The sting of bees took away my father who walked …
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Lady Lazarus
I have done it again. One year in every ten …
Read Poem »Kindness
Kindness glides about my house. Dame Kindness, she is so …
Read Poem »Jilted
My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, …
Read Poem »Insomniac
The night is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, …
Read Poem »Incommunicado
The groundhog on the mountain did not run But fatly …
Read Poem »In Plaster
I shall never get out of this! There are two …
Read Poem »I Want, I Want
Open-mouthed, the baby god Immense, bald, though baby-headed, Cried out …
Read Poem »I Am Vertical
But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a …
Read Poem »Heavy Woman
Irrefutable, beautifully smug As Venus, pedestalled on a half-shell Shawled …
Read Poem »Hardcastle Crags
Flintlike, her feet struck Such a racket of echoes from …
Read Poem »Gulliver
Over your body the clouds go High, high and icily …
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