Alan Dugan
Nomenclature
My mother never heard of Freud And she decided as a little girl That she would call her husband Dick No matter what his first name was And did. He called her Ditty. They
Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
The first and last time I met My ex-lover Anne Sexton was at A protest poetry reading against Some anti-constitutional war in Asia When some academic son of a bitch, To test her reputation
Swing Shift Blues
What is better than leaving a bar In the middle of the afternoon Besides staying in it or not Having gone into it in the first place Because you had a decent woman to
How We Heard the Name
The river brought down Dead horses, dead men And military debris, Indicative of war Or official acts upstream, But it went by, it all Goes by, that is the thing About the river. Then
On Looking for Models
The trees in time Have something else to do Besides their treeing. What is it. I’m a starving to death Man myself, and thirsty, thirsty By their fountains but I cannot drink Their mud