Clothing

"What Do Women Want?" by Kim Addonizio
I want a red dress.
The Plaid Dress by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Strong sun, that bleach
Shirt by Robert Pinsky
The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams,
Black Nikes by Harryette Mullen
We need quarters like King Tut needed a boat. A slave
Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy by Donald Justice
O my coy darling, still
Borrowed Dress by Cathy Colman
He left the room, assured of his immortality--
Coat by Peg Boyers
At eleven I learned to lie.
Old Coat by Liam Rector
Dressed in an old coat I lumber
Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W. B. Yeats
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths
Dressmaker by Éireann Lorsung
Nothing touches like tan velvet touches
Wedding Dress by Michael Waters
That Halloween I wore your wedding dress
Upon Julia's Clothes by Robert Herrick
Whenas in silks my Julia goes
Red Velvet Jacket by Lynda Hull
It's almost Biblical driving this midnight burning highway
Fat Southern Men in Summer Suits by Liam Rector
Fat Southern men in their summer suits
Couture by Mark Doty
Peony silks
Black Jackets by Thom Gunn
In the silence that prolongs the span
My Shoes by Charles Simic
Shoes, secret face of my inner life
Duality by Tina Chang
Perhaps I hold people to impossible ideals
Red Shoes by Honor Moore
all that autumn you step from the train