Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUNLIGHT, DARLING, by LYNNE MCMAHON Poet's Biography First Line: Makes a toy of night, / whose monstrous wedding Last Line: Are not betrayed. Subject(s): Marriage | ||||||||
makes a toy of night, whose monstrous wedding submerges once again beneath the tarp and all the warping promises that lust commenced and trysting ended (defended, if at all, by Freud's displacements on the sheets) repeat in casual ghost dispersals the truth of day: We are not betrayers, we are not betrayed. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SHE WANTS THE RING LIKE by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA A BLESSING FOR A WEDDING by JANE HIRSHFIELD A SUITE FOR MARRIAGE by DAVID IGNATOW ADVICE TO HER SON ON MARRIAGE by MARY BARBER THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD KISSING AGAIN by DORIANNE LAUX JUNKED BOILER by LYNNE MCMAHON |
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