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At a party I spy a handsome psych… And wish, as we all do, to get her… Doctor, I’ll say, I’m supposed to… All life’s awfulness has been gris… We learn that happiness is a Chin…
At Samoa, hardly unpacked, I comm… When I’d opened the chicken crate… The Reverend Mr. Claxton called,… My clothes torn, my hair in a wad,… I had started the buffalo grass in…
for Maxine Kumin Where did these enormous children… More ladylike than we have ever be… Some of ours look older than we fe… How did they appear in their long…
For more than thirty years we hadn… I remembered the bright query of y… That single-minded look, intense a… Yet most important –how could I f… Was what your taught me inadvertan…
Sirs, in our youth you love the si… Older, you fall in love with what… Would lose yourselves by living in… I’ll spin you tales, play the Ara… Working close, alone in the blond…
The stout poet tiptoes On the lawn. Surprisingly limber In his thick sweater Like a middle-age burglar. Is the young robin injured?
It’s a spring morning; sun pours i… As I sit here drinking coffee, re… And finding him, as always, newly… From when I first encountered him… Today I’m overcome with astonishm…
In the laboratory waiting room containing one television actor with a teary… trying a contact lens; two muscular victims of industrial…
M.A.K. September, 1880-September… As I wandered on the beach I saw the heron standing Sunk in the tattered wings He wore as a hunchback’s coat.
From Sappho to myself, consider t… How unwomanly to discuss it! Like… The clinical sobriquet hangs us: c… Never mind these epithets; I myse… Juvenal set us apart in denouncing…
The poets are going home now, After the years of exile, After the northern climates Where they worked, lectured, remem… Where they shivered at night
Remembering the past And gloating at it now, I know the frozen brow And shaking sides of lust Will dog me at my death
Arms and the girl I sing - O rare arms that are braceleted and white… arms that were lovely Helen’s, in… Greek slaughtered Trojan. Helen w… Scape-nanny call her; wars for tur…
We don’t lack people here on the… But they are people one meets, not… So I bundle my daughters into the… And with my brother poets, go to v… Here come your guests! A swarm of…