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""Something there is that doesn't hump a sump,"
He said; and through his head she saw a cloud
That seemed to twinkle."
Kenneth Koch (b. 1925), U.S. poet. Mending Sump (l. 5-7). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"He's come to die
Or else to laugh, for hay is dried-up grass
When you're alone.""
Kenneth Koch (b. 1925), U.S. poet. Mending Sump (l. 9-11). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"One day the Nouns were clustered in the street.
An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty.
The Nouns were struck, moved, changed.
The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence."
Kenneth Koch (b. 1925), U.S. poet. Permanently (l. 1-4). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"As the adjective is lost in the sentence,
So I am lost in your eyes, ears, nose, and throat—
You have enchanted me with a single kiss
Which can never be undone
Until the destruction of language."
Kenneth Koch (b. 1925), U.S. poet. Permanently (l. 11-15). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"I chopped down the house that you had been saving to live in next
summer.
I am sorry, but it was morning, and I had nothing to do and its
wooden beams were so inviting."
Kenneth Koch (b. 1925), U.S. poet. Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"You were wearing your Edgar Allen Poe printed cotton blouse.
In each divided-up square of the blouse was a picture of Edgar Allan Poe."
Kenneth Koch (b. 1925), U.S. poet. You Were Wearing (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"In the yard across the street we saw a snowman holding a garbage
can lid. smashed into a likeness of the mad English king, George the
Third."
Kenneth Koch (b. 1925), U.S. poet. You Were Wearing (l. 13). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
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