poems
my taste in poetry goes absolutely everywhere so i could never hope to make a page representing a particular genre. i couldn't list all my favorites, either. instead i've made a list of the poems which have taken a particular significance for me within the last seven months or so.
not waving but drowning...stevie smith

tulips...sylvia plath


a flower given to my daughter...james joyce

i'm ceded--i've stopped being theirs...emily dickinson


to have and not hold...marge piercy


peace...gerard manley hopkins

ash wednesday...t.s. eliot

dover beach...matthew arnold

stanza 54 of in memoriam...alfred, lord tennyson


song...christina rossetti

hymn to proserpine...algernon charles swinburne

deadwood...kathryn stripling byer

the disappearances...vijay seshadri

try to praise the mutilated world...adam zagajewski
pansies, that's for thoughts...
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