Falling (James Dickey Poems)
A 29-year-old stewardess fell ... to her death tonight when she was swept through an emergency door that suddenly sprang ...
James Dickey Poems on Death & Dying (9 Poems)
The Sheep Child (James Dickey Poems)
Farm boys wild to coupleWith anything with soft-wooded treesWith mounds of earth moundsOf pinestraw will keep themselves offAnimals by legends of their own:In ...
Pursuit From Under (James Dickey Poems)
Often, in these blue meadows,I hear what passes for the bark of sealsAnd on August week ends the cold of ...
The Hospital Window (James Dickey Poems)
I have just come down from my father.Higher and higher he liesAbove me in a blue lightShed by a tinted ...
Adultery (James Dickey Poems)
We have all been in roomsWe cannot die in, and they are odd places, and sad.Often Indians are standing eagle-armed ...
Buckdancer’s Choice (James Dickey Poems)
So I would hear out those lungs,The air split into nine levels,Some gift of tongues of the whistlerIn the invalid's ...
At Darien Bridge (James Dickey Poems)
The sea here used to lookAs if many convicts had built it,Standing deep in their ankle chains,Ankle-deep in the water, ...
The Shark’s Parlor (James Dickey Poems)
Memory: I can take my head and strike it on a wall on Cumberland Island Where the night tide came ...
FOR THE LAST WOLVERINE (James Dickey Poem)
They will soon be down To one, but he still will be For a little while still will be stopping ...