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Poem
The Artichoke
She bore only the heart,
Worked at the stem with her
Fingers, pulling it to her,
And into her, like a cord.
She would sustain him,
Would cover his heart.
The hairy needles
And the bigger leaves,
These she licked into shape,
Tipping each with its point.
He is...
She bore only the heart,
Worked at the stem with her
Fingers, pulling it to her,
And into her, like a cord.
She would sustain him,
Would cover his heart.
The hairy needles
And the bigger leaves,
These she licked into shape,
Tipping each with its point.
He is...
Table of Contents
The Vegetables
- James McMichael
- Stephen Berg
- Daniel G. Hoffman
- Laurence Lieberman
- Ramon Guthrie
Domes
- John Koethe
- Charles Tomlinson
- James Atlas
- Margaret Atwood
Comment
- Robert B. Shaw
- Both Sides of the Water
- Sandgrains on a Tray, by Alan Brownjohn
- The Night of Stones, by George Macbeth
- Requiem and Celebration, by John Ormond
- Door into the Dark, by Seamus Heaney
- Findings, by Wendell Berry
- A Bed by the Sea, by Arthur Gregor
- A Lesson from the Cyclops, by Raphael Rudnik
- Collected and New Poems: 1924-1963, by Mark Van Doren
- Dick Allen
- Aram Saroyan
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