Big Hair (David Lehman Poems)
Ithaca, October 1993: Jorie went on a lingerie tear, wanting to look like a moll in a Chandler novel. Dinner, ...
David Lehman Poems (58 Poems)
To The Author Of Glare (David Lehman Poems)
There comes a time when the story turns into twenty different stories and soon after that he academy of shadows ...
One Size Fits All: A Critical Essay (David Lehman Poems)
Though Already Perhaps However. On one level, Among other things, With And with. In a similar vein To be sure: ...
March 1 (David Lehman Poems)
I could stare for hours at her, the woman stepping out of her bath, breasts bare, towel around her waist, ...
The Difference Between Pepsi And Coke (David Lehman Poems)
Can't swim; uses credit cards and pills to combat intolerable feelings of inadequacy; Won't admit his dread of boredom, chief ...
February 23 (David Lehman Poems)
Light rain is falling in Central Park but not on Upper Fifth Avenue or Central Park West where sun and ...
June 11 (David Lehman Poems)
It's my birtday I've got an empty stomach and the desire to be lazy in the hammock and maybe go ...
May 8 (David Lehman Poems)
700 francs will get you $109.91 on this muggy May afternoon which is good to know since I just found ...
The Gift (David Lehman Poems)
"He gave her class. She gave him sex." -- Katharine Hepburn on Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers He gave her ...
To William Holden (David Lehman Poems)
(July 15) We know who the guards are in those POW movies with brutal but easy to fool fat Germans ...
January 31 (The sky is crumbling…) (David Lehman Poems)
The sky is crumbling into millions of paper dots the wind blows in my face so I duck into my ...
June 6 (David Lehman Poems)
No two are identical though they begin from the same point in time the same point in the dream when ...
April 19 (David Lehman Poems)
We have too much exhibitionism and not enough voyeurism in poetry we have plenty of bass and not enough treble, ...
A Quick One Before I Go (David Lehman Poems)
There comes a time in every man's life when he thinks: I have never had a single original thought in ...
The Left Bank (David Lehman Poems)
Don't walk away, Renee, I'm just getting warmed up your body is like a river and I'm going to swim ...
September 22 (David Lehman Poems)
It's the day of the ram and the head of the year Rosh Ha'Shanah at services I sat next to ...
PC (David Lehman Poems)
for Aaron Fogel Politically-correct personal computers point and click. President Clinton (codename Peacock) can't protect crack pushing Communist Party cops ...
July 12 (David Lehman Poems)
Wisteria, hysteria is as obvious a rhyme as Viagra and Niagara there must be a reason honeymooners traditionally went to ...
Operation Memory (David Lehman Poems)
We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Operation Memory was announced. To his separate bed Each soldier went, ...
December 14 (David Lehman Poems)
This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere, The tarnished, gaudy, wonderful old work Of hand, of foot, of ...
November 6 (David Lehman Poems)
Remember when Khrushchev said "We will bury you!" on the cover of Time I thought he was employing a metaphor ...
Twelfth Night (David Lehman Poems)
His first infidelity was a mistake, but not as big As her false pregnancy. Later, the boy found out He ...
April 24 (David Lehman Poems)
Did you know that Evian spelled backwards is naive? I myself was unaware of this fact until last Tuesday night ...
January 2 (David Lehman Poems)
The old war is over the new one has begun between drivers and pedestrians on a Friday in New York ...
October 16 (David Lehman Poems)
What can you say about the Mets down three games to none one run down with six outs to go ...
March 30 (David Lehman Poems)
Eighty-one degrees a record high for the day which is not my birthday but will do until the eleventh of ...
Shake The Superflux! (David Lehman Poems)
I like walking on streets as black and wet as this one now, at two in the solemnly musical morning, ...
January 3 (David Lehman Poems)
The shrink says, "Everything depends on how many stuffed animals you had as a boy," and my mother tells me ...
Sexism (David Lehman Poems)
The happiest moment in a woman's life Is when she hears the turn of her lover's key In the lock, ...
Eleventh Hour (David Lehman Poems)
The bloom was off the economic recovery. "I just want to know one thing," she said. What was that one ...