Erica Jong Poems

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21.
Dear Keats

Already six years past your age!
The steps in Rome,
the house near Hampstead Heath,
& all your fears
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22.
To My Brother Poet, Seeking Peace

People wish to be settled. Only as long as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
-- Thoreau

My life has been
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23.
Colder

He was six foot four, and forty-six
and even colder than he thought he was

James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks
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24.
Baby Witch

Baby-witch,
my daughter,
my worship of the Goddess
alone
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25.
Henry James In The Heart Of The City

We have a small sculpture of Henry James on our terrace in New York City.

Nothing would surprise him.
The beast in the jungle was what he saw--
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26.
For An Earth-Landing

the sky sinks its blue teeth
into the mountains.

Rising on pure will
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27.
The Poet Fears Failure

The poet fears failure
& so she says
"Hold on pen--
what if the critics
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28.
Blood & Honey

I began by loving women
& the love turned
to bitterness.
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29.
Narcissus, Photographer

"...a frozen memory, like any photo,
where nothing is missing, not even,
and especially, nothingness..."

-- Julio Cortázar, "Blow Up"
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30.
Anti-Matter

I am not interested
in my body-
the part that stinks
& rots & brings forth
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