Dana Gioia Small Poems

  • 1.
    Now you hear what the house has to say.
    Pipes clanking, water running in the dark,
    the mortgaged walls shifting in discomfort,
    and voices mounting in an endless drone
    ...
  • 2.
    If ever we see those gardens again,
    The summer will be goneâ??at least our summer.
    Some other mockingbird will concertize
    Among the mulberries, and other vines
    ...
  • 3.
    This is the hall of broken limbs
    Where splintered marble athletes lie
    Beside the arms of cherubim.
    Nothing is ever thrown away.
    ...
  • 4.
    The flowers sent here by mistake,
    signed with a name that no one knew,
    are turning bad. What shall we do?
    Our neighbor says they're not for her,
    ...
  • 5.
    Echo of the clocktower, footstep
    in the alleyway, sweep
    of the wind sifting the leaves.

    ...
Total 5 Small Poems by Dana Gioia

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