May Swenson Green Poems

  • 1.
    Beards of water
    some of them have.
    Others are blowing whistles of water.
    Faces astonished that constant water
    ...
  • 2.
    What does love look like? We know
    the shape of death. Death is a cloud
    immense and awesome. At first a lid
    is lifted from the eye of light:
    ...
  • 3.
    Fruit without a stone, its shiny
    pulp is clear green. Inside, tiny
    black microdot seeds. Skin
    the color of khakiImagine
    ...
  • 4.
    Blue, but you are Rose, too,
    and buttermilk, but with blood
    dots showing through.
    A little salty your white
    ...
  • 5.
    My dumpy little mother on the undertaker's slab
    had a mannequin's grace. From chin to foot
    the sheet outlined her, thin and tall. Her face
    uptilted, bloodless, smooth, had a long smile.
    ...
Total 5 Green Poems by May Swenson

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Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.
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