Poems by James Tate
The Definition of Gardening
... where not desired, with gloved hands, poisonous, ...
The Lost Pilot
... I would touch your face as a disinterested ...
A Vagabond
... s testify against his thimble, and moderate his gloves ...
Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers
... But today with our cameras cocked we had to ...
The Blue Booby
... Also, the males do not ...
On the Subject of Doctors
... " Hell no, they'd rather be playing golf ...
The Motorcyclists
... Do you like fireworks, I mean not just on the 4th of July, ...
Fuck the Astronauts
... where the stars have drowned in their dark petticoats ...
The Wheelchair Butterfly
... s heart may slumber and snore, where bifocals bulge ...
The New Chinese Fiction
... The little house they sat in produced simple people, ...
The Search for Lost Lives
... It was like something I had known in another life, even if ...
The Cowboy
... in possession of an extraterrestrial being, and I thought I knew who ...
A Wedding
... He was an aspiring philosopher of dubious potential, ...
Poem to Some of My Recent Poems
... But you are beautiful, and I, a slave to a heap of cinders ...
The Workforce
... We have maps of the mountains but we lack maps of the underworld ...
