Poems by Carolyn Kizer
Poet's Household
... Revealing the necks white curve ...
A Song for Muriel
... To be difficult and opaque!No-one explains me because ...
American Beauty
... along the way; we got high all right, from animal pleasure in each other, ...
Cultural Evolution
... When from his cave, young Mao in his youthful mind ...
Days of 1986
... But his erotic obsession, condemned and strictly forbidden, ...
Fearful Women
... Lock up your mate! Keep a submissive strangerlike Darby's Joan, content with church and Kinder, ...
Mud Soup
... Add the bayleaf, cloves in cheesecloth, ...
On a Line From Valery (Gulf War)
... Our crops of wheat have turned to fields of tares ...
On a Line from Valéry (The Gulf War)
... Our crops of wheat have turned to fields of tares ...
Parent's Pantoum
... They don't see that we've become their mirrors,We offspring of our enormous children ...
Reunion
... Still luminous with your passion to instruct, ...
The Intruder
... Closed on the soiled webs, growling, took them out to the back stoop ...
The Ungrateful Garden
... But damned to hell the out-of-doorsWhere blazing motes of sun impaled ...