Robert Pinsky Mother Poems
- 1. The Green Piano
Aeolian. Gratis. Great thunderer, half-ton infant of miracles
Torn free of charge from the universe by my mother's will.
You must have amazed that half-respectable street
... - 2. Poem With Refrains
The opening scene. The yellow, coal-fed fog
Uncurling over the tainted city river,
A young girl rowing and her anxious father
Scavenging for corpses. Funeral meats. The clever
... - 3. Impossible To Tell
to Robert Hass and in memory of Elliot Gilbert
Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn,
... - 4. Essay On Psychiatrists
I. Invocation
Itâ??s crazy to think one could describe themâ??
Calling on reason, fantasy, memory, eves and earsâ??
... - 5. Samurai Song
When I had no roof I made
Audacity my roof. When I had
No supper my eyes dined.
... - 6. To Television
Not a "window on the world"
But as we call you,
A box a tube
... - 7. Ode To Meaning
Dire one and desired one,
Savior, sentencer--
In an old allegory you would carry
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