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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
Last night I dreamed I ran throug… Looking for help for you, Nicanor… But my few friends who are rich or… were temporarily absent from their… They had gone to the opera, or flo…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
He was believed by his peers to be… But his erotic obsession, condemne… Compromised his standing, and led… Over sixty, and a father many time… The objects of his attention grew…
The stout poet tiptoes On the lawn. Surprisingly limber In his thick sweater Like a middle-age burglar. Is the young robin injured?
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…
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…
The whole green sky is dying.The… With a great burst of supernatural… Under a canopy of poisonous airs. Could we imagine our return to pra… To end in time before time’s final…
After you left me forever, I was broken into pieces, and all the pieces flung into the… Then the legs crawled ashore and aimlessly wandered the dusty c…