WOMAN 1: They couldn’t have dreamt
of such riches for us:
chocolate fountains
in aisle seventeen,
tonics to cure cholera,
syphilis, gout, melancholy.
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WOMAN 1: They couldn’t have dreamt
of such riches for us:
chocolate fountains
in aisle seventeen,
tonics to cure cholera,
syphilis, gout, melancholy.
For the full poem, click here.
So here are some newish poems. One is a sestina about a chicken that is not a baby and vice versa, another is not a sestina about a horse and a passion play, and the third is an ekphrastic that goes backwards.