Contraband (Denise Levertov Poem)
The tree of knowledge was the tree of reason. That's why the taste of it drove us from Eden. That ...
The tree of knowledge was the tree of reason. That's why the taste of it drove us from Eden. That ...
Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told. His mercy fills the Khyber hills -- his grace ...
THERE was a giant in time of old, A mighty one was he; He had a wife, but she was ...
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
(1) and off to scott's (the dockers' restaurant) burly men packed in round solid tables but what the helle (drowned ...
Seeing her young face a little bit dirty her mother tentative wanting to say yes the little stuffed dolly with ...
Breakfast was dad's cheesy eggs that was the urgent request when I posed the question of what they wanted to ...
On the drive East on the way to Gramma's house presents unwrapped toys discovered Dressed in their Christmas dresses new ...
Warm in their new winter coats in the backseat on the way to Gramma's three angels dreaming Christmas carols on ...
Instant monuments makeshift memorials of senseless tragedies all across America flowers, stuffed animals, candles, messages of instant grief sudden shock ...
Liner Notes - (from No More Mister Nice Girl) I was having a foul day. Some geezer harrassed me on ...
You haven't finished your ape, said mother to father, who had monkey hair and blood on his whiskers. I've had ...
One day, little Albert Ramsbottom To see 'ow much money 'e'd got Stuck a knife in 'is money-box slot 'ole ...
Mistah Kurtz -- he dead. A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow men We are the ...
They decide to exchange heads. Barbie squeezes the small opening under her chin over Ken's bulging neck socket. His wide ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
My maternal grandparents were snowbirds; the scent of their plumage an evergreen air freshener dangling off the rearview mirror of ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
The ladye she stood at her lattice high, Wi' her doggie at her feet; Thorough the lattice she can spy ...
the people are very small and shrink, dwarves on the way to netsuke hell bound for a flea circus in ...
Oh would I could subdue the flesh Which sadly troubles me! And then perhaps could view the flesh As though ...
As those of old drank mummia To fire their limbs of lead, Making dead kings from Africa Stand pandar to ...
The ewes crowd to the mangers; Their bellies widen, sag; Their udders tighten. Soon The little voices cry In morning ...
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
A RETURN TO THE COVER OF THIS BOOK Dear Trout Fishing in America: I met your friend Fritz in Washington ...
Filling her compact & delicious body with chicken páprika, she glanced at me twice. Fainting with interest, I hungered back ...
But do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once: Sit down and all ...
In the cold, cold parlor my mother laid out Arthur beneath the chromographs: Edward, Prince of Wales, with Princess Alexandra, ...
this time has finished me. I feel like the German troops whipped by snow and the communists walking bent with ...
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