Poems by Mark Doty
Favrile
... to coloratura -- Jimmy weptat the world of tiny gestures, ...
A Display of Mackerel
... d prefer, plainly, to be flashing participants, ...
The Death of Antinoüs
... would speak. Or the statues might have been enough, ...
Difference
... or a plastic purse swallowing itself, ...
Golden Retrievals
... t think so. Bunny, tumbling leaf, a squirrel who&rsquo ...
Brian Age Seven
... He’s frail beside his relentless standard ...
Messiah (Christmas Portions)
... re a looming cloudbank of familiar angels: ...
Homo Will Not Inherit
... I’ve seen flame flicker around the edges of the body, ...
Ararat
... and there were two of every animal inside me ...
Atlantis
... And then there was this sensation of terrific pressure ...
Charlie Howard’s Descent
... s demands, and his earrings shone and his wrists ...
Sweet Machine
... on a yard of silvery muscle six feet from Seventh Avenue ...
Fog
... od if it weren'tso cold, the blue moon hugeand disruptive above the flowering crab'sfoaming collapse ...
Isis: Dorothy Eady, 1924
... ndered into English verse wrongly, though the audience accepts it,as they always have, and are moved ...
La Belle et la Bête
... kingdom itself, where nothing happens,but the approach to the kingdom:everything, the coming to love ...
