Poets/Anne Stevenson

Anne Stevenson

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Whenever my father was left with nothing to do — …

Anne Stevenson

Teach-cheap, teach-cheap, teach-cheap, teach-cheap— …

Anne Stevenson

They were to have been a love gift, …

Anne Stevenson

Equisetum, horsetail, railway weed …

Anne Stevenson

Consider the adhesiveness of things …

Anne Stevenson

I laid myself down as a woman …

Anne Stevenson

There, in that lost …

Anne Stevenson

(i.m. Charles Leslie Stevenson, 1909-79) …

Anne Stevenson

Spring comes little, a little. All April it rains. …

Anne Stevenson

Where they will bury me …

Anne Stevenson

Falling to sleep last night in a deep crevasse …

Anne Stevenson

Because hairs on their speckled daybeds baffle the little bees, …

Anne Stevenson

The spirit is too blunt an instrument …

Anne Stevenson

Late October. It is afternoon. …

Anne Stevenson

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