So I Said I Am Ezra (A. R. Ammons Poem)
So I said I am Ezra and the wind whipped my throat gaming for the sounds of my voice I ...
So I said I am Ezra and the wind whipped my throat gaming for the sounds of my voice I ...
It was May before my attention came to spring and my word I said to the southern slopes I've missed ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Here is my gift, not roses on your grave, not sticks of burning incense. You lived aloof, maintaining to the ...
And the stone word fell On my still-living breast. Never mind, I was ready. I will manage somehow. Today I ...
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
Coldly, sadly descends The autumn-evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
This is a word we use to plug holes with. It's the right size for those warm blanks in speech, ...
I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would ...
My daughter plays on the floor with plastic letters, red, blue & hard yellow, learning how to spell, spelling, how ...
You begin this way: this is your hand, this is your eye, this is a fish, blue and flat on ...
I hold my honey and I store my bread In little jars and cabinets of my will. I label clearly, ...
hooray say the roses, today is blamesday and we are red as blood. hooray say the roses, today is Wednesday ...
I sit here on the 2nd floor hunched over in yellow pajamas still pretending to be a writer. some damned ...
what i liked about e.e. cummings was that he cut away from the holiness of the word and with charm ...
once we were young at this machine. . . drinking smoking typing it was a most splendid miraculous time still ...
Drop a pebble in the water: just a splash, and it is gone; But there's half-a-hundred ripples circling on and ...
One song can spark a moment, One flower can wake the dream One tree can start a forest, One bird ...
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