For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
August First: it was a year ago we drove down from St.-Guilhem-le-Désert to open the house in St. Guiraud rented ...
August First: it was a year ago we drove down from St.-Guilhem-le-Désert to open the house in St. Guiraud rented ...
stylised tulips - this is what the card says and they have that nineteen-twenties' feel of those bright young things ...
In nineteen hundred forty-nine China was won by Mao Tse-tung Chiang Kai-shek's army ran away They were waiting there in ...
To Ezra Pound These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand ...
"Soyez muette pour moi, Idole contemplative..." I came home and found a lion in my living room Rushed out on ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
A prayer on Epiphany the dawning of the decade a new revelation of Christ as we walk each day Seeking ...
Mindful, thinking the advent of the decade more than just the turning of the year Taking stock, silently thinking that ...
New sight, new eyes these we long for in the changing of the decade in the day of epiphany To ...
Clenched knuckles On my steering wheel A red light above me A black pickup - A wall before me No ...
A Decade, double digits and all of that Today is her birthday so give a cheer for the divine Miss ...
for Allen Here, on the farthest point of the peninsula The winter storm Off the Atlantic shook the schoolhouse. Mrs. ...
Joy to have merited the Pain -- To merit the Release -- Joy to have perished every step -- To ...
I've dropped my Brain -- My Soul is numb -- The Veins that used to run Stop palsied -- 'tis ...
A little Snow was here and there Disseminated in her Hair -- Since she and I had met and played ...
What is it about Bryan Adams and his song 'Summer of 69'? Why do the lyrics linger? Was it 90° ...
Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day, the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up the scree-slope of what at high tide will ...
Remember the 1340's? We were doing a dance called the Catapult. You always wore brown, the color craze of the ...
I met a juniorâ?"not so juniorâ?"and a-many others, who knew 'him' or 'them' long ago, slightly, whom I know. It ...
Welcome, grinned Henry, welcome, fifty-one! I never cared for fifty, when nothing got done. The hospitals were fun in certain ...
The construction of a woman: a woman is not made of flesh of bone and sinew belly and breasts, elbows ...
A heap of wheat, says the Song of Songs but I've never seen wheat in a pile. Apples, potatoes, cabbages, ...
I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it---- A sort of walking miracle, my skin ...
"Vocat aestus in umbram" Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'élection de son sépulchre For three years, out of ...
To my ninth decade I have tottered on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who ...
each day mowed and mowed his lawn, his dry quarter acre, the machine slicing a wisp from each blade's tip. ...
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