Stories Collection

  1. The grammatical rules of this language can be learned in one sitting. Nouns have no g...
  2. With luck you'll live a hundred years, Enough to harvest ten centuries' griefs. Remem...
  3. We had been camping for a week. Three people were missing, and several others were ba...
  4. three poems Copyright World Poetry, Incorporated Jul/Aug 2003 Provided by ProQuest ...
  5. eleven poems translated, from the Spanish, by John Felstiner It so happens I'm tired ...
  6. The poor live on low ground waiting for the river to rise one night and sweep them ou...
  7. THE FIRST DAY I MET THE NOW 99-YEAR-OLD Carl Rakosi, his companion Marilyn Kane came ...
  8. two poems Whenever I visit my birthplace, the City of Brotherly Love, where my brothe...
  9. eleven poems versions, from the Chinese, by Peter Stombler Life, that inebriate, stum...
  10. four poems (the filming of Bahama Passage, Salt Cay, 1941) Copyright World Poetry, ...
  11. I WENT TO VISIT TED WEISS AND HIS WIFE, Renee, in early April of this year. At eighty...
  12. Spain was taut and dry, diurnal drum with an opaque tone, prairie and eagle's nest, s...
  13. Snowbound, shaggy, and stark, America's harsh cordillera, a planet: there lies the bl...
  14. When I rose from the ditch I left a swift petal in lieu of presence where I found yo...
  15. sketch 1 I'm in Vermont the Green Mountain State to do some sketching. The first whit...
  16. How pitiful, people bobbing through life, Adrift, scratching their days on the aimles...
  17. For two years and several months now, since the medicolocrats opened my chest with a ...
  18. Cortes has no people, is a cold beam, heart dead in the armor. Fruitful lands, my Lor...
  19. seven poems I got a call from the White House, from the President himself, asking me ...
  20. Its tear coursed through our inelegant wires. It darkened what had faded, mottled the...
  21. THE de STIJL ROOM in a roped-off alcove a wooden chair hand-made easy to take apart a...
  22. In my country bumpkin village, I am known as nonpareil. Yesterday, in town, the city ...
  23. THE ARTISTIC LIFE BEGINS IN INSTINCT AND moves towards calculation; or maybe, it begi...
  24. (Salt Cay, Turks & Caicos) Copyright World Poetry, Incorporated Jul/Aug 2003 Provid...
  25. THIS IS THE NINTH AND LAST OF THESE LITTLE essays. Time to rest now, and just enough ...
  26. You'll ask: And where are the lilacs? The metaphysics matted with poppies? The rain t...
  27. A man named Owen Metcalf approached me and said that, for one thousand dollars, he wo...
  28. Even if you're a strong-armed warrior, Or one whose slightest touch masters horses, Y...
  29. Thanks to the new beaver dam, Mr. Foley's yard was flooding. He was furious and calle...
  30. Spider webs are scarier when you have a mortal disease somehow. The stupid indelibili...
  31. It is desirable, at certain times of day or night, to look deeply at objects in repos...
  32. Finally the President, as I saw him, the indomitable Yankee, his lips sealed tighter ...
  33. In my next sketch he's climbing up a low incline: lawyer, councilman, city solicitor,...
  34. Consider Seng-yu, so adept You expect eyes at his fingertips. What wasn't real under ...
  35. Lucinda said she was going to take a shower. I said, "Do you mind if I watch?" She lo...
  36. Who isn't a stranger collating stones, a professional examiner of canceled stamps. A ...
  37. The calamity at Babel aside, the science of the greater and of the lesser lights asid...
  38. These lawn chairs and the chaise lounge of bulky redwood were purchased for my father...
  39. 2. My heart broke like a stone, thrown. Or maybe this will help you to understand: Th...
  40. NEARLY ALL THE BOOK-LENGTH POEMS OF A. R. Ammons were written on adding machine tape ...
  41. He takes her on a date-a "date," a "surprise!"- But nothing's planned. It's just anot...
  42. My dogs are pulling me around the block, Mailbox by mailbox. Their sense of smell is ...
  43. What I remember about going through bypass surgery is trying to steel-jacket myself w...
  44. She had on wonderful clothes, as usual. -Constance Sitwell (cousin) A little blonde i...
  45. That Which Came of Nothing Coming Always -for Tina I have been hearing the wind in th...
  46. Foolish, frugal Mrs. Mousie, why would you accept our generous offer, why trust our l...
  47. Our neighbor's slim rag doll of a daughter (not, we're told, of his own getting) brea...
  48. 4 A.M. I go outside. It's morning but it's still night. Night-morning, I like that ve...
  49. Sometimes I had the feeling of someone choking me. I would lose my breath to a phanto...
  50. -for surgeon Baron Hamman I always figured if everyone sent me prayers at once, I'd f...
  51. 1. The truth of us helps the stillness outside be in- stressed. You can't reach it bu...
  52. -January 3, 1943 You threw the red and white saddle blanket into the black berth and ...
  53. Gift Horizon Turn the head of the bird he says and dies, leaving us in the rain and h...
  54. When I built my dream-house I didn't replace the builder's soil with loam, so the ros...
  55. A dream is a place to return to Like the apartment where it happened, As if revisitin...
  56. My students look up at me introducing myself as "Professor Myers" who will show them ...
  57. Certain parts of your body, don't you just want to cut them off, they're so disgustin...
  58. It was the dingiest bird you ever saw, all the color washed from him, as if he had be...
  59. As the day-laborers in our loft pried loose the hand-split, slivery lath, the gray, u...
  60. CONFESSIONAL POETS ARE GETTING A BUM rap. Billy Collins, appointed poet laureate in t...
  61. He carried a sense of himself the way a dromedary hobbling over sand dunes can't keep...
  62. I reconnect by letting go and soar out of myself into the fullness of everything I've...
  63. My ego likes to think of himself in charge of me, but he's only a star-spangled mouse...
  64. My wife says that the two guys on TV say that the most important thing is changing th...
  65. says so much: the idea! the picture: at night alone walking the rows listening watchi...
  66. I spent half my life talking to you and I never got an answer. That's a kind of saili...
  67. There's so much more belief than truth, and, that is lucky in a way, belief inclining...
  68. If you think I'm going to raise one single frosted martini glass or a rocks tumbler i...
  69. between the car and door in the dark I look up to find the great river of the Milky W...
  70. You can say you've downsized, pink-slipped each other, trimmed back to fighting weigh...
  71. KIM ADDONIZIO'S books include Tell Me (BOA Editions), which was a National Book Award...
  72. Here's a sad song for you- What happened was the man had to-. . . There was the wife ...
  73. hears the rain inside of silence and the silence inside of rain. Wetness and dryness ...
  74. Smoking a cigarette, sipping black coffee, watching the sun rise, I pretend I'm dead ...
  75. I built a ladder in the sky out of my life. But there was nowhere to step off. Who's ...
  76. -for N. L. It was something about the mustard colored Chevrolet streaking along the d...
  77. -for Lukeon I. We will not speak of these snowy Hopi orchards again. Though, the snow...
  78. Gypsum When You Arrive For just as there is alabaster in the market-place there is th...
  79. SARAH MANGUSO is the author of The Captain Lands in Paradise (Alice James Books, 2002...
  80. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger was not a good time in my life. I wasn't a you...
  81. 1. AS SHATTERED NOTES PLUNGE the catchall of silence, urges-gestures-emerge along plo...
  82. The "I Used To Be (Blank) But Now I Am (Blank) Exercise" seemed like a great idea for...
  83. In later life she made a lot of what she christened her "Bastille." -The Sitwells: A ...
  84. To complete the thought. . . the day grows dark, and at the top, where the candlestic...
  85. Atlantic City on a beach Sunday, The Great Depression like Mount Palomar's dome Shutt...
  86. Labyrinth Tomorrow,-by reason of rapture. Rapture-by reason of pain. There is tomorro...
  87. Before the First Errand (-which was her life on earth) there were the practice moment...
  88. She never even asked him not to paint them, she knows no-point-in-asking when she see...
  89. Come live with me and be my last Resource, location and resort, My workday's focus an...
  90. Everything effervesces with change, even remembering who you are, by what secret oath...
  91. Sometimes I feel mother and father are watching me, listening to my thoughts, gigglin...
  92. I said I don't want to be older, but it's be older and older or nothing, right: and d...
  93. So I said to the short order cook (because I think he owns the joint) what did Santa ...
  94. WE CAN NOW ADD TO THE ALLEGED ANTI-Semitism implied in Amiri Baraka's poem "Somebody ...
  95. of what happened is not in language- of this much I am certain. Six degrees south. Si...
  96. I no longer speak in human languages. I'm free as a fax message. Legible or illegible...
  97. The wind strove As if by complicity the mares the carriage the lantern, Bronze tattoo...
  98. Lying here together goes back so far. . . . it becomes still more difficult to find w...
  99. Every spark of likelihood has gone as Jennet said. The morning came and went, but you...
  100. a lotus grows in my throat it is blue i feel it blossom as an old woman feeds me suga...
  101. If there were such a place as a shame place, he'd owe so much rent in shame he'd even...
  102. His almost mother And his (this) father Ensnarled think, Fear. Fear on this fabulous ...
  103. Laurie Anderson had a bad night. Her bare arms gave the impression of cul-de-sacs in ...
  104. I seriously lacked a theory I knew not how to find the easy way out I could see there...
  105. The sorrow of a horse standing in a stable goes on Night and day. The plane that cras...
  106. Taxpayers, draftees, the music in our heads sounds good enough, a bumping book bag sl...
  107. For my mother 1. The gynecologist who examined your womb wrote in your file: Total Pr...
  108. The embers, the broom, the bread crumbs ignored by the sparrows -are the stream of co...
  109. No cat nor Maxfield's dreamy games will Tend the shop of coarse antiques, its wooden ...
  110. I know they feed they lion who buzzes like a harrier Flapping its wings. This "existe...
  111. after Cavafy That their statues are broken, that the temples are empty doesn't mean t...
  112. There was breathing but there were no bodies Anywhere to be found & so we switched ou...
  113. They dropped me in the driveway but I couldn't make it. through the door. In the morn...
  114. Everybody singing, standing, sinking, un- touchable, uncertain, afraid of air, feelin...
  115. John departs for his studio, its walls circular as prayer, lined with images of his f...
  116. My body worn out from it every night. He comes in wearing his tux. He takes it off. N...
  117. translated, from the Macedonian, by Ljubica Arsovska and Peggy Reid A Special APZ Sup...
  118. Everything Plato ever started should Because of his chains remain in the purely Skept...
  119. I took to a "Second Hand" my view in the future but nobody would buy it. The net is p...
  120. What's apropos? nothing common as sarcoma, Or decimated liver. It must be disgusting ...
  121. O, this is a time when the Afghan and the snowboard And virgin souls drinking the swe...
  122. We'd incorporated a laundry lending motion Detector into the third figure without suc...
  123. On my birthday I come in from hiding in the cold sand under the house where I've been...
  124. When we asked they said you never came here, silent crawler long banished from waysid...
  125. translated, from the Hebrew, by Lisa Katz "The afternoon darkens, and you are only tw...
  126. The wife says hello to the dog. Hello dog. Hello dog. Hello dog. That there is no dog...
  127. Me: a youngish woman who smells of libraries; whose father sits in a study lined with...
  128. The series of doors opening. Through the last, a glimpse of blue bedroom- and beyond,...
  129. A single wire hanger on a nail by itself Isn't bad though a stack of them on a floor ...
  130. In December 1978, two members of a three-person committee voted to give the year's Pu...
  131. How dirty your feet are, A., I could plant basil in them, and even rape could take ro...
  132. After culinary whorls, prolonged intimacies . . . Sucking, smacking of two vacuums co...
  133. "Ambling with intent not pursuant to criminal acts." Poe ambling through streets of B...
  134. Our grieving games commenced in the fall & the competition's remained fierce all Thro...
  135. I've been meaning to speak to you about my eyes as they seem to be going what you mig...
  136. What should we call them, shy as visions, storm-bent, who seem hurt creatures in cupp...
  137. We needed water & frozen water for the party. I chose you to two-step with but the do...
  138. You have a sense of direction even in worlds you've never visited, A. You can tell wh...
  139. I'm Hermes speeding in the night of puffballs, hair and teeth. The blonde twig that f...
  140. I could not lie like you among blossoms and paper butterflies. I could not offer my b...
  141. At the wedding the guests threw so much confetti and coins on the bride, that from th...
  142. "Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green." -Henry David Thoreau, A Week...
  143. The tall accordion is privy to the magician's chest which contains Not merely a heart...
  144. Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? You asked, because you were Vladimir And i...
  145. This letter a paper headstone lifting up from the book of a grave, its script, crimpe...
  146. Groggy as souls just arrived at Milan's airport, we wave to a sad-eyed native holding...
  147. I'm tired of checking the calendar. My mother died 18 months ago. Aunt Rae's yahrzeit...
  148. The monster is sitting next to me, and it's so crowded in there, the membrane between...
  149. You know Virginie what it seems: like congenital disease. Stuffed up the nose the ret...
  150. translated, from the Slovenian, by Ana Jelnikar and Christopher Merrill Sometimes at ...
  151. Yet to see furtively into a future had been Forbidden them in their rigorous carpe di...
  152. Fat twists down a rope like suet at the flaming end of the world. There must have be...
  153. Gloved and masked, the workman sawed at her under a harsh light. Tufts of hair, tin-...
  154. The pretty woman with a prisoner number, CDCP *****, written in ballpoint on the pal...
  155. He has taken ether and peyote, but he cannot hear the song. He has clothed himself i...
  156. An Interview by Thom Tammaro and Kristin Garaas THOM TAMMARO: So, Marvin, Nightworks...
  157. The sum of one's work coming down to a step into a room and across cracker crumbs i...
  158. Towards the end of the heat-waved, smarmy summer of 2002 (Is it global warming? Could...
  159. Today we will find our art hand- and wind-tossed. Outdoors, face up, in the rain. G...
  160. Politics is the struggle for existence. -Wallace Stevens If I had to think of someo...
  161. Years Ago the Magpie Journeyed Years ago the magpie journeyed To my window. I didn't...
  162. Touch with your finger the left side of my chest I hunch to protect the side that h...
  163. The Off-Season By the sea, sea oats have been planted; on the sidewalk, a sandwich ...
  164. Once you start telling the story, You can't stop or it will turn out As badly as a ...
  165. I would be thick soft fleece around your shoulders your ill heart at Avenal a circ...
  166. We didn't know each other, only what we ourselves hardly knew, though they hurt us,...
  167. Having made a woman out of wood, he draws a bow across her hips. In the darkness tha...
  168. Buoyant to look upon this illustration. The smeared red boat at shore's edge drawn a...
  169. A whisper within an ordinary parting, a sigh nesting in a word, it comes inside ano...
  170. The grain of the wood tidemarks on the beach galaxies fingerprints The spark insi...
  171. The heroine needs saving, shucks. Vaguely Eastern European men in an isolated cabin ...
  172. My dark advisor whispers me From sleep to sleep. I listen hard. It's terrible to have...
  173. In the tiny window for December asst, the shortest day, a little soldier, puppet on...
  174. The history of this moment lengthens in shadow. Trying to see the past, the light fr...
  175. Simply by thinking I stood among the clouds. They surrounded and passed me, being and...
  176. I have lived in your face. Have I been you? Your mother? giving you birth -this pa...
  177. Do you remember? my mouth black and blue from your starved mouth-- I didn't know anyt...
  178. They say to eat your peas or the children will starve in Somalia and the Sudan. Europ...
  179. Snake tick black widow brown recluse -The truck last night on 79 dragging a chain...
  180. I told them it was powerful, don't go. I told them it was much more than they imagin...
  181. I was not, in the beginning of time, a head on a plate. I was a foot that wriggled a...
  182. A-one and a-two and a-three The terriers join the chorus, The summer's final orchest...
  183. A weed green with a black shadow village under it and then browngray dirt then a brow...
  184. Your red eye-- soap, you said -injury? and the darkness around your eye and down...
  185. The girl in the red jumpsuit and her flabby ass moved o She went medieval, she went ...
  186. Not temperance or etiquette, but heavy petting. Not modesty, but the sweaty chase me...
  187. dear Walt, kind uncle, its near two years since I left Armory Sq. & I'm home now. Th...
  188. --for Cecilia Until canaries carry away a mountain on their backs, until gnomes dec...
  189. (1) Oh, we cavort. A little less poise, please. The shower-crud, the plangent peoni...
  190. I'm high most of the time on hallucinogenic fumes. Fumes pursue me, unfurling from t...
  191. Today the windy Italian air was clean as the air of Montauk, I walked through a huge...
  192. Maybe two men are there talking about their guns and trying to decide what to do next...
  193. Who wouldn't heave a careless sigh? A terror upheld in sorrow, in rye, invaded th...
  194. An Offer Received in this Mornings Mail: (On misreading an ad for a set of CDs entit...
  195. If Walt Whitman were alive and young and still living in Brooklyn, he would have see...
  196. So now you want to learn? Well, then, we'll start with some statistics. First, you w...
  197. Know, my dears, that gravity is conditional. Its grip is no stranglehold. Had my mo...
  198. My son carries my ghost on his shoulder, a falcon, I am careful not to dig in my cla...
  199. The young man devoted to the destruction of mystery is like the younger man who crusa...