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Glyn Maxwell: “Deep Sorriness, Atonement Song”
Glyn Maxwellb. 1962 "Deep Sorriness Atonement Song"(for missed appointment, BBC North, Manchester) Ed. note: Just one of the funniest, sorriest, most pitiful apologies ever penned. Only thing is, it's full of allusions, some of…
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Larkin, Uncensored (On Human Bondage, Donald Davie, and Barbara Pym)
Philip Larkin wrote this poem — which he characterized as a "cri du cock" — in 1943, when he was 21: I would give all I possess(money, keep, wallet, personal effects, and articles of…
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“I’m Sorry” [by Stanley Moss]
I’m sorry, exhausted, except for funds.I wrote a check, the date October 18without the year, to Theresa Monrosefor a hundred dollars, I did not writethe amount longhand.My conversation with friendsis something like the way…
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Walt Whitman’s “Reconciliation” [ by John Brehm]
At the height of the American Civil War, Walt Whitman spent three years visiting wounded and dying soldiers in the hospitals in and around Washington, D.C. He would bring them small gifts, whatever they…
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Maureen Owen: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
photo by Rachael Pongetti _________________________________________________________________________ Survival Song Don’t worry about me on latenight subways coming home down…
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“The Men We Marry, the Men We Fuck” [by Jill Alexander Essbaum]
This one kissed me beneath the stars.That one fondled me up the stairs. This one confessed his sins but to God.That one demanded his pity aloud. This one drove me to the store.That one…
