The Alfresco Moment (Russell Edson Poem)
A butler asks, will Madam be having her morning coffee alfresco? If you would be so good as to lift ...
A butler asks, will Madam be having her morning coffee alfresco? If you would be so good as to lift ...
There was once a woman whose father over the years had become an ox. She would hear him alone at ...
They let me in. I went right up to the nursery and climbed into the crib, and assumed the famous ...
This is the house of the closet-man. There are no rooms, just hallways and closets. Things happen in rooms. He ...
In a back room a man is performing an autopsy on an old raincoat. His wife appears in the doorway ...
There was once a hog theater where hogs performed as men, had men been hogs. One hog said, I will ...
The big one went to sleep as to die and dreamed he became a tiny one. So tiny as to ...
A man is bending his wife. He is bending her around something that she has bent herself around. She is ...
A pianist dreams that he's hired by a wrecking company to ruin a piano with his fingers . . . ...
The floor is something we must fight against. Whilst seemingly mere platform for the human stance, it is that place ...
A man had just delivered a toad from his wife's armpit. He held it by its legs and spanked it. ...
A father with a huge eraser erases his daughter. When he finishes there's only a red smudge on the wall. ...
A lighted window floats through the night like a piece of paper in the wind. I want to see into ...
A man is a rock in a garden of chairs and waits for a longtime to be over. It is ...
There was a road that leads him to go to find a certain time where he sits. Smokes quietly in ...
A huge shoe mounts up from the horizon, squealing and grinding forward on small wheels, even as a man sitting ...
A woman prepared a mouse for her husband's dinner, roasting it with a blueberry in its mouth. At table he ...
In his travels he comes to a bridge made entirely of bones. Before crossing he writes a letter to his ...
A toy-maker made a toy wife and a toy child. He made a toy house and some toy years. He ...
There was once a man who disguised himself as a housefly and went about the neighborhood depositing flyspecks. Well, he ...
How I make my soup: I draw water from a tap . . . I am not an artist. And ...
Here I am with my mother, hanging under the molt of years, in a garden of umbrellas and rubber boots, ...
Some coffee had gotten on a man's ape. The man said, animal did you get on my coffee? No no, ...
Since the fern can't go to the sink for a drink of water, I graciously submit myself to the task, ...
Mr Brain was a hermit dwarf who liked to eat shellfish off the moon. He liked to go into a ...
Up in a dirty window in a dark room is a star which an old man can see. He looks ...
There was a man who would marry his mother, and asked his father for his mother's hand in marriage, and ...
They have grafted pieces of an ape with a dog. . . Then, what they have, wants to live in ...
I think, therefore I am, said a man whose mother quickly hit him on the head, saying, I hit my ...
A man had a son who was an anvil. And then sometimes he was an automobile tire. I do wish ...
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