Ode to a Dressmaker’s Dummy (Donald Justice Poems)
<i>Papier-mache body; blue-and-black cotton jersey cover. Metal stand. Instructions included. </i>-- Sears, Roebuck CatalogueO my coy darling, stillYou wear for ...
<i>Papier-mache body; blue-and-black cotton jersey cover. Metal stand. Instructions included. </i>-- Sears, Roebuck CatalogueO my coy darling, stillYou wear for ...
It's snowing this afternoon and there are no flowers.There is only this sound of falling, quiet and remote,Like the memory ...
But these maneuverings to avoidThe touching of hands,These shifts to keep the eyes employedOn objects more or less neutral(As honor, ...
Tramps on the road: floating clouds. OLD CHINESE POEM1 Agriculture and Industry Embraced in public on a wall- Heroes ...
1Dear ghosts, dear presences, O my dear parents,Why were you so sad on porches, whispering?What great melancholies were loosed among ...
Les morts C'est sous terre; ?a n'en sort Gu?re. LAFORGUE Our diaries squatted, toad-like, ...
Cities burn behind us; the lake glitters. A tall loudspeaker is announcing prizes; Another, by the lake, the times of ...
Papier-mache body; blue-and-black cotton jersey cover. Metal stand. Instructions included. — Sears, Roebuck CatalogueO my coy darling, still ...
Our lives avoided tragedySimply by going on and on,Without end and with little apparent meaning.Oh, there were storms and small ...
1 These seven houses have learned to face one another, But not at the expected angles. Those silly brown lumps, ...
Me morir? en Paris con aguacero ... I will die in Miami in the sun, On a day when the ...
The Man Closing Up," from Night Light" (1967), would make his bed,If he could sleep on it.He would make his ...
This poem is not addressed to you. You may come into it briefly, But no one will find you here, ...
But the essential advantage for a poet is not, to have a beautiful world with which to deal: it is ...
One of those men who can be a car salesman or a tourist from Syracuse or a hired assassin. — ...
We have climbed the mountain. There's nothing more to do. It is terrible to come down To the valley Where, ...
Turn your head. Look. The light is turning yellow. The river seems enriched thereby, not to say deepened. Why this ...
Now comes the evening of the mind.Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood;Here is the shadow moving down the ...
R. B. VAUGHN speaks: "After so many years of pursuing the ideal I came home. But I had caught sight ...
It's snowing this afternoon and there are no flowers.There is only this sound of falling, quiet and remote,Like the memory ...
CROSSING KANSAS BY TRAIN The telephone poles Have been holding their Arms out A long time now To birds That ...
It begins again, the nocturnal pulse. It courses through the cables laid for it. It mounts to the chandeliers and ...
Jane looks down at her organdy skirtAs if it somehow were the thing disgraced,For being there, on the floor, in ...
It always comes, and when it comes they know.To will it is enough to bring them there.The knack is this, ...
Lights are burning In quiet rooms Where lives go on Resembling ours. The quiet lives That follow us- These lives ...
This one was put in a jacket, This one was sent home, This one was given bread and meat But ...
But these maneuverings to avoid The touching of hands, These shifts to keep the eyes employed On objects more or ...
Thirty today, I sawThe trees flare briefly likeThe candles upon a cake As the sun went down the sky,A momentary ...
We shall not ever meet them bearded in heavenNor sunning themselves among the bald of hell;If anywhere, in the deserted ...
Your face more than others' facesMaps the half-remembered placesI have come to I while I slept-Continents a dream had keptSecret ...
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