old name for Lookout Mountain To others it is an uncouth name Used only by the uncivilised Our a-historical period ...
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Queens Cemetery, Setting Sun By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
Airport bus from JFK cruising through Queens passing huge endless cemetery??? by Long Island’s old expressway (once a dirt path for wheelless Indians) ...
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I Genitori Perduti By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
The dove-white gulls on the wet lawn in Washington Square??? in the early morning fog each a little ghost in the gloaming Souls transmigrated maybe fr ...
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Proust’s Madeleine By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
I can Hear him coming home drunk From the Elks’ Club in Elkhart Indiana, bumping the Chairs in the dark.
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Heart’s Needle By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
1 Child of my winter, born When the new fallen soldiers froze In Asia’s steep ravines and fouled the snows, When I was torn By love I could not still, ...
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Report to Crazy Horse By William E. Stafford - Giggle Poems
Crazy Horse, it is not fair to hide a new vision from you. A teacher here says hurt or scorned people are places where real enemies hide. And I will t ...
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One Home By William E. Stafford - Giggle Poems
To anyone who looked at us we said, “My friend”; liking the cut of a thought, we could say “Hello.” (But plain black hats rode the thoughts that made ...
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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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In the Tree House at Night By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
The needles and pine cones about me Are full of small birds at their roundest, Their fists without mercy gripping Hard down through the tree to the ro ...
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Buckdancer’s Choice By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
So I would hear out those lungs,??? The air split into nine levels, Some gift of tongues of the whistler In the invalid’s bed: my mother,??? Warbling ...
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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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Depression Glass By Ted Kooser - Giggle Poems
It seemed those rose-pink dishes??? she kept for special company??? were always cold, brought down??? from the shelf in jingling stacks,??? the plates ...
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Memory As a Hearing Aid By Tony Hoagland - Giggle Poems
I’m here to tell you that they were, and many of us did, despite ourselves, though the road from there to here is paved with dead brain cells, parents ...
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Movement Song By Audre Lorde - Giggle Poems
I have studied the tight curls on the back of your neck??? moving away from me beyond anger or failure your face in the evening schools of longing thr ...
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A Time Past By Denise Levertov - Giggle Poems
The old wooden steps to the front door where I was sitting that fall morning when you came downstairs, just awake, and my joy at sight of you (emergin ...
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Partial Resemblance By Denise Levertov - Giggle Poems
A doll's hair concealing??? an eggshell skull delicately??? throbbing, within which maggots in voluptuous unrest??? jostle and shrug. Oh, Eileen, my?? ...
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New Year’s Day By Kim Addonizio - Giggle Poems
Big-boned and shy, they are like girls I remember from junior high, who never spoke, who kept their heads lowered and their arms crossed against their ...
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