Poems by Linda Pastan
Linda Pastan - Vermilion
... As if at the ritual moment of departure ...
Shadblow
... are swimming in our waters now,breaching the skin ...
Faith
... what you say about the size of the universe, ...
Elizabethan
... Could she have guessed that the words ...
Why Are Your Poems So Dark?
... And doesn't the white page  ...
The Safecracker
... with her rosy knees sealed tightly together,  ...
The Quarrel
... standing so upright, so unforgiving,  ...
Counting Backwards
... t guessed the destination&mdash ...
Agoraphobia
... It is not fear that holds me here but passion  ...
The Answering Machine
... for the accidental mercy of machines,  ...
Folk Tale
... they brought the cow into the house, straight from the barn,  ...
I Am Learning To Abandon the World
... I have given up melodic lines of hills, ...
The Months
... December The white dove of winter ...
On the Steps of the Jefferson Memorial
... Athena, the very mother of wisdom, ...
The Birds
... though we stand in our doorways ...