Tag Archives: Poetry
Friday poetry: Two short ones featuring food
Haiku Ambulance Richard Brautigan (1950) A piece of green pepper fell off the wooden salad bowl: so what? This is just to say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for … Continue reading
Friday poetry classics: John Donne, The Flea
The Flea John Donne Mark but this flea, and mark in this How little that which thou deniest me is; It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And this flea our two bloods mingled be. Thou knowest that this … Continue reading
Poetry Friday: On Discovering a Butterfly (Vladimir Nabokov)
I found it and I named it, being versed in taxonomic Latin; thus became godfather to an insect and its first describer – and I want no other fame. Wide open on its pin (though fast asleep), and safe from … Continue reading
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Snowpocalypse Stanzas
The time has come, the weatherman says To indulge in snowy puns To speak of the “snowpocalypse” As snow pours down in tons. Just when we think the storm has passed, Another squall, it comes! Supplies and things have gotten … Continue reading
Ode to the Discount Liquor Store in My Neighborhood
Whole Foods’s shelves were all too early bare, But as til Thursday we will be snowed in, Bare shelves could not stop me from going there. To be quite frank I went for just one thing – I wanted bourbon … Continue reading
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On the Wires
Lifted whole cloth from Freespace, where I loved Prof. Sandefeur’s Friday Poetry today. It’s bizarre but I’ve read this poem before! In college, when I was studying Descartes’s moth narratives in the “sentience” classes for my Philosophy major (perhaps needless … Continue reading
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