The Father Of Toads (Russell Edson Poem)
A man had just delivered a toad from his wife's armpit. He held it by its legs and spanked it. ...
A man had just delivered a toad from his wife's armpit. He held it by its legs and spanked it. ...
There was a man who didn't know how to sleep; nodding off every night into a drab, unprofessional sleep. Sleep ...
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
I'll tell you the story of Balbus, You know, him as builded a wall; I'll tell you the reason he ...
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows ...
There is a chimp named Ai who can count to five. There's a poet named Ai whose selected poems Vice ...
It was supposed to be Arts & Crafts for a week, but when she came home with the "Jesus Saves" ...
Relax. This won't last long. Or if it does, or if the lines make you sleepy or bored, give in ...
A hush is over all the teeming lists, And there is pause, a breath-space in the strife; A spirit brave ...
The man whose term we would remember as our longest, constant serving Head of State, besides the late Sir Robert ...
There were some worthy places where we could escape, avoid the heavy weight of living in a densely peopled space; ...
I asked my Dad about the War when I was very young, he said it happened a long, long time ...
Tales in the beginning didn't begin in the telling, they would have started no doubt, but not without a concrete ...
My enemy my friend whom I know without compromise, when I listened to the deconstructions avowed of you as your ...
Even from afar came shouts of recognition joyful voices rang across the years disdained and faces of our childhood unforgot ...
Congratulations, you've succeeded, you've acknowledged 60% of you at least are the incredibly dense and mindless people needed to make ...
These painful, cold athritic fingers have to last much longer yet, they're all I have to keep the pages on ...
The poet Phernazis is composing the important part of his epic poem. How Darius, son of Hystaspes, assumed the kingdom ...
I never had you, nor will I ever have you I suppose. A few words, an approach as in the ...
And all at length are gathered in. --LOUISE BOGAN By the time I came around to feeling pain and woke ...
This morning was something. A little snow lay on the ground. The sun floated in a clear blue sky. The ...
Lo! I lament. Fallen is the sixfold Star: Slain is Asar. O twinned with me in the womb of Night! ...
Lo! I lament. Fallen is the sixfold Star: Slain is Asar. O twinned with me in the womb of Night! ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
(For Donald Hall) Have you heard about the boy who walked by The black water? I won't say much more. ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
A sinner was old Captain Dan; His wives guv him no rest: He had one wife to East Skiddaw And ...
In summer's mellow midnight, A cloudless moon shone through Our open parlour window, And rose-trees wet with dew. I sat ...
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