Desesperanto (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
After Joseph Roth Parce que c'était lui; parce que c'était moi. Montaigne, De L'amitië The dream's forfeit was a night ...
After Joseph Roth Parce que c'était lui; parce que c'était moi. Montaigne, De L'amitië The dream's forfeit was a night ...
Cool black night thru redwoods cars parked outside in shade behind the gate, stars dim above the ravine, a fire ...
"Soyez muette pour moi, Idole contemplative..." I came home and found a lion in my living room Rushed out on ...
Unhappy, poopy, smelly diapers the baby bottle in the crib. Was she drooling or talking, mumbling something, crawling in place. ...
The row of toothbrushes their heads, like the Porch of the Maidens that image of their marvel, seen so long ...
In the early morning dewlight the stealth of her design the intricate lattice revealed. Ribbons concentric ovals rays, lines radiating ...
A happy, loving, six year old singing for the joy of it greeting the day, this morning Not sure who ...
A burst of familiar motion racing down from the chancel to my pew A very serious angel needing to go ...
Laughter, bright holy laughter preceded the blur of blue, running down the church's hallway hands held high, blue past the ...
A set of bathroom doors, "Adam" and "Eve", just outside the sanctuary door, flickered in my memory Thinking about those ...
A question, an important question Framed and pregnant in my mind had to wait a little longer for its asking ...
My wife shared with me new candles votives to replace those used up Suddenly I was six, maybe eight certainly ...
She marched into the kitchen all purposeful and proud stepstool from the bathroom in her four-year old arms "I'm going ...
Amherst never had a witch O Coos or of Grafton But once upon a time There were three old women. ...
Although it is night, I sit in the bathroom, waiting. Sweat prickles behind my knees, the baby-breasts are alert. Venetian ...
And all at length are gathered in. --LOUISE BOGAN By the time I came around to feeling pain and woke ...
Kind o'er the kinderbank leans my Myfanwy, White o'er the playpen the sheen of her dress, Fresh from the bathroom ...
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
he came to the door one night wet thin beaten and terrorized a white cross-eyed tailless cat I took him ...
Cass was the youngest and most beautiful of 5 sisters. Cass was the most beautiful girl in town. 1/2 Indian ...
I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny they are small, ...
Wasted, wasted minutes that couldn't be worse, minutes of a barbaric condescension. --Stare out the bathroom window at the fir-trees, ...
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea-- call ...
You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, ...
sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you ...
I was shacked with a 24 year old girl from New York City for two weeks- about the time of ...
call it the greenhouse effect or whatever but it just doesn't rain like it used to. I particularly remember the ...
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