A Happy Childhood (William Matthews Poems)
My mother stands at the screen door, laughing."Out out damn Spot," she commands our silly dog.I wonder what this means. ...
My mother stands at the screen door, laughing."Out out damn Spot," she commands our silly dog.I wonder what this means. ...
Let us gohumming a tune,putting on our sneakers.The gentle lady of Itabashi1-- the edge of her kimono-- clouds, golden-- green ...
after Rene CharLet's agree that the night is a blank canvas, a stationbreak, a bridge of a song.Let's agree further ...
I am an atheist who says his prayers.I am an anarchist, and a full professor at that. I take the ...
The jaunty crop-haired grayingWomen in grocery stores,Their clothes boyish and neat,New mittens or clean sneakers,Clean hands, hips not bad still,Buying ...
I'd planned to be Heathcliff's Cathy,Lady Brett, Nicole or Dominique or Scarlett O'Hara.I hadn't planned to be folding up the ...
In the pond in the parkall things are doubled;Long buildings hang andwriggle gently. Chimneysare bent legs bouncingon clouds below. A flagwags like ...
When a man is fatigu'd with the toils of the day, No med'cine like sherries can drive care away; Without it, his ...
poem supposed to be about one minute and the lives of three women in it writing it and up the ...
She ran to see her friend coming back together the green clogs and the gray sneakers walking together Not running, ...
Sneakers on wires, trash in trees urban ornaments overhead drawing eyes upward away from the litter, the flotsam and jetsam ...
Sneakers of mud Squish between my toes Move to the music Unhinge my spine Rain upon me Don't have a ...
The whole idea of it makes me feel like I'm coming down with something, something worse than any stomach ache ...
Morning again, nothing has to be done, maybe buy a piano or make fudge. At least clean the room up ...
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