Poems by Howard Nemerov
Magnitudes
... It has to do With catastrophic change, and with the limit ...
The Painter Dreaming in the Scholar’s House
... IV These thoughts have chiefly been about the painter Klee, ...
Life Cycle of Common Man
... ” Consider the courage in all that, and behold the man ...
Writing
... all day across the lake, scoring their white ...
The Town Dump
... s having left Derelict chairs which will turn out to be ...
The Consent
... and if this Can happen thus, what race shall be exempt ...
The Brief Journey West
... When schoolgirls pass, what whispers of their skirts, ...
The Murder of William Remington
... Be quarried of one stone, lest righteous and high ...
Political Reflection
... Though the cage fret kings, you may make free with it ...
The View from an Attic Window
... And headless, hanging dresses swayed like drunks ...
The Vacuum
... t bear To see the bag swell like a belly, eating the dust ...
Money
... Relations with liberty are maintained with reservations, ...
The Icehouse in Summer
... s bite was rounded out, and the horse and rider drowned ...
To David, About His Education
... For these And the like reasons, you have to go to school ...
To the Mannequins
... So that you are no good to anybody&mdash ...
