Opera Singer
“Today my heart is so goddamned fat with grief
that I’ve begun hauling it in a wheelbarrow. “
Posts Tagged "poem"
Barbershop Quartet, East Village Grille
“Inside the standard lunch hour din they rise, four
seamless voices fused into one, floating somewhere
between a low hum and a vibration, like the sound
of a train rumbling beneath noisy traffic.”
Dog in Bed
“Nose tucked under tail,
you are a warm, furred planet
centered in my bed.”
Thanks
“Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you”
The Robots Are Coming
“O, great nation, it won’t be pretty.
What land will we now barter
for our lives?”
Ode I. 11
“Leucon, no one’s allowed to know his fate,
Not you, not me: don’t ask, don’t hunt for answers
In tea leaves or palms.”
The Library of Babel
“While there is still some light
on the page, I am writing now
a history of snow, of everything”
Song
“Some claim the origin of song
was a war cry
some say it was a rhyme
telling the farmers when to plant and reap”
Why Do We Set the Table?
“At what temperature does blood
begin to boil? Thicken into a
roux, slip between bits of
basil, minced garlic,
orecchiette;”
The Love Ridge Loop
“In disregard of the signs,
no one bothers
with leashes,
dogs barreling unbounded
over every grooved path.”
Beachcomber Nocturne
“Pink seafoam leaves odd gifts for me to find:
a puffed-up man-o-war, a mermaid’s purse,
empty lady slippers, Sargasso weed,
as if these things could fill my human needs.”
Bobby
“All the actors from the sitcoms
I watched as a child are dead.”
The Birthday of the World
“No, this year I want to call
myself to task for what
I have done and not done
for peace. How much have
I dared in opposition?”
Scarf
“Whoever claims beauty
lies in the eye
of the beholder”
Alone with the Goddess
by Linda Gregg The young men ride their horses fast on the wet sand of Parangtritis. Back and forth, with the water sliding up to them and away. This is the sea where the goddess lives, angry, her lover taken away. Don’t wear red, don’t wear green here, the people say. Do not swim in the sea. Give her an…