Animal poems

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The Animals

© Edwin Muir

They do not live in the world,
Are not in time and space.
From birth to death hurled
No word do they have, not one
To plant a foot upon,
Were never in any place.

Meditatio

© Ezra Pound

When I carefully consider the curious habits of dogs
I am compelled to conclude
That man is the superior animal.

Septuagesima

© John Burnside

I dream of the silence
the day before Adam came
to name the animals,

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Now you have read them all; or if not all,
As many as in all conscience I should fancy
To be enough. There are no more of them

John Gorham

© Edwin Arlington Robinson

Tell me what youre doing over here, John Gorham,
Sighing hard and seeming to be sorry when youre not;
Make me laugh or let me go now, for long faces in the moonlight
Are a sign for me to say again a word that you forgot.

Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford

© Edwin Arlington Robinson

You are a friend then, as I make it out,
Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us
Will put an ass's head in Fairyland
As he would add a shilling to more shillings,

Notes For The Legend Of Salad Woman

© Michael Ondaatje

On our last day in Eden as we walked out
she nibbled the leaves at her breasts and crotch.
But there's none to touch
none to equal
the Chlorophyll Kiss

Bearhug

Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight
I yell ok. Finish something I'm doing,
then something else, walk slowly round
the corner to my son's room.
He is standing arms outstretched
waiting for a bearhug. Grinning.

Feeling Fucked Up

Lord she's gone done left me done packed / up and split
and I with no way to make her
come back and everywhere the world is bare
bright bone white crystal sand glistens