Meditation By The Stove (Linda Pastan Poems)
I have banked the fires of my body into a small but steady blaze here in the kitchen where the ...
I have banked the fires of my body into a small but steady blaze here in the kitchen where the ...
I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it---- A sort of walking miracle, my skin ...
What is this, behind this veil, is it ugly, is it beautiful? It is shimmering, has it breasts, has it ...
On the stiff twig up there Hunches a wet black rook Arranging and rearranging its feathers in the rain. I ...
You know the old story Ann Landers tells About the houseife in her basement doing the wash? She's wearing her ...
The air heaving like a wounded fish, breathing through its purplish sandy gills, letting in the salty gale, fluttering its ...
"I will to the King, And offer him consolation in his trouble, For that man there has set his teeth ...
Beautiful Hill o' Balgay, With your green frees and flowers fair, 'Tis health for the old and young For to ...
'Twas on Friday the 2nd of March, in the year of 1894, That the Storm Fiend did loudly laugh and ...
Alas! Now o'er Britannia there hangs a gloom, Because over 400 British Tars have met with a watery tomb; Who ...
The gh comes from rough, the o from women's, and the ti from unmentionables--presto: there's the perfect English instance of ...
'Twas in the year of 1888, and on July the 14th day, That an alarming accident occurred in the River ...
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all to list to me, And I'll relate a harrowing ...
'Twas on a Monday morning, and in the year of 1884, That a fire broke out in Bailie Bradford's store, ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
Strong and slippery, built for the midnight grass-party confronted by four cats, he sleeps his time away-- the detached first ...
To range, deep-wrapt, along a heavenly height, O'erseeing all that man but undersees; To loiter down lone alleys of delight, ...
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else get your way. Life is not no much a matter of position ...
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