REFRIGERATOR POEMS

Thousand Star Hotel, Hanoi

I.

Over the road from the three star Galaxy Hotel is our hotel,
the old park on Phan Dinh Phung Street,
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S. K. Kelen

Deep In Our Refrigerator

Deep in our refrigerator,
there's a special place
for food that's been around awhile...
we keep it, just in case.
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Jack Prelutsky

Climbing You

I want to understand the steep thing
that climbs ladders in your throat.
I can't make sense of you.
Everywhere I look you're there--
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Erica Jong

Jack Blizzard

Open the refrigerator & it laughs
Look outside at the white fire
Twirling above an exploding deep freeze
White whirl upward, upward
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S. K. Kelen

A Supermarket In California

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the
streets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.

In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit
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Allen Ginsberg

The Death Of Allegory

I am wondering what became of all those tall abstractions
that used to pose, robed and statuesque, in paintings
and parade about on the pages of the Renaissance
displaying their capital letters like license plates.
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Billy Collins

White China Plates I

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The moon hummed like a refrigerator,
light thru shadows
- the solitude of dusk closing in;
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Paul Cameron Brown

The Last Winter

People are sending and receiving gifts and letters
Some are visiting their loved ones in late December
It is the coldest but happiest season of the year

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Marlon Pitter

Writer's Block

I’m trying to think of something to write,
But the words aren’t coming to mind
A blank page is on the computer screen
The wireless keyboard is sitting idle
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Marlon Pitter