"I can smell
the blade that opens the hole
and the pudgy white fingers
that shake out the intestines
like a hankie."
Philip Levine (b. 1928), U.S. poet. Animals Are Passing from Our Lives (l. 6-10). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. |
"It's wonderful how I jog
on four-honed-down ivory toes
my massive buttocks slipping
like oiled parts with each light step."
Philip Levine (b. 1928), U.S. poet. Animals Are Passing from Our Lives (l. 1-4). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. |
|
