Death by Aesthetics (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
Here is the doctor, an abstracted lover,dressed as a virgin, coming to keep the tryst.The patient was early; she is ...
Here is the doctor, an abstracted lover,dressed as a virgin, coming to keep the tryst.The patient was early; she is ...
WE was in the " Blue Dragon,' Sid 'Awkins and me,When all of a sudden, "Here, Ernie," says he,"There are ...
A settler in the olden times went forthWith four of his most bold and trusted menInto the wilderness-went forth to ...
The gods let slip that fiendish grip Upon me last week Sunday--No fiercer storm than racked my form ...
Come to me, sweetest friend, at the usual hour,do not fail to come, for the gossip mongers wantto attack our ...
Fish "So . . ." they said, With their wine-glasses delicately poised, Mocking at the thing they cannot understand. "So ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, ...
He'll be pleased if I phone to ask him how he is. It will make me look considerate and he ...
Good Father!. 'Twas an eve in middle June, And war was waged anew By great Napoleon, who for years had ...
do you think an old heart can't sing do you think an old heart can't dance with a love that ...
When they were gripped by fear buffeted, rocked by wind, waves afraid in the boat He reassured them all "I ...
The monster has escaped from the dungeon where he was kept by the Baron, who made him with knobs sticking ...
Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken ...
I was schooled well before he died, able at least to feel what others felt when their fathers were deceased. ...
A Poem for Three Voices Setting: A Maternity Ward and round about FIRST VOICE: I am slow as the world. ...
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