"Arthur Englander's Back in School"
Richard Howard

Dear Mrs Masters, as you probably know,
almost half our Fifth Grade Class is Jewish--not
          a majority
but lots, without even counting our teacher
Miss Husband, who's getting married (next June) to
                                a gentile husband!
--that has to change more than her name, doesn ( Read more... )

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"Villanelle for D.G.B ( Read more... )

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Marilyn Hacker

You did say, need me less and I'll want you more.
I'm still shellshocked at needing anyone,
used to being used to it on my own.
It won't be me out on the tiles till four-
thirty, while you're in bed, willing the door
open with your need. You wanted her then ( Read more... )