Posts Tagged ‘ Mary Cresswell ’

“All Together, Now,” by Mary Cresswell

Dec 20th, 2023 | By

Let us now praise famous men:
Praise is wholesome, by and large—
you know they need it now and then
because they’re famous, because they’re men.



“Lady Macbeth Channels the Cat in the Hat,” by Mary Cresswell

Apr 20th, 2022 | By

I do not like you, Duncan King,
old fart lord of everything—
I will smite you with a pox
stick you in a wooden box



“The Raving,” by Mary Cresswell

Apr 20th, 2020 | By

I let my midnight dreams explore
what I had never dared before–

some fowl what I did see before
reclining quaint as once of yore.



“Indexers in Love,” by Mary Cresswell

Dec 20th, 2011 | By

hail, fellow well met, 1
handful, protagonist seen as quite a, 2
happiness as goal, 46
hazards, 56, 75, 113
headstrong, 2
heart: broken, 56; in mouth, 24–28; murmur, 123; of darkness, 307. See also lungs, liver, lights