The Ox (Russell Edson Poem)
There was once a woman whose father over the years had become an ox. She would hear him alone at ...
Russell Edson Poems on Night (9 Poems)
The Lighted Window (Russell Edson Poem)
A lighted window floats through the night like a piece of paper in the wind. I want to see into ...
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 ...
On The Eating Of Mice (Russell Edson Poem)
A woman prepared a mouse for her husband's dinner, roasting it with a blueberry in its mouth. At table he ...
The Bridge (Russell Edson Poem)
In his travels he comes to a bridge made entirely of bones. Before crossing he writes a letter to his ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ape (Russell Edson Poem)
You haven't finished your ape, said mother to father, who had monkey hair and blood on his whiskers. I've had ...