Poems by David Lehman
January 24
... The cabs were on strike on Broadway so beautiful ...
Ode To Pornography
... the other is disbelieved, perennial virgin, ...
Sestina
... You bring in your car for an oil change, thinking, this place has the aura ...
To The Author Of Glare
... leading to you, wou would be my fatherif this were a dream and I on the verge of waking up somewhere ...
February 23
... but calm is the corner of 8th Street and Second Avenue ...
To William Holden
... in those POW movies with brutal ...
A Quick One Before I Go
... like a pronoun out of step with all the other ...
July 12
... meanwhile the Yankees are playing like the Bronx Bombers of old ...
Twelfth Night
... Later, the boy found outHe was born three months earlier than the date ...
March 30
... we're not still in college it's just a cup of coffee ...
Eleventh Hour
... Was current as of 1968 and no one speaks that way except ...
August 15
... com Michael Douglas will play the lead with Sandra ...
October 12
... " "I like a man who knows what he wants" "Well, I'll ...
Fifth Amendment
... In Brooklyn, borough of churches, with the pigeons on the sill ...
Wittgenstein's Ladder
... nonsensical, when he has used them -- as steps -- to climb ...
