Fortuna Et Cupidas (Irving Layton Poems)
Appetite and chance, luck and desiretogether make a man's fatenot the follish lines on his palm nor the conjugationof stars ...
Irving Layton Poems (9 Poems)
The tamed puma (Irving Layton Poems)
You are mistaken, he saidI am neither lecher nor womanizer.If I'm crazy about womenit's for the beautysome pitying devil threw ...
To The Girls Of My Graduating Class (Irving Layton Poems)
Wanting for their young limbs praise,Their thighs, hips, and saintly breasts,They grow from awkwardness to delight,Their mouths made perfect with ...
Divinity (Irving Layton Poems)
Were I a clumsy poetI'd compare you to Helen;Ransack the mythologiesGreek, Chinese and PersianFor a goddess vehementAnd slim: one with ...
Nightfall (Irving Layton Poems)
We have taken the nightlike a Persian black catinto bed with us;your fingers stoking my body's heatare the glittering redglassware ...
Insomnia (Irving Layton Poems)
After the bathyou lay on the bedexposing layersof beautiful washed skinwe both stared at in surprise;long strands of hair, shiny ...
At the Iglesia de Sacromonte (Irving Layton Poems)
a death's headfrom which falls awaya black soutane,he conducts meand the three withered nunsfrom Pamplonathrough his catacomb of horrors.Complete with ...
Hills and hills (Irving Layton Poems)
The hillsremind meof youNot becausethey curve soft and warmlovely and firmunder the Greek sunOr flowtowards the horizonin slow limpid wavesfalling ...
Creation (Irving Layton Poems)
I fashioned you:Composed you between darkness and dawn.You are my best-made poemThe one I labored longest over.What does one do ...