Dana Gioia Water Poems

  • 1.
    All afternoon my brothers and I have worked in the orchard,
    Digging this hole, laying you into it, carefully packing the soil.
    Rain blackened the horizon, but cold winds kept it over the Pacific,
    And the sky above us stayed the dull gray
    ...
  • 2.
    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
    ...
  • 3.
    This is a litany of lost things,
    a canon of possessions dispossessed,
    a photograph, an old address, a key.
    It is a list of words to memorize
    ...
  • 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.
    Money is a kind of poetry.
    - Wallace Stevens

    Money, the long green,
    ...
  • 6.
    She makes her way through the dark trees
    Down to the lake to be alone.
    Following their voices on the breeze,
    She makes her way. Through the dark trees
    ...
Total 6 Water Poems by Dana Gioia

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