I saw my toes the other day.
I hadn’t looked at them for months
Indeed, they might have passed awa
And yet they were my best friends
When I was small, I knew them wel

What can you say about Pennsylvan
in regard to New England except t
it is slightly less cold, and less
or rather that the rocks are diffe
Redder, and gritty, and piled up h

When winter’s glaze is lifted from
And cups are freshly cut, and bird
Triumphantly the stifled golfer pr
In cleats and slacks once more, an
This year, he vows, his head will

Pearl Avenue runs past the high-s
Bends with the trolley tracks, and
Before it has a chance to go two b
At Colonel McComsky Plaza. Bert
Is on the corner facing west, and

Black queen on the red king,
the seven on the black
eight, eight goes on the nine, bri
the nine on over, place
jack on the queen. There is space

How long will our bewildered heirs
marooned in possessions not theirs
puzzle at disposing of these three
cunning feignings of hard candy in
the striped little pillowlike mock

Just the thought of them makes you
those turkey dinners, those holida
the air around the woodstove baked
and Aunt Lil’s tablecloth stained
A doggy wordless wisdom whimpers f

They will not be the same next tim
so cute, just slightly off, will b
Their eyes will be more skeptical,
the more securely to the worldly b
of television, alphabet, and stree

The line didn’t move, though there
many people in it. In a half-heart
the lone agent dealt patiently, no
with a large dazed family ranging
from twin toddlers in strollers to

At night—the light turned off, the
Unburdened of its atom-eating char
His wife asleep, her breathing dip
To touch a swampy source—he though
Her father’s hilltop home allowed