Poems on the topic: wife

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Dave Bonta

Little song of epidemiology

Mouth of the queen, mouth of the horse— what will become of the young disease? Like a sling, a mouth needs content. After dinner comes a husband to a wife, night to the coffeehouse, a horse to a rogue.

Dave Bonta

Pillar

My wife is an oiled leg of church, a long psalm, sex the red letter I preserve among my other prayers.

Dave Bonta

Skid Row

Wine and a barrel fire— talking all afternoon of bad wives.

Dave Bonta

False prophet

I see clear and far; my trouble made a good sermon. I lease a shoulder to my wife and a dull sleep to my lute.

Dave Bonta

The starving artist casts a wide net

At home looking at an eel that my wife bought, I cried for our dinner that was all I.

Dave Bonta

Omen

Feathers in fish invite awe— a sign that the king cannot see. We sing, my wife and I. We put my books and her books to bed.

Dave Bonta

Men are from Earth, women are also from Earth

mathematical observation of the moon— talking with my wife

Dave Bonta

Gambler’s wife

her nose in sleep is young again late-night cards

Dave Bonta

Abed

lying in bed with my wife— winter afternoon

Dave Bonta

Morning after

morning frost pain in my bladder and the drawn face of my wife

Dave Bonta

Pearls

An oyster’s answer to a tear— I choose one for my wife and one, like so much in my mind, to keep to myself.

Dave Bonta

Veteran

In the war, my honor died. Why give to those people and deny to others? If I could come home to my wife… I sat with my hurt, all out of Sundays.

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