A Wicker Basket By Robert Creeley - Giggle Poems
Comes the time when it’s later and onto your table the headwaiter??? puts the bill, and very soon after rings out the sound of lively laughter— Picki ...
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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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Dear John, Dear Coltrane By Michael S. Harper - Giggle Poems
You pick up the horn with some will and blow into the freezing night: a love supreme, a love supreme— Dawn comes and you cook up the thick sin 'tween ...
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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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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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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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Unromantic Love By J. V. Cunningham - Giggle Poems
The love I could discover In these recesses knows no lover, Is the unreal, The undefined, unanalysed, Unabsolute many; It is antithesis of any, In non ...
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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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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 Goose Fish By Howard Nemerov - Giggle Poems
They hesitated at his smile, Wondering what it seemed to say To lovers who a little while Before had thought to understand, By violence upon the sand, ...
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The Brief Journey West By Howard Nemerov - Giggle Poems
The father’s skin is seamed and dry, the map Of that wild region where they drained the swamp And set provision out that they might sit, Of history th ...
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Happy Hour By Alan R. Shapiro - Giggle Poems
The tipped wine poised at the brim is the beginning of the bad girl she’ll promise never to be again tomorrow, who can taunt him now to prove he doesn ...
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After Making Love We Hear Footsteps By Galway Kinnell - Giggle Poems
For I can snore like a bullhorn or play loud music or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman and Fergus will only sink deeper into his drea ...
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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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If It Were Not for You By Hayden Carruth - Giggle Poems
Liebe, meine liebe, I had not hoped to be so poor ?????????????????? The night winds reach like the blind breath of the world in a rhythm without min ...
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Woman to Man By Ai - Giggle Poems
But open your mouth, I’ll give you a taste of black you won’t forget.
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Twenty-year Marriage By Ai - Giggle Poems
You keep me waiting in a truck with its one good wheel stuck in the ditch, while you piss against the south side of a tree.
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Clouds By Denise Levertov - Giggle Poems
But I forced to mind my vision of a sky close and enclosed, unlike the space in which these clouds move— a sky of gray mist it appeared— and how looki ...
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The Ache of Marriage By Denise Levertov - Giggle Poems
The ache of marriage: thigh and tongue, beloved,??? are heavy with it,??? it throbs in the teeth We look for communion and are turned away, beloved, ...
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First Kiss By Kim Addonizio - Giggle Poems
Afterwards you had that drunk, drugged look my daughter used to get, when she had let go of my nipple, her mouth gone slack and her eyes??? turned vag ...
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Onset By Kim Addonizio - Giggle Poems
Watching that frenzy of insects above the bush of white flowers,??? bush I see everywhere on hill after hill, all I can think of??? is how terrifying ...
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“What Do Women Want?” By Kim Addonizio - Giggle Poems
I want it flimsy and cheap, I want it too tight, I want to wear it until someone tears it off me. When I find it, I’ll pull that garment from its hang ...
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