Graciela By Gary Soto - Giggle Poems
However in the seventh month With child, her belly Rising like a portion of the sun, Something knotted inside her. Manuel summoned the Partera And tho ...
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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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The Taxi By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you against the jutted stars And shout into the ridges of the wind. ...
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In a Garden By Amy Lowell - Giggle Poems
Gushing from the mouths of stone men To spread at ease under the sky In granite-lipped basins, Where iris dabble their feet And rustle to a passing wi ...
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Morningside Heights, July By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
A man and a woman on a bench: she tells him he must be psychic, for how else could he sense, even before she knew, that she’d need to call it off? A b ...
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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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The Pool By Robert Creeley - Giggle Poems
My embarrassment at his nakedness,??? at the pool’s edge, and my wife, with his, standing, watching— this was a freedom??? not given me who am??? mor ...
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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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Sway By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
Everyone at Lake Kearney had a nickname: there was a Bumstead, a Tonto, a Tex, and, from the slogan of a popular orchestra, two sisters, Swing and Swa ...
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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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Monet: “Les Nymphéas” By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
O world half-known through opening, twilit lids Before the vague face clenches into light; O universal waters like a cloud, Like those first clouds of ...
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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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Her Life Runs Like a Red Silk Flag By Bruce Weigl - Giggle Poems
On a blue plate her mother brought us cake and smiled her betel-black teeth at me but I did not feel strange in the house my country had tried to bomb ...
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The Lake in Central Park By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
When the day lowers its vermilion tapestry over the west ridge, the water has the sound of leaves shaken in a sack, and the child's voice that you hav ...
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The Healing Improvisation of Hair By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
I used to lean in the doorway and watch my stony woman wind the copper through the black, and play with my understanding, show me she cóuld take a cup ...
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from Epigrams: A Journal, #20 By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
After some years Bohemian came to this— This Maenad with hair down and gaping kiss Wild on the barren edge of under fifty. She would finance his art i ...
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Ars Amoris By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
That manic force When wits depart Forbids remorse.
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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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Cherrylog Road By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
She was tapping like code, Loosening the screws, Carrying off headlights, Sparkplugs, bumpers, Cracked mirrors and gear-knobs, Getting ready, already, ...
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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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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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