Drinking

My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy

California Plush by Frank Bidart The only thing I miss about Los Angeles

Jet by Tony Hoagland Sometimes I wish I were still out

Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it--it's the only

the suicide kid by Charles Bukowski I went to the worst of bars

Driving and Drinking [North to Parowan Gap] by David Lee North to Parowan Gap

Dangerous for Girls by Connie Voisine It was the summer of Chandra Levy, disappearing

Deer Hit by Jon Loomis You're seventeen and tunnel-vision drunk,

Days of Me by Stuart Dischell When people say they miss me,

Fallen Apples by Tom Hansen Wasps at work in the soft

I taste a liquor never brewed (214) by Emily Dickinson I taste a liquor never brewed--

Michael's Wine by Sandra Alcosser Winter again and we want

Nights by Harvey Shapiro Drunk and weeping. It's another night

Picking Up by Evelyn Duncan During the depression

The Silence by Philip Schultz You always called late and drunk,

Vodka by Joel Brouwer The Stoli bottle's frost melts to brilliance where I press my

Homecoming by Robert Lowell What was is . . . since 1930;

Joey Awake Now by Glyn Maxwell Some poems

"To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage" by Robert Lowell The hot night makes us keep our bedroom windows open

Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey by Hayden Carruth Scrambled eggs and whiskey

Compulsively Allergic to the Truth by Jeffrey McDaniel I'm sorry I was late

When a Woman Loves a Man by David Lehman When she says margarita she means daiquiri

Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump by David Bottoms Loaded on beer and whiskey, we ride

Father Listens to the Artists by David Petruzelli When I was eight months old, Jackson Pollock

The Bottom by Denise Duhamel I stopped drinking on my way down the hill

On 52nd Street by Philip Levine Down sat Bud, raised his hands,

The Summer House by Tony Connor The Danube glitters and toils

A Glass of Beer by James Stephens The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there

A Drinking Song by W. B. Yeats Wine comes in at the mouth

In Knowledge of Young Boys by Toi Derricotte i knew you before you had a mother

Deer Dancer by Joy Harjo Nearly everyone had left that bar in the middle of winter except the

The Drunken Fisherman by Robert Lowell Wallowing in this bloody sty,

The Eternal City by Jim Simmerman Sometimes I picture your face on money

At the Blue Note by Pablo Medina Sometimes in the heat of the snow

Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St. Vincent Millay Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink