Coming Close (Philip Levine Poems)
Take this quiet woman, she has been standing before a polishing wheel for over three hours, and she lacks twenty ...
Thursday, June 4, 2020
Philip Levine Poems (94 Poems)
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 ...
In A Vacant House (Philip Levine Poems)
Someone was calling someone; now they've stopped. Beyond the glass the rose vines quiver as in a light wind, but ...
Late Light (Philip Levine Poems)
Rain filled the streets once a year, rising almost to door and window sills, battering walls and roofs until it ...
I Sing The Body Electric (Philip Levine Poems)
People sit numbly at the counter waiting for breakfast or service. Today it's Hartford, Connecticut more than twenty-five years after ...
The Whole Soul (Philip Levine Poems)
Is it long as a noodle or fat as an egg? Is it lumpy like a potato or ringed like ...
An Ending (Philip Levine Poems)
Early March. The cold beach deserted. My kids home in a bare house, bundled up and listening to rock music ...
Once (Philip Levine Poems)
Hungry and cold, I stood in a doorway on Delancey Street in 1946 as the rain came down. The worst ...
The Turning (Philip Levine Poems)
Unknown faces in the street And winter coming on. I Stand in the last moments of The city, no more ...
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 ...