Poetry: The Armful

The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns, Extremes too hard to comprehend at once. Yet nothing I should care to…

Poetry: Failing and Flying

Failing and Flying –Jack Gilbert from Refusing Heaven Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It’s the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it…

Poetry: Jack + Judy

Jack + Judy –Doreen Fitzgerald From Cake: Selected Poems She was stuck on him like a three-cent stamp on a postcard showing a roadside diner shaped like a hat; stuck like a stool on a chrome stem waiting to swivel…

Poetry: Thus Spake the Mockingbird

Thus Spake the Mockingbird –Barbara Hamby From Babel The mockingbird says, Hallelujah, coreopsis, I make the day      bright, I wake the night-blooming jasmine. I am the duodecimo of desperate love, the hocus-pocus passion      flower of delirious retribution. You never saw…

Poetry: Benediction

Benediction –Stanley Kunitz From The Collected Poems God banish from your house The fly, the roach, the mouse That riots in the walls Until the plaster falls; Admonish from your door The hypocrite and liar; No shy, soft, tigrish fear…

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