Purgatory
by Maxine Kumin
And suppose the darlings get to Mantua,
suppose they cheat the crypt, what next? Begin
with him, unshaven. Though not, I grant you, a
displeasing cockerel, there’s egg yolk on his chin.
His seedy robe’s aflap, he’s got the rheum.
Poor dear, the cooking lard has smoked her eye.
Another Montague is in the womb
although the first babe’s bottom’s not yet dry.
She scrolls a weekly letter to her Nurse
who dares to send a smock through Balthasar,
and once a month, his father posts a purse.
News from Verona? Always news of war.
Such sour years it takes to right this wrong!
The fifth act runs unconscionably long.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Gathering Leaves by Robert Frost
- Reading Runes by Marina Cecilia Kohon
- Smiling Buddha by Satish Verma
- Why Write? by Mark Olynyk
- To A Wife, On Mother’s Day by Ronald G. Auguste
- Why? by Tiffany Ann Monroe
- Address To A Child During A Boisterous Winter By My Sister by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet. Why Did I Laugh Tonight? poem – John Keats poems
- Олег Бундур – Тополёк
- Nijole Miliauskaite – Nijole Miliauskaite
- The cake by Mahak Raithatha S
- Яков Полонский – Памяти В. М. Гаршина
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