May Swenson Open Poems

  • 1.
    Beards of water
    some of them have.
    Others are blowing whistles of water.
    Faces astonished that constant water
    ...
  • 2.
    I like being in your apartment, and not disturbing anything.
    As in the woods I wouldn't want to move a tree,
    or change the play of sun and shadow on the ground.

    ...
  • 3.
    Little lion face
    I stopped to pick
    among the mass of thick
    succulent blooms, the twice
    ...
  • 4.
    The flag is folded
    lengthwise, and lengthwise again,
    folding toward the open edge,
    so that the union of stars on the blue
    ...
  • 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.
    ...
  • 6.
    A mouth. Can blow or breathe,
    be a funnel, or Hello.

    A grass blade or a cut.
    ...
Total 6 Open Poems by May Swenson

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How Human Nature dotes
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