Cardinal Ideograms (May Swenson Poems)
A mouth. Can blow or breathe, be a funnel, or Hello. A grass blade or a cut. A question seated. And a proud bird's neck. Shallow mitten ...
A mouth. Can blow or breathe, be a funnel, or Hello. A grass blade or a cut. A question seated. And a proud bird's neck. Shallow mitten ...
We know no mithridatum of despairas drunks, the angry penguins of the night,straddling the cobbles of the square,tying a shoelace ...
A huge shoe mounts up from the horizon, squealing and grinding forward on small wheels, even as a man sitting ...
I reached up into the top of the closet and took out a pair of blue panties and showed them ...
All night the knot in the shoelace waits for its liberation, and the match on the table packs its head ...
My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellow's grave nor the glass ...
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