Vienna, December 1999 (Jonathan Bohrn Poem)
I watched the winter light die from the bridge, the sky a sinking empire's battleship, ice floes' jagged edges clink ...
I watched the winter light die from the bridge, the sky a sinking empire's battleship, ice floes' jagged edges clink ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Was ever a maiden so worried? I'll admit I am partial to Jim, For Jimmie has promised to wed me ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
THE AUTOPSY OF TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA This is the autopsy of Trout Fishing in America as if Trout Fishing ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Some days I am Ana's teacher, some days she is mine. This morning, we look through her kitchen window, the ...
I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished: I hold it in me like ...
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry ...
WHILE at the stook the shearers cow'r To shun the bitter blaudin' show'r, Or in gulravage rinnin scowr To pass ...
Cup of Words Crystal sphere sitting Before child like statue Words of Lennon mixed In a clay Klee fish bowl ...
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
1 AS a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think ...
There was a hope for poetry in the sixties And for education and society, teachers free To do as they ...
Alone in Sutton with Fynbos my orange cat A long weekend of wind and rain drowning The tumultuous flurry of ...
LAWS for Creations, For strong artists and leaders-for fresh broods of teachers, and perfect literats for America, For noble savans, ...
1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
ON journeys through the States we start, (Ay, through the world-urged by these songs, Sailing henceforth to every land-to every ...
It brings to mind Swift leaving a fortune to Dublin 'For the founding of a lunatic asylum - no place ...
Lucilla, wedded to Lucretius, found Her master cold; for when the morning flush Of passion and the first embrace had ...
(After Rilke) Spring has returned! Everything has returned! The earth, just like a schoolgirl, memorizes Poems, so many poems. ... ...
I was hoping to be happy by seventeen. School was a sharp check mark in the roll book, An obnoxious ...
I am twenty-four led to slaughter I survived. The following are empty synonyms: man and beast love and hate friend ...
'Twas in a little western town An ancient Maiden dwelt: Her name was MISS, or MISTRESS, Brown, Or DEBORAH, or ...
The opening scene. The yellow, coal-fed fog Uncurling over the tainted city river, A young girl rowing and her anxious ...
Amid my books I lived the hurrying years, Disdaining kinship with my fellow man; Alike to me were human smiles ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
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