Exiles (Marilyn Hacker Poem)
Her brown falcon perches above the sink as steaming water forks over my hands. Below the wrists they shrivel and ...
Her brown falcon perches above the sink as steaming water forks over my hands. Below the wrists they shrivel and ...
My Pillow gazes upon me at night Empty as a gravestone; I never thought it would be so bitter To ...
I watch you walk up our front path, the entire right side of your body, stiff and unbending, your leg, ...
Under silver wing San Francisco's towers sprouting thru thin gas clouds, Tamalpais black-breasted above Pacific azure Berkeley hills pine-covered below-- ...
Please master can I touch your cheeck please master can I kneel at your feet please master can I loosen ...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves ...
The blond hair shimmering in the morning sunlight the sun hidden, not visible behind the house across the street Only ...
I had sex with a famous poet last night and when I rolled over and found myself beside him I ...
Where is the distant voice That speaks like my soul? Buried beneath daylight's clamor Gold and the seasons Beneath groaning ...
The angel of self-discipline, her guardian Since she first knew and had to go away From home that spring to ...
A hotel in whose ledgers departures are more prominent than arrivals. With wet Koh-i-noors the October rain strokes what's left ...
Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about ...
How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village ...
THERE is a wolf in me . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . a red tongue for raw meat . ...
He felt the entrance's green darkness wrapped cooly round him like a silken cloak that he was still accepting and ...
Through these pale cold days What dark faces burn Out of three thousand years, And their wild eyes yearn, While ...
I ordered this, clean wood box Square as a chair and almost too heavy to lift. I would say it ...
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
The sun came up before breakfast, perfectly round and yellow, and we dressed in the soft light and shook out ...
This harpie with dry red curls talked openly of her husband, his impotence, his death, the death of her lover, ...
You pull over to the shoulder of the two-lane road and sit for a moment wondering where you were going ...
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