Clouds Above The Sea (Philip Levine Poems)
My father and mother, two tiny figures, side by side, facing the clouds that move in from the Atlantic. August, ...
Philip Levine Poems on Fire (11 Poems)
The Present (Philip Levine Poems)
The day comes slowly in the railyard behind the ice factory. It broods on one cinder after another until each ...
The Rains (Philip Levine Poems)
The river rises and the rains keep coming. My Papa says it can't flood for the water can run away ...
Smoke (Philip Levine Poems)
Can you imagine the air filled with smoke? It was. The city was vanishing before noon or was it earlier ...
Voyages (Philip Levine Poems)
Pond snipe, bleached pine, rue weed, wart -- I walk by sedge and brown river rot to where the old ...
For The Country (Philip Levine Poems)
THE DREAM This has nothing to do with war or the end of the world. She dreams there are gray ...
Holy Day (Philip Levine Poems)
Los Angeles hums a little tune -- trucks down the coast road for Monday Market packed with small faces blinking ...
Late Moon (Philip Levine Poems)
2 a.m. December, and still no mon rising from the river. My mother home from the beer garden stands before ...
The Unknowable (Philip Levine Poems)
Los Angeles hums a little tune -- trucks down the coast road for Monday Market packed with small faces blinking ...
Waking In March (Philip Levine Poems)
Last night, again, I dreamed my children were back at home, small boys huddled in their separate beds, and I ...
Last Words (Philip Levine Poems)
If the shoe fell from the other foot who would hear? If the door opened onto a pure darkness and ...