The Métier of Blossoming (Denise Levertov Poem)
Fully occupied with growing--that's the amaryllis. Growing especially at night: it would take only a bit more patience than I've ...
Fully occupied with growing--that's the amaryllis. Growing especially at night: it would take only a bit more patience than I've ...
'This was Mr Bleaney's room. He stayed The whole time he was at the Bodies, till They moved him.' Flowered ...
It could be Valley Oak or Snap-bean, Elderberry, or Cattail rising out of the creek; all began the same, a ...
I In the depths of the Greyhound Terminal sitting dumbly on a baggage truck looking at the sky waiting for ...
All is quiet in the house, girls asleep, slowing down the only sound my fingers clicking these words the purr ...
There was something about it the way he had things just so, from the start a level, freshly cut boards ...
She was there in the morning holding fast to the porch screen bewitched by the indoor bulb in the outside ...
The floor is something we must fight against. Whilst seemingly mere platform for the human stance, it is that place ...
Split the Lark -- and you'll find the Music -- Bulb after Bulb, in Silver rolled -- Scantilly dealt to ...
So from the mould Scarlet and Gold Many a Bulb will rise -- Hidden away, cunningly, From sagacious eyes. So ...
I said goodbye and went to bed to die; I never knew that they had lied - was quite surprised ...
I said fate plays a game without a score, and who needs fish if you've got caviar? The triumph of ...
Here's a girl from a dangerous town She crops her dark hair short so that less of her has to ...
SANDBOX MINUS JOHN DILLINGER EQUALS WHAT? Often I return to the cover of Trout Fishing in America. I took the ...
you haven't lived until you've been in a flophouse with nothing but one light bulb and 56 men squeezed together ...
Fibers, flesh. Electricity transudes through a sigh. Sun-bordered clouds migrate from your eyes to my core: swooshing of curtains, temples ...
This is the easy time, there is nothing doing. I have whirled the midwife's extractor, I have my honey, Six ...
The artichoke of delicate heart erect in its battle-dress, builds its minimal cupola; keeps stark in its scallop of scales. ...
Three months after he lies dead, that long yellow narrow body, not like Christ but like one of his saints, ...
When I eat crab, slide the rosy rubbery claw across my tongue I think of my mother. She'd drive down ...
I. Insomnia The bulb at the front door burns and burns. If it were a white rose it would tire ...
Still sober, César Vallejo comes home and finds a black ribbon around the apartment building covering the front door. He ...
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