Philosophia Perennis By Anne Waldman - Giggle Poems
I turned: quivering yellow stars in blackness??? I wept: how speech may save a woman The picture changes & promises the heroine??? That nighttime & me ...
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A Sister on the Tracks By Donald Hall - Giggle Poems
Between pond and sheepbarn, by maples and watery birches, Rebecca paces a double line of rust in a sandy trench, striding on black creosoted eight-by- ...
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Eating Together By Li-Young Lee - Giggle Poems
In the steamer is the trout??? seasoned with slivers of ginger, two sprigs of green onion, and sesame oil.??? We shall eat it with rice for lunch,??? ...
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Persimmons By Li-Young Lee - Giggle Poems
Dew: I’ve forgotten. Naked: I’ve forgotten. Wrens are small, plain birds, yarn is what one knits with. Knowing it wasn’t ripe or sweet, I didn’t eat b ...
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Ancestral By Archibald MacLeish - Giggle Poems
The star dissolved in evening—the one star The silently and night O soon now, soon And still the light now and still now the large Relinquishing and t ...
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How Things Work By Gary Soto - Giggle Poems
The tip I left For the waitress filters down Like rain, wetting the new roots of a child Perhaps, a belligerent cat that won’t let go Of a balled sock ...
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Past-Lives Therapy By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
They explained to me the bloody bandages On the floor in the maternity ward in Rochester, N.Y., Cured the backache I acquired bowing to my old master, ...
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Prodigy By Charles Simic - Giggle Poems
A retired professor of astronomy taught me how to play. In chess, too, the professor told me, the masters play blindfolded, the great ones on several ...
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Chattanooga By Ishmael Reed - Giggle Poems
1 Some say that Chattanooga is the Old name for Lookout Mountain To others it is an uncouth name Used only by the uncivilised Our a-historical period ...
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Unholy Sonnet 4 By Mark Jarman - Giggle Poems
Amazing to believe that nothingness??? Surrounds us with delight and lets us be,??? And that the meekness of nonentity,??? Despite the friction of the ...
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Dressing My Daughters By Mark Jarman - Giggle Poems
The mass of stuff That makes the Sunday frocks collapses In my hands and finds its shape, only because They understand the drape of it— These skinny k ...
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The Children By Mark Jarman - Giggle Poems
The children are hiding among the raspberry canes. We lie in bed at night, thinking about The future, always the future, always forgetting That it wil ...
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The Closet By Bill Knott - Giggle Poems
The closet has been cleaned out Full-flush as surgeries where the hangers could be Amiable scalpels though they just as well would be Themselves, in b ...
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Well, You Needn’t By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
Rather than hold his hands properly arched off the keys, like cats with their backs up, Monk, playing block chords, hit the keys with his fingertips w ...
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Men at My Father’s Funeral By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
The ones his age who shook my hand on their way out sent fear along my arm like heroin.
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A Happy Childhood By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
I rise into adult air like a hollyhock, I’m so proud to be loved like this. Often I sing to myself all day like a fieldful of August insects, just thi ...
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The Search Party By William Matthews - Giggle Poems
I hoped my batteries had eight more lives than the lost child. Reader, by now you must be sure you know just where we are, deep in symbolic woods. I’m ...
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The Weakness By Toi Derricotte - Giggle Poems
That time my grandmother dragged me through the perfume aisles at Saks, she held me up by my arm, hissing, “Stand up,” through clenched teeth, her eye ...
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St. Peter Claver By Toi Derricotte - Giggle Poems
Miss Maturin made us fold our towels in a regulation square and nap on army cots. In blue pleated skirts, pants, and white shirts, we stood in line to ...
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The Minks By Toi Derricotte - Giggle Poems
My uncle would lift the roof like a god who might lift our roof, look down on us and take us out to safety. He would go down on his hands and knees, a ...
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Autobiography By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
I am leading a quiet life in Mike’s Place every day watching the champs of the Dante Billiard Parlor and the French pinball addicts. I am leading a qu ...
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I Genitori Perduti By Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Giggle Poems
The dove-white gulls on the wet lawn in Washington Square??? in the early morning fog each a little ghost in the gloaming Souls transmigrated maybe fr ...
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My Father in the Night Commanding No By Louis Simpson - Giggle Poems
Smoke issues from his lips; He reads in silence. And then my mother winds the gramophone; The Bride of Lammermoor begins to shriek— Or reads a story— ...
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Toward an Organic Philosophy By Kenneth Rexroth - Giggle Poems
I get up and walk off in the moonlight and each time I look back the red is deeper and the light smaller. Scorpio rises late with Mars caught in his c ...
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