January 24 (David Lehman Poems)
I was about to be mugged by a man with a chain so angry he growled at the Lincoln Center ...
David Lehman Poems (58 Poems)
To Psyche (David Lehman Poems)
The longer I stare the lovelier you look in my eyes (so made such mirrors and spies) and I'm not ...
The Shield Of A Greeting (David Lehman Poems)
for J.A., December 3, 1975 Ashes that survive the aftermath of fire Bury the past bravely, retaining Only those messages ...
When A Woman Loves A Man (David Lehman Poems)
When she says Margarita she means Daiquiri. When she says quixotic she means mercurial. And when she says, "I'll never ...
Ode To Pornography (David Lehman Poems)
If you could write down the words moving through a man's mind as he masturbates you'd have a quick bonus ...
Ode To Modern Art (David Lehman Poems)
Come on in and stay a while I'll photograph you emerging from the revolving door like Frank O'Hara dating the ...
With Tenure (David Lehman Poems)
If Ezra Pound were alive today (and he is) he'd be teaching at a small college in the Pacific Northwest ...
Examples (August 27) (David Lehman Poems)
The last Campbell's tomato soup can of the twentieth century is going to the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh That ...
Sestina (David Lehman Poems)
for Jim Cummins In Iowa, Jim dreamed that Della Street was Anne Sexton's twin. Dave drew a comic strip called ...
Ninth Inning (David Lehman Poems)
He woke up in New York City on Valentine's Day, Speeding. The body in the booth next to his was ...
The Lift (David Lehman Poems)
The wonderful thing about being with you in this hotel lift in London full of people is that none of ...
Big Hair (David Lehman Poems)
Ithaca, October 1993: Jorie went on a lingerie tear, wanting to look like a moll in a Chandler novel. Dinner, ...
To The Author Of Glare (David Lehman Poems)
There comes a time when the story turns into twenty different stories and soon after that he academy of shadows ...
One Size Fits All: A Critical Essay (David Lehman Poems)
Though Already Perhaps However. On one level, Among other things, With And with. In a similar vein To be sure: ...
March 1 (David Lehman Poems)
I could stare for hours at her, the woman stepping out of her bath, breasts bare, towel around her waist, ...
The Difference Between Pepsi And Coke (David Lehman Poems)
Can't swim; uses credit cards and pills to combat intolerable feelings of inadequacy; Won't admit his dread of boredom, chief ...
February 23 (David Lehman Poems)
Light rain is falling in Central Park but not on Upper Fifth Avenue or Central Park West where sun and ...
June 11 (David Lehman Poems)
It's my birtday I've got an empty stomach and the desire to be lazy in the hammock and maybe go ...
May 8 (David Lehman Poems)
700 francs will get you $109.91 on this muggy May afternoon which is good to know since I just found ...
The Gift (David Lehman Poems)
"He gave her class. She gave him sex." -- Katharine Hepburn on Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers He gave her ...
To William Holden (David Lehman Poems)
(July 15) We know who the guards are in those POW movies with brutal but easy to fool fat Germans ...
January 31 (The sky is crumbling…) (David Lehman Poems)
The sky is crumbling into millions of paper dots the wind blows in my face so I duck into my ...
June 6 (David Lehman Poems)
No two are identical though they begin from the same point in time the same point in the dream when ...
April 19 (David Lehman Poems)
We have too much exhibitionism and not enough voyeurism in poetry we have plenty of bass and not enough treble, ...
A Quick One Before I Go (David Lehman Poems)
There comes a time in every man's life when he thinks: I have never had a single original thought in ...
The Left Bank (David Lehman Poems)
Don't walk away, Renee, I'm just getting warmed up your body is like a river and I'm going to swim ...
September 22 (David Lehman Poems)
It's the day of the ram and the head of the year Rosh Ha'Shanah at services I sat next to ...
PC (David Lehman Poems)
for Aaron Fogel Politically-correct personal computers point and click. President Clinton (codename Peacock) can't protect crack pushing Communist Party cops ...
July 12 (David Lehman Poems)
Wisteria, hysteria is as obvious a rhyme as Viagra and Niagara there must be a reason honeymooners traditionally went to ...
Operation Memory (David Lehman Poems)
We were smoking some of this knockout weed when Operation Memory was announced. To his separate bed Each soldier went, ...