A Happy Childhood (William Matthews Poems)
My mother stands at the screen door, laughing."Out out damn Spot," she commands our silly dog.I wonder what this means. ...
William Matthews Poems (19 Poems)
A Walk (William Matthews Poems)
February on the narrow beach, 3oA.M. I set out south. Cape Cod Lighton its crumbling cliff above me turnsits wand ...
A Small Room In Aspen (William Matthews Poems)
Stains on the casements,dustmotes, spiderless webs.No chairs, and a man waking up,or he's falling asleepMany first novels beginwith the hero ...
Foul Shots: A Clinic (William Matthews Poems)
for Paul Levitt Be perpendicular to the basket,toes avid for the line.Already this descriptionis perilously abstract: the balland basket are ...
A Roadside Near Ithaca (William Matthews Poems)
Here we picked wild strawberries,though in my memory we're neither herenor missing. Or I'd scuff outby myself at dusk, proudto ...
Eyes (William Matthews Poems)
the only parts of the body the samesize at birth as they'll always be.'That's why all babies are beautiful,'Thurber used ...
A Life Of Crime (William Matthews Poems)
Frail friends, I love you all!Maybe that's the trouble,storm in the eye of a storm.Everyone wants too much.Instead we gratefully ...
Bedtime (William Matthews Poems)
Usually I stay up late, my timealone. Tonight at 9o I can tellI'm only awake long enoughto put my sons ...
Alcide (William Matthews Poems)
Walking with Jesus the slow,behind the beat. Mr. Resistance.Mr. Ohm, Mr. Exactly Lame.By some reluctance, somerestraint, if it be a ...
Dire Cure (William Matthews Poems)
"First, do no harm," the Hippocratic Oath begins, but before she might enjoy such balm, the docs had to harm ...
Misgivings (William Matthews Poems)
"Perhaps you'll tire of me," muses my love, although she's like a great city to me, or a park that ...
Mingus At The Showplace (William Matthews Poems)
I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen and so I swung into action and wrote a poem and ...
On The Porch At The Frost Place, Franconia, N. H. (William Matthews Poems)
So here the great man stood, fermenting malice and poems we have to be nearly as fierce against ourselves as ...
Job Interview (William Matthews Poems)
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life? DON JUAN, III, 63-4 ...
Homer’s Seeing-Eye Dog (William Matthews Poems)
Most of the time he worked, a sort of sleep with a purpose, so far as I could tell. How ...
The Blues (William Matthews Poems)
What did I think, a storm clutching a clarinet and boarding a downtown bus, headed for lessons? I had pieces ...
Poem (The lump of coal my parents teased) (William Matthews Poems)
The lump of coal my parents teased I'd find in my Christmas stocking turned out each year to be an ...
A Poetry Reading At West Point (William Matthews Poems)
I read to the entire plebe class, in two batches. Twice the hall filled with bodies dressed alike, each toting ...
No Return (William Matthews Poems)
I like divorce. I love to compose letters of resignation; now and then I send one in and leave in ...