The Red Lacquer Music-Stand (Amy Lowell Poem)
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
A music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven ...
"Of course I was drugged, and so heavily I did not regain consciousness until the next morning. I was horrified ...
During the war, I was in China. Every night we blew the world to hell. The sky was purple and ...
the way loss seeps into neck hollows and curls at temples sits between front teeth cavity empty and waiting for ...
And then we began eating corn starch, chalk chewed wet into sirup. We pilfered Argo boxes stored away to stiffen ...
He loved her and she loved him His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to He ...
A desk became a portal a keyhole to the past hiding a secret uncovering another a family fact unknown to ...
Among the pens and pencils in my desk drawer a piece of eternity fractured and frozen brings me to that ...
He was a real lady killer a women's man for sure an entomologist in training he had fruit flies growing, ...
Liner Notes - (from Love Is A Dog From Hell) My friend Jenny is really worried that people are going ...
Henry the Seventh of England Wasn't out of the Royal top drawer, The only connection of which he could boast, ...
The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you ...
The Bird must sing to earn the Crumb What merit have the Tune No Breakfast if it guaranty The Rose ...
Summer laid her simple Hat On its boundless Shelf -- Unobserved -- a Ribbon slipt, Snatch it for yourself. Summer ...
Her little Parasol to lift And once to let it down Her whole Responsibility -- To imitate be Mine. A ...
Essential Oils -- are wrung -- The Attar from the Rose Be not expressed by Suns -- alone -- It ...
You cannot put a Fire out -- A Thing that can ignite Can go, itself, without a Fan -- Upon ...
We outgrow love, like other things And put it in the Drawer -- Till it an Antique fashion shows -- ...
Indeed. These jagged crevasses of the psyche are treacherous, gray. Extending two hundred plus days in every direction; an ominous ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
Nor thou, Habib, nor I are glad, when rosy limbs and sweat entwine; But rapture drowns the sense and self, ...
Nor thou, Habib, nor I are glad, when rosy limbs and sweat entwine; But rapture drowns the sense and self, ...
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your ...
Their life, collapsed like unplayed cards, is carried piecemeal through the snow; Headboard and footboard now, the bed where she ...
No. It can't be. No! You too, beloved? Why? What for? Darling, look - I came, I brought flowers, but, ...
The first ones were attached to my dress at the waist, one on either side, right at the point where ...
One that I cherished, Yea, loved as a son - Up early, up late with, My promising one: No use ...
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
She wakens early remembering her father rising in the dark lighting the stove with a match scraped on the floor. ...
A solitary apartment house, the last one before the boulevard ends and a dusty road winds its slow way out ...
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