Earth hard to my heels
bear me up like a child
standing on its mother's belly.
I am a surprised guest to the air

(C) David Ignatow
04/02/2017


Best Poems of David Ignatow

• Two Friends
• Midnight
• An Illusion
• Play Again
• The Journey
• Listening
• The Bagel
• For My Daughter
• Dilemma
• I Dream
• Coupling
• Self-employed: For Harvey Shapiro
• Melpomene In Manhattan
• If We Could Be Brought
• My Skeleton, My Rival
• Moving Picture
• Against The Evidence
• I Close My Eyes
• Permanence
• Here In Bed