The Position (Russell Edson Poem)
They let me in. I went right up to the nursery and climbed into the crib, and assumed the famous ...
Russell Edson Poems on Man (20 Poems)
The Autopsy (Russell Edson Poem)
In a back room a man is performing an autopsy on an old raincoat. His wife appears in the doorway ...
A Performance At Hog Theater (Russell Edson Poem)
There was once a hog theater where hogs performed as men, had men been hogs. One hog said, I will ...
Conjugal (Russell Edson Poem)
A man is bending his wife. He is bending her around something that she has bent herself around. She is ...
The Man Rock (Russell Edson Poem)
A man is a rock in a garden of chairs and waits for a longtime to be over. It is ...
The Wounded Breakfast (Russell Edson Poem)
A huge shoe mounts up from the horizon, squealing and grinding forward on small wheels, even as a man sitting ...
The Death Of A Fly (Russell Edson Poem)
There was once a man who disguised himself as a housefly and went about the neighborhood depositing flyspecks. Well, he ...
The Having To Love Something Else (Russell Edson Poem)
There was a man who would marry his mother, and asked his father for his mother's hand in marriage, and ...
Ape And Coffee (Russell Edson Poem)
Some coffee had gotten on a man's ape. The man said, animal did you get on my coffee? No no, ...
The Pilot (Russell Edson Poem)
Up in a dirty window in a dark room is a star which an old man can see. He looks ...
The Philosophers (Russell Edson Poem)
I think, therefore I am, said a man whose mother quickly hit him on the head, saying, I hit my ...
The Sad Message (Russell Edson Poem)
The Captain becomes moody at sea. He's afraid of water; such bully amounts that prove the seas. . . A ...
A Journey Through The Moonlight (Russell Edson Poem)
In sleep when an old man's body is no longer aware of his boundaries, and lies flattened by gravity like ...
Sleep (Russell Edson Poem)
There was a man who didn't know how to sleep; nodding off every night into a drab, unprofessional sleep. Sleep ...
A Historical Breakfast (Russell Edson Poem)
A man is bringing a cup of coffee to his face, tilting it to his mouth. It's historical, he thinks. ...
The Breast (Russell Edson Poem)
One night a woman's breast came to a man's room and began to talk about her twin sister. Her twin ...
Angels (Russell Edson Poem)
They have little use. They are best as objects of torment. No government cares what you do with them. Like ...
The Pattern (Russell Edson Poem)
A women had given birth to an old man. He cried to have again been caught in the pattern. Oh ...
The Fight (Russell Edson Poem)
A man is fighting with a cup of coffee. The rules: he must not break the cup nor spill its ...
The Fall (Russell Edson Poem)
There was a man who found two leaves and came indoors holding them out saying to his parents that he ...