oriana-poetry

poems by American and European poets; book reviews; poetry theory; personal reflections on poetry, the immigrant experience, psychology, religion, mythology, culture

Thursday, September 10, 2015

MARK STRAND: OLD MAN LEAVES PARTY

OLD MAN LEAVES PARTY It was clear when I left the party That though I was over eighty I still had A beautiful body. The moon shone down as...

Sunday, September 6, 2015

LOVE CHEMICALS; MILOSZ: HOW GOD BECAME CRUEL; PLATO VERSUS ARISTOTLE; ALCOHOL, HEART, ARTHRITIS

H OMELAND Twenty years later I’m told I am foreign. How naïve to have thought I’d grow out of it. As if I could erase my Columbus Day: in ...

Saturday, August 29, 2015

LENIN AND FDR; SECRET OF HAPPINESS: LOW EXPECTATIONS; BARABBAS: NO SUCH CUSTOM; CHANGE IN HUMAN SKULL SHAPE; XYLITOL, THE ALKALIZING SWEETENER

THE THIRD LANGUAGE In high school I kept a diary in English, so if the teacher caught me, and she did, she wouldn’t understand. I ha...

Sunday, August 23, 2015

CHILDREN SEE GOD AS SUPERMAN; BEAUTY INCREASES HAPPINESS; WE TASTE WITH ALL OUR SENSES; VIVA PECTIN!

Ludovico Mazzolino, God the Father THE LAUGHTER OF GOD But the woman was growing restless. You see, there was no narrative. No verbs. Para...

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