Poems by Billy Collins
By A Swimming Pool Outside Syracusa
... with greater gentleness, shall we say,or, to put it less literally, ...
Consolation
... It is enough to climb back into the caras if it were the great car of English itself ...
Shoveling Snow With Buddha
... that smile so wide it wraps itself around the waist of the universe ...
Dear Reader
... and with Yeats you lean against a broken pear tree, ...
Japan
... with the moth sleeping on its surface,and every time I say it, I feel the excruciating ...
Marginalia
... " "My man!" Check marks, asterisks, and exclamation points ...
The Iron Bridge
... while she scrubbed potatoes or shelled a bag of peas,the way I am keeping an eye on that cormorant ...
The Only Day In Existence
... the thin bedroom curtainsas the beginning of a lecture ...
Walking Across The Atlantic
... I feel the water holding up my shifting weight ...
Thesaurus
... Even their own relatives have to squint at their name tags ...
Neither Snow
... I thought as I wiped the fog from the glass,and me one of its protruding eyes, ...
I Go Back To The House For A Book
... slipping into his coat on the way out the door ...
I Chop Some Parsley While Listening To Art Blakey's Version Of "Three Blind Mice"
... If not, if each came to his or her blindness separately,how did they ever manage to find one another ...
Pinup
... exposing her long stockinged legs and yes the secret ...
Dharma
... would be, what a paragon of earthly detachment ...
