Dana Gioia Summer Poems

  • 1.
    Walking down the garden path
    From the house you do not own,
    Once again you think of how
    Cool the autumns were at home.
    ...
  • 2.
    Do not expect that if your book falls open
    to a certain page, that any phrase
    you read will make a difference today,
    or that the voices you might overhear
    ...
  • 3.
    If ever we see those gardens again,
    The summer will be goneĆ¢??at least our summer.
    Some other mockingbird will concertize
    Among the mulberries, and other vines
    ...
  • 4.
    I can imagine someone who found
    these fields unbearable, who climbed
    the hillside in the heat, cursing the dust,
    cracking the brittle weeds underfoot,
    ...
  • 5.
    The ceremonies of the day have ceased,
    Abandoned to the ragged crow's parade.
    The flags unravel in the caterpillar's feast.
    The wreaths collapse onto the stones they shade.
    ...
  • 6.
    We stood on the rented patio
    While the party went on inside.
    You knew the groom from college.
    I was a friend of the bride.
    ...
Total 6 Summer Poems by Dana Gioia

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