#Americans #Jews #Women
Again & again I have read your books without ever wishing to know you. I suck the alphabet of blood. I chew the iron filings of your wo…
The lover in these poems is me; the doctor, Love. He appears
Not wanting to write for fear that anything– the passion for the page, the love of carbon ribbons & e… will distract me from your face,
Baby-witch, my daughter, my worship of the Goddess alone condemns you to the fire. . .
Endless duplication of lives and o… —Theodore Roethke I have known the imperial power of… the awesome indifference of recept… I have been intimidated by desk &a…
People who live by the sea understand eternity. They copy the curves of the waves, their hearts beat with the tides, & the saltiness of their blood
She left him in death’s egg, the bone sack & the gunny sack… the bag of down & feathers-all… Somehow he couldn’t get back. It was night,
Unable to bear the uncertainty of the future, we consulted seers, mediums, stock market gurus,
You hate the telephone but will not see me face to face so I am left beseeching you
If you ask him he will talk for ho… how at fourteen he hammered signs,… raw with cold, and later painted b… in ladies’ boudoirs; how he played… for two weeks in jail, and lived o…
All night he lies awake tuning the… tuning the night with its fat crac… with its melancholy love songs cro… across the rainy air above Verdun & the autobahn’s blue suicidal…
You call me courageous, I who grew up gnawing on books, as some kids
For a long time unhappy with my man, I blamed men, blamed marriage, blamed the whole bleeding world,
What is the central passion of a life? To please mummy & daddy? To find a home for their furniture… To found a family of one’s own,
Dearest man-in-the-moon, ever since our lunch of cheese & moonjuice on the far side of the sun, I have walked the craters of New…