Thursday, September 29, 2011

bedfellows and bedfellowesses

Christina Rossetti was a regular from the 20's to the 30's
Emily Dickinson a dalliance in between
Thomas Hardy, Borges, Philip Larkin followed
before the women returned:

Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop,
and Hsia Yu
whose beer I drank and cab I shared (Taipei 2008)
then Marie Etienne, through Marilyn Hacker,
but the desire for a gin-and-tonic at 5 in the office
can only be assuaged by Wendy Cope

Oh yes, the bedside table knows
only too well
my constancy
my fickleness





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