The Elementary Scene (Randall Jarrell Poem)
Looking back in my mind I can see The white sun like a tin plate Over the wooden turning of ...
Looking back in my mind I can see The white sun like a tin plate Over the wooden turning of ...
The butcher knife goes in, first, at the top And carves out the round stemmed lid, The hole of which ...
Robin Hood's mother, these twelve years now, Has been gone from her earthly home; And Robin has paid, he scarce ...
The changing of the leaves the season of autumn oranges and reds and pure simple yellows But words of color ...
Standing on water buoyed by your love even when the winds make some standing confidently knowing you can hold me ...
Seemingly wet, alive dripping, overflowing saturated with new color each flower giving, sharing pouring out, into the wings more than ...
The yellow swallowtail elegant butterfly moving dancing on the humid air flitting to the garden Coming to alight, resting perching ...
The strider skating like the Apollo lunar lander standing in the moon dust leaving a mere impression Standing on the ...
As certain of the strider counting on the surface tension to buoy it up on its feet We are to ...
At the far end of the manicured lawn, the field really, rolling up toward the horizon line, up above the ...
The cold in the air reminds me of the country fair the candied apple, the hot burnt sausage sub the ...
The new candle tarts, ready for the winter season shared by the shopper yesterday, the fruits of her labor, presented ...
Under the canopy over the lake on the flat surface of the pier next to the boat moored there I ...
Smell the bold colors, Rich in my nostrils, Illuminated on the branches before me as I drive. Low sunlight piercing ...
After Midnight The coach a pumpkin And coachmen field mice The spell broken And the bubble burst. It's dark And ...
Methinks this World is oddly made, And ev'ry thing's amiss, A dull presuming Atheist said, As stretch'd he lay beneath ...
Air a-gittin' cool an' coolah, Frost a-comin' in de night, Hicka' nuts an' wa'nuts fallin', Possum keepin' out o' sight. ...
For months on end the pumpkins lay at peace, their parent vines had all but browned and died although a ...
Half squatter, half tenant (no rent)- a sort of inheritance; white, in your thirties now, and supposed to supply me ...
THESE are the tawny days: your face comes back. The grapes take on purple: the sunsets redden early on the ...
I am Ebenezer Bleezer, I run BLEEZER'S ICE CREAM STORE, there are flavors in my freezer you have never seen ...
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