Poetry Magazine
Table of Contents
July 2005
Cover art: Peter De Sève, "Putois," 2004.
Playing Dead
The Glass Hammer
Prayer before Bed
Humidifier
Anagrams
Olives
After Horace (Odes III, 5)
Traveling through the Dark (2005)
The Modern Pastoral Elegy
A Library at Alexandria
A Doggerel
Traveling Alone
A Sense of Place
An Anniversary Poem
Sixteen Variations on a Couplet of Akhmatova's
Homages to Camille Paglia
Dewlaps
The Colt
Some Words inside of Words
Pied Booty
Mondegreen
Career
The Locust Song
Middle Age
Clothes Make the Man
Building a Joke
The Agamemnon Rag
Dogs Who Are Poets and Movie Stars
In the Middle of My Life, I Awoke in a Dark Wood
To Dan Chiasson concerning Fortune
Easy Sermon
Freedom of Association
From Sects from A to Z
Sonnet on Mirth
Chicken Pig
Prosody on Comedy
Story of My Life
Fear of FlyingComment
Letters to the Editor
