American Beauty (Carolyn Kizer Poem)
For Ann London As you described your mastectomy in calm detail and bared your chest so I might see the ...
For Ann London As you described your mastectomy in calm detail and bared your chest so I might see the ...
(From the French of Emile Verhaeren) He who walks through the meadows of Champagne At noon in Fall, when leaves ...
A much-discerning Public hold The Singer generally sings And prints and sells his past for gold. Whatever I may here ...
Through the Plagues of Egyp' we was chasin' Arabi, Gettin' down an' shovin' in the sun; An' you might 'ave ...
It was in the old days, When she used to hang out at a place Called Club Zombie, A black ...
Her imaginary playmate was a grown-up In sea-coal satin. The flame-blue glances, The wings gauzy as the membrane that the ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Not blues in twelve but there is joy and pink champagne, the maker's music trading eights in syncopated synergy from ...
Walking carefully onto the stone bridge snow and ice on the path We stood together in our finery our three ...
A fall sky in slumber warming fan brush strokes, horsehair bristles, pushed across the fall tableau Deep burgundies and dark ...
A blackbird lands A good beer-barrel A man sits in a cave knitting A theatre in Copenhagen Abask the sea-wall ...
Stairstep music: ups, downs, Bill Robinson smiling, jazzdancing the rounds. She raised champagne lips, danced inside banana hips. All Paris ...
Let's talk about the weather then, would that help you take your ease? Gossip is so rare from you the ...
She does not mind a good cigar (The kind, that is, I smoke); She thinks all men quite stupid are, ...
In your hidden memories There are fatal tidings of doom... A curse on sacred traditions, A desecration of happiness; And ...
(Translated from the French by Edouard Rodti) My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of ...
We're talking different kinds of vulnerability here. These icicles aren't going to last for ever Suspended in the ultra violet ...
Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things ...
Oh, some folk think vice-royalty is festive and hilarious, The duties of an A.D.C. are manifold and various, So listen, ...
Hypochondriacs Spend the winter at the bottom of Florida and the summer on top of the Adirondriacs. You go to ...
In the World language, sometimes called Airport Road, a thinks balloon with a gondola under it is a symbol for ...
As I sit at my desk wishing I did not have to edit a book on poetry and painting a ...
Ere all the world had grown so drear, When I was young and you were here, 'Mid summer roses in ...
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