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Poems by Carolyn Kizer

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Poet's Household

... Revealing the neck’s white curve ...

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A Song for Muriel

... To be difficult and opaque!No-one explains me because ...

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American Beauty

... along the way; we got high all right, from animal pleasure in each other, ...

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Cultural Evolution

... When from his cave, young Mao in his youthful mind ...

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Days of 1986

... But his erotic obsession, condemned and strictly forbidden, ...

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Fearful Women

... Lock up your mate! Keep a submissive strangerlike Darby's Joan, content with church and Kinder, ...

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Mud Soup

... Add the bayleaf, cloves in cheesecloth, ...

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On a Line From Valery (Gulf War)

... Our crops of wheat have turned to fields of tares ...

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On a Line from Valéry (The Gulf War)

... Our crops of wheat have turned to fields of tares ...

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Parent's Pantoum

... They don't see that we've become their mirrors,We offspring of our enormous children ...

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Reunion

... Still luminous with your passion to instruct, ...

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The Intruder

... Closed on the soiled webs, growling, took them out to the back stoop ...

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The Ungrateful Garden

... But damned to hell the out-of-doorsWhere blazing motes of sun impaled ...