
American Beauty – Carolyn Kizer
For Ann London As you described your mastectomy in calm detail and bared your chest so I might see the puckered scar, …
For Ann London As you described your mastectomy in calm detail and bared your chest so I might see the puckered scar, …
When from his cave, young Mao in his youthful mind A work to renew old China first designed, Then he alone interpreted …
He was believed by his peers to be an important poet, But his erotic obsession, condemned and strictly forbidden, Compromised his standing, …
Arms and the girl I sing – O rare arms that are braceleted and white and bare arms that were lovely Helen’s, …
1. Had the ham bone, had the lentils, Got to meat store for the salt pork, Got to grocery for the celery. …
Tout le ciel vert se meurt Le dernier arbre brûle. The whole green sky is dying. The last tree flares With a …
The whole green sky is dying.The last tree flares With a great burst of supernatural rose Under a canopy of poisonous airs. …
for Maxine Kumin Where did these enormous children come from, More ladylike than we have ever been? Some of ours look older …
1 The stout poet tiptoes On the lawn. Surprisingly limber In his thick sweater Like a middle-age burglar. Is the young robin …
For more than thirty years we hadn’t met. I remembered the bright query of your face, That single-minded look,intense and stern, Yet …
My mother– preferring the strange to the tame: Dove-note, bone marrow, deer dung, Frog’s belly distended with finny young, Leaf-mould wilderness, hare-bell, …
Midas watched the golden crust That formed over his steaming sores, Hugged his agues, loved his lust, But damned to hell the …
No-one explains me because There is nothing to explain. It’s all right here Very clear. O for my reputations sake To be …