Happy As The Day Is Long (James Tate Poems)
I take the long walk up the staircase to my secret room. Today's big news: they found Amelia Earhart's shoe, ...
James Tate Poems (22 Poems)
The Wrong Way Home (James Tate Poems)
All night a door floated down the river. It tried to remember little incidents of pleasure from its former life, ...
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry (James Tate Poems)
There's a fortune to be made in just about everything in this country, somebody's father had to invent everything--baby food, ...
Thinking Ahead To Possible Options And A Worst-Case Scenario (James Tate Poems)
I swerved to avoid hitting a squirrel in the center of the road and that's when the deer came charging ...
Success Comes To Cow Creek (James Tate Poems)
I sit on the tracks, a hundred feet from earth, fifty from the water. Gerald is inching toward me as ...
The Definition of Gardening (James Tate Poems)
Jim just loves to garden, yes he does. He likes nothing better than to put on his little overalls and ...
Dream On (James Tate Poems)
Some people go their whole lives without ever writing a single poem. Extraordinary people who don't hesitate to cut somebody's ...
Non-Stop (James Tate Poems)
It seemed as if the enormous journey was finally approaching its conclusion. From the window of the train the last ...
A Knock On The Door (James Tate Poems)
They ask me if I've ever thought about the end of the world, and I say, "Come in, come in, ...
Like A Scarf (James Tate Poems)
The directions to the lunatic asylum were confusing, more likely they were the random associations and confused ramblings of a ...
Restless Leg Syndrome (James Tate Poems)
After the burial we returned to our units and assumed our poses. Our posture was the new posture and not ...
Head of a White Woman Winking (James Tate Poems)
She has one good bumblebee which she leads about town on a leash of clover. It's as big as a ...
Loyalty (James Tate Poems)
This is the hardest part: When I came back to life I was a good family dog and not too ...
The New Ergonomics (James Tate Poems)
The new ergonomics were delivered just before lunchtime so we ignored them. Without revealing the particulars let me just say ...
Goodtime Jesus (James Tate Poems)
Jesus got up one day a little later than usual. He had been dream- ing so deep there was nothing ...
More Later, Less The Same (James Tate Poems)
The common is unusually calm--they captured the storm last night, it's sleeping in the stockade, relieved of its duty, pacified, ...
Days of Pie and Coffee (James Tate Poems)
A motorist once said to me, and this was in the country, on a county lane, a motorist slowed his ...
My Felisberto (James Tate Poems)
My felisberto is handsomer than your mergotroid, although, admittedly, your mergotroid may be the wiser of the two. Whereas your ...
The List of Famous Hats (James Tate Poems)
Napoleon's hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famous hat, but that's not the hat I ...
Shut Up And Eat Your Toad (James Tate Poems)
The disorganization to which I currently belong has skipped several meetings in a row which is a pattern I find ...
Never Again The Same (James Tate Poems)
Speaking of sunsets, last night's was shocking. I mean, sunsets aren't supposed to frighten you, are they? Well, this one ...
The Lost Pilot (James Tate Poems)
for my father, 1922-1944 Your face did not rot like the others--the co-pilot, for example, I saw him yesterday. His ...