The Intruder (Carolyn Kizer Poem)
My mother-- preferring the strange to the tame: Dove-note, bone marrow, deer dung, Frog's belly distended with finny young, Leaf-mould ...
My mother-- preferring the strange to the tame: Dove-note, bone marrow, deer dung, Frog's belly distended with finny young, Leaf-mould ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
On the summer road that ran by our front porch Lizards and snakes came out to sun. It was hot ...
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
If instead of being hanged by the neck you're thrown inside for not giving up hope in the world, your ...
There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, That's noted for fresh air and fun, And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom Went ...
There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, That's noted for fresh air and fun, And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom Went ...
When I heard he had entered the harbor, and circled the wharf for days, I expected the worst: shallow water, ...
Fleas, lice, a horse peeing near my pillow. (Matsuo Basho)
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy. Thine has a great hook nose like ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
For Brenda Williams La lune diminue; divin septembre. Divine September the moon wanes. Pierre Jean Jouve Themes for poems and ...
Said a monkey unto me: "How I'm glad I am not you! See, I swing from tree to tree, Something ...
Oh Lip-Stick Liz was in the biz, That's the oldest known in history; She had a lot of fancy rags, ...
Mad Maria in the Square Sits upon a wicker chair. When the keeper asks the price Mad Maria counts her ...
I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And ...
I study the lives on a leaf: the little Sleepers, numb nudgers in cold dimensions, Beetles in caves, newts, stone-deaf ...
Nudes -- stark and glistening, Yelling in lurid glee. Grinning faces And raging limbs Whirl over the floor one fire. ...
In the dour ages Of drafty cells and draftier castles, Of dragons breathing without the frame of fables, Saint and ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
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