Philosophia Perennis By Anne Waldman - Giggle Poems
I turned: quivering yellow stars in blackness??? I wept: how speech may save a woman The picture changes & promises the heroine??? That nighttime & me ...
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Giant Night By Anne Waldman - Giggle Poems
I wonder Then realize I’m not the only person who’s considered in the grand scope of daily living There are those fast asleep who want to be and would ...
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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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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost - Giggle Poems
My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.
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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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Sometime During Eternity . . . By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
Sometime during eternity ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? some guys show up??? and one of them ????????????????????? who shows u ...
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For No Clear Reason By Robert Creeley - Giggle Poems
I dreamt last night the fright was over, that the dust came, and then water,??? and women and men, together??? again, and all was quiet in the dim moo ...
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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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“After Experience Taught Me ...” By W. D. Snodgrass - Giggle Poems
After experience taught me that all the ordinary Surroundings of social life are futile and vain; I’m going to show you something very Ugly: someday, ...
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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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Traveling through the Dark By William E. Stafford - Giggle Poems
Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson River road.
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Meta-A and the A of Absolutes By Jay Wright - Giggle Poems
Blind men, on bourbon, with guitars, blind men with their scars dulled by kola, blind men seeking the shelter of a raindrop, blind men in corn, blind ...
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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 Strength of Fields By James L. Dickey - Giggle Poems
Men are not where he is Exactly now, but they are around him around him like the strength Of fields. Dear Lord of all the fields what am I going to do ...
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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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American Solitude By Grace Schulman - Giggle Poems
Hopper never painted this, but here on a snaky path his vision lingers: three white tombs, robots with glassed-in faces and meters for eyes, grim mout ...
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A Step Away from Them By Frank O’Hara - Giggle Poems
It’s my lunch hour, so I go for a walk among the hum-colored cabs. First, down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening torsos sandwich ...
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Not Guilty By David Rivard - Giggle Poems
The days are dog-eared, the edges torn, ragged—like those pages I ripped once out of library books, for their photos of Vallejo and bootless Robert Jo ...
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