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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Prodigy By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
A retired professor of astronomy taught me how to play. In chess, too, the professor told me, the masters play blindfolded, the great ones on several ...
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Sather Tower Mystery By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
Seems there was this Professor a member of what should be called The Good German Department Must have signed his name to 5,000 petitions in front of ...
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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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Badman of the Guest Professor By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
i u worry me whoever u are i know u didnt want me to come here but here i am just d same; hi-jacking yr stagecoach, hauling in yr pocket watches & mak ...
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I Love to Do My Homework By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
I love to do my homework, It makes me feel so good. I love to do exactly As my teacher says I should. I love to do my homework, I never miss a day. I ...
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A Student’s Prayer By Anonymous - Giggle Poems
Now I lay me down to rest, I pray I pass tomorrow’s test. If I should die before I wake, That’s one less test I’ll have to take.
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St. Peter Claver By Toi Derricotte - Giggle Poems
Miss Maturin made us fold our towels in a regulation square and nap on army cots. In blue pleated skirts, pants, and white shirts, we stood in line to ...
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For Elizabeth Bishop By Sandra McPherson - Giggle Poems
—All are Broken now like her globe, but she remembers Them as I recall the black madonna Facing you across the room so that In a way you had the dark ...
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Vitamins and Roughage By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
Strong ankled, sun burned, almost naked, The daughters of California??? Educate reluctant humanists; Drive into their skulls with tennis balls The unh ...
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The Poet Ridiculed by Hysterical Academics By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
First, please, would you be so kind As to define your contribution To modern verse, the Western mind And human institutions? Where, where is the long, ...
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The Campus on the Hill By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
Up the reputable walks of old established trees They stalk, children of the nouveaux riches; chimes Of the tall Clock Tower drench their heads in bles ...
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April Inventory By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
In one whole year I haven’t learned A blessed thing they pay you for. The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradual ...
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Humanities Lecture By William E. Stafford - Giggle Poems
Many thinkers today, who stand low and grin, have little use for anger or power, its palace or its prison— but quite a bit for that little man with ey ...
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Accountability By William E. Stafford - Giggle Poems
Cold nights outside the taverns in Wyoming pickups and big semis lounge idling, letting their??? haunches twitch now and then in gusts of powder snow, ...
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Ave Maria By Frank O’Hara - Giggle Poems
Mothers of America ???????????????????????????????????? let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won’t know what you’re up to ...
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Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day By Delmore Schwartz - Giggle Poems
(... that time is the fire in which we burn.) (This is the school in which we learn ...) What is the self amid this blaze? What am I now that I was th ...
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The Erotic Philosophers By Carolyn Kizer - Giggle Poems
It’s a spring morning; sun pours in the window As I sit here drinking coffee, reading Augustine. and S?ren had much in common Including fear and tremb ...
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