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THOMAS M. DISCH


Poems found: 294

1793

ABEECDARY

ADJECTIVES

ADVERBS

ADVICE TO YOUNG COOKS

AFTER DONNE

AFTER OSTADE

AFTER PEGUY

AGREEMENT OF PREDICATE PRONOUNS

ALCOHOL ISLAND: A CHRONICLE

ALLEGORY

ANCIENT HERO

ANNIVERSARY VALENTINE

APARTMENT HUNTING

ARGUMENT RESUMED; OR UP THROUGH TRIBECA

ARS POETICA

ART OF DYING

AT THE GRAVE OF AMY CLAMPITT

AT THE TOMB OF THE UNKNOWN PRESIDENT

ATTRACTIVE OPPOSITES

AUBADE: IT'S DAWN AND

AUXILIARY VERBS

BACK HERE

BALLADE OF THE NEW GOD

BIRD FEEDER

BIRTH OF A PILLOW

BLINDMAN'S SIGN

BOOKMARK

BOURGEOIS IDYLL

BOWLING HAS BEEN THE GREAT SPIRIT

BRIDE OF BARON DEATH

BUYING A USED CAR

CALABOOSE AT THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

CALL TO LOST MEMBERS

CANINE IN RECOVERY

CAPE MENDOCINO ROSE

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

CARDINAL DETOXES: A PLAY IN ONE ACT

CATALOGUE

CAUSES AND EFFECTS

CHILDHOOD OF LANGUAGE

CHRISTMAS GUILT

CLOSE YOUR EYES NOW

CLOUDS

COAL MINERS

COLOR BLUE

COME, PLEASANT DEATH

COMING OF AGE

COMPOUND OBJECT PRONOUNS

CONCISE HISTORY OF MUSIC

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO BE

CONTENTS

CONTRACTIONS

CONVALESCING IN LONDON

COW OF OUR TIME

CRUBLING INFRASTRUCTURE

D.W. RICHMOND GIVES DIRECTIONS TO THE ARCHITECT OF HIS TOMB

DEATH ROW VILLANELLE

DEATH WISH IV

DECAYING SWAN

DEFINITE AND INDEFINITE ARTICLES

DELETE 'STARS

DIRT AND THE WILLOW

DOPPELGANGER

DREAMS: A DARWINIAN VIEW

DUELING PLATITUDES

EIGHTFOLD WAY: A MASQUE IN FIVE TABLEAUX

EITHER/OR

ELYSIUM

ENTROPIC VILLANELLE

EPISTLE

EPITAPH

EPITAPH FOR THE PAST TENSES

EROSION

ETERNITY

EVENTS OF THE DAY

EVERYTHING CLOSES AFTER MIDNIGHT: A LONDON LAMENT

EXCUSE THE LANGUAGE

EYEBALL TO EYEBALL

FAIRY SONG

FETISHIST'S LAMENT

FIN DE SIECLE

FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE

FIRST CUCKOO

FLYING HOME

FOOL'S MATE

FOR A DERELICT

FOR MARILYN HACKER

FRIENDS OF LONG AGO

FUNERAL ODE ON THE DEATH OF PRINCESS DIANA

FUTURE TENSE

GARAGE SALE

GARAGE SALE AS A SPIRITUAL EXERCISE

GILDA: AN ENTR'ACTE

GIRL AND HER HORSE

GOD'S CRIME POLICY

GOLDBERG VARIATIONS

GOTTA GET MY ACT TOGETHER

GRAVEDIGGER'S SOLILOQUY

HANDS AND MOUTH

HANSEL, A RETROSPECT OR, THE DANGER OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY

HAUNTED BIRDHOUSE

HAVE YOU EVER GONE UP TO THE ROOF

HE, SHE, AND IT

HEY EVERYONE LOOK AT WHAT'S HERE

HIGH PURPOSE IN POETRY: A PRIMER

HOMAGE TO THE CARRACCI

HOMONYMS

HOMOPHONES

HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD

HOW TO BEHAVE WHEN DEAD

HOW TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF IN A CROWD

HYMN TO VENUS

I AM JUST A PLAIN POET

I WHO HAVE GONE THROUGH THE WHOLE GAMUT

IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

IF/THEN

IN AND OUT

IN DEFENSE OF FOREST LAWN

IN MEMORIAM

IN PRAISE OF HISTORY

IN PRAISE OF NEW YORK

IN THE NEWS

IN THE PICTURE

INDIRECT OBJECT

INSOMNIA

INVICTUS

JOYCELIN SHRAGER POEMS

JOYCELIN SHRAGER STORY

JUST BEFORE THE COPS ARRIVE

KINDERGARTEN SONGS

KING'S BIRTHDAY

LA VENGANZA DE LA LOS MUERTOS VEVIENTES

LA VENGANZA DE LOS MUERTOS VIVIENTES

LA, LA, LA

LE TOMBEAU DE BACH (RICHARD)

LEARNING TO CROSS THE STREET

LIBRARY OF AMERICA

LIE AND LAY

LIGHT VERSES FOR THE VIET NAM DEAD

LIKE AND AS

LIPSTICK ON THE MIRROR

LISTENING TO THE NEWS

LITANY

LIVES OF GREAT MEN ALL REMIND US

LORE OF THE JUNGLE

LOVE AND CLOVER: A WHITE PAPER

LUXE, CALME, ET DESESPOIR

MAD GOVERNESS

MADNESS OF UNIFORMS, THE SADNESS OF LAUNDROMATS

MAKING IT YOURS

MARCH

MARKING TIME

MAY

MAYBE

MCMLXXXIV

MEDUSA AT HER VANITY

MEMOIRS OF A PRIMROSE

MINOR POETS ARE HUMAN TOO

MISSISSIPPI SLEIGH RIDE

MODEL PRISON

MORE GOOD ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG

MY ASSIGNMENT THIS WEEK IS A SONNET

MY MOTHER: A DISCUSSION

MY WILLOUGHBY PERSONALITY SCHEDULE

NEW COVENANT

NEW FASHIONS

NEW YORK COUNTING RHYME

NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET

NO FORM, NO CONTENT

NOT

NOTE TO ROMEO

NOUNS

NUTS IN MAY

OBJECT

OBJECT OF THE PREPOSITION

ODE ON THE SOURCE OF THE CLITUMNUS

ODE ON THE SOURCE OF THE FOUX

ODE TO EQUANIMITY

ODIOUS COMPARISONS

OGRE'S MANIFESTO

OLD FRIENDS

ON DEPOSITING THE CHECK FOR A LEGACY

ON GEORGE W.

ON RE-READING GEORGE MACBETH'S PENGUIN BOOK OF SICK VERSE (1963)

ONE'S GENDER PROBLEMS

ORIENTING MR. BLANK

PAINTING 1/11/80

PAINTING 1/13/80

PAINTING 1/8/80

PICTURE AND THE MIRROR

POEM FROM THE PEN

POEMS

PORTRAIT OF A TOURIST

PRAISE

PRAYER TO PLEASURE

PRESENT TENSE

PRISONERS OF WAR

PRONOUNS

PRONOUNS

PROPER NOUNS

PROSPECT BEHIND US

PSALMS OF A TAX ACCOUNTANT

QUESTIONNAIRE

QUESTIONS YOUR CHILDREN ARE CERTAIN TO ASK

QUOTATION MARKS

RAPIST'S VILLANELLE

RED TULIPS IN 1947

REMAINDERED TITLES AT BARNES & NOBLE

REMARKS CONCERNING THE FITNESS OF ALL THINGS

RICHARD ANDSOFORTH

RIDDLE

RIDDLE WITH GUESSES

RIMBAUD 2000

ROSE, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT RED?

RULES OF ORDER FOR NEW CONSERVATIVES

SELECTED QUIRKS

SELF AS PRODUCT

SESTINA FOR SUSAN SONTAG

SHELF

SHORT FLIGHT

SHORT-TERM MEMORY LOSS

SIGNS OF SPRING IN A DEPRESSED ECONOMY

SIN AND PUNISHMENT

SISTER'S DAY

SIZE OF THE WORLD

SKYDIVER

SLIDES

SMASHING CHINA

SMOKE IN THE MANGER: A CHRISTMAS LEGEND

SO GROWS THE TREE

SOMETHING PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE

SPLIT INFINITIVES

STARS AS THOUGHT

STAYING HOME

STRANGE PLURALS

STROLL THROUGH MOSCOW

SUBJECT

SUNDAY AT HOME

SURPRISE'

SWEET TRIOLETS: A TRIOLET FOR PASSION SUNDAY

SWEET TRIOLETS: A TRIOLET WITH MAYONNAISE

SWEET TRIOLETS: IL PENSEROSO

SWEET TRIOLETS: L'ALLEGRO

SWEET TRIOLETS: THE BOUTONNIERE

SWEET TRIOLETS: THE WISDOM OF THE TRIOLET

SWEET TRIOLETS: THE YAWNING BRIDEGROOM

SWIMMING

SYMBOLS OF LOVE AND DEATH

TALES OF THE FOREBEARS

TEMPS PERDU

THERE IS AN INDEX BY FIRST LINES

THESEUS TO HIPPOLYTA

THOU, THEE, AND THINE

THREE BOXES

THREE GREETING CARDS

THREE LITTLE PIGS

THREE PEOPLE AND THEIR FEELINGS: 1

THREE PEOPLE AND THEIR FEELINGS: 2

THREE PEOPLE AND THEIR FEELINGS: 3

TO A TREE

TO AN ELDER BROTHER, ABORTED

TO AN UNREPENTANT PLAGIARIST

TO ANTHEA

TO FAME

TO GOETHE

TO JEAN-ANN

TO THE SUN

TODAY I WAS ALMOST PUT IN JAIL

TREE IN THE DARK

TURNER JIGSAW

VACATION ON EARTH

VERBS

VIEWERS AND THE VIEW: EURAILPASS VERSES, 1985

VILLANELL FOR CHARLES OLSON

VILLONESQUE

WAITING FOR A WAR

WALKING IN A STRANGE APARTMENT

WE ARE DIVIDED EVERYWHERE IN TWO PARTS

WHAT ELSE IS THERE

WHAT IT WAS LIKE

WHAT TO ACCEPT

WHAT'S LEFT UNSAID, OR THE DODO'S JOY

WHEN I AM SICK SCIENCE FICTION

WHEN YOUR EYES MEET, WHEN YOUR HAND SHAKES

WHEN YOUR HAND SHAKES, WHEN YOUR EYE'S MEAT

WHY THIS TIE, WHY THAT

WITHOUT A GROAN

WORKING ON A TAN

YES, LET'S

YORICK'S REPLY

YOU AND I

YOU CAN OWN THIS PAINTING FOR $75

ZEWHYEXARY



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