Tender Buttons [Chicken]

Gertrude Stein

CHICKEN.

Pheasant and chicken, chicken is a peculiar third.

CHICKEN.

Alas a dirty word, alas a dirty third alas a dirty third, alas a dirty bird.

CHICKEN.

Alas a doubt in case of more go to say what it is cress. What is it. Mean. Why. Potato. Loaves.

CHICKEN.

Stick stick call then, stick stick sticking, sticking with a chicken. Sticking in a extra succession, sticking in.

From Tender Buttons (1914) by Gertrude Stein.

Poems by This Author

Tender Buttons [A Box] by Gertrude Stein
A large box is handily made of what is necessary to replace any substance

Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon] by Gertrude Stein
A light in the moon the only light is on Sunday.

Tender Buttons [A Chair] by Gertrude Stein
A widow in a wise veil and more garments shows that shadows are even

Tender Buttons [A Little Called Pauline] by Gertrude Stein
A little called anything shows shudders

Tender Buttons [A Plate] by Gertrude Stein
An occasion for a plate, an occasional resource is in buying

Tender Buttons [Apple] by Gertrude Stein
Apple plum, carpet steak, seed clam...

Tender Buttons [Milk] by Gertrude Stein
A white egg and a colored pan and a cabbage showing settlement, a constant increase

Tender Buttons [Objects] by Gertrude Stein
A kind in glass and a cousin, a spectacle and nothing strange

Guillaume Apollinaire by Gertrude Stein
Give known or pin ware

Stanzas in Meditation by Gertrude Stein
She may count three little daisies very well

		Poems about Birds
		Littlefoot, 19, [This is the bird hour] by Charles Wright
		Rocket Fantastic [excerpt] by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
		The Scarlet Ibis, Section VII by Susan Hahn
		A Bird came down the Walk (328) by Emily Dickinson
		A Bird in Hand by Amber Flora Thomas
		A Peacock in Spring by Joyelle McSweeney
		Albatross in Co. Antrim by Robin Robertson
		Birdcall by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
		Birds Again by Jim Harrison
		Birds Appearing In A Dream by Michael Collier
		Black bird, red wing by Nickole Brown
		Darwin's Finches by Deborah Digges
		Dispatches from Devereux Slough by Mark Jarman
		Evening Hawk by Robert Penn Warren
		Ground Birds in Open Country by Stanley Plumly
		Gulls by William Carlos Williams
		Hardware Sparrows by R. T. Smith
		Home to Roost by Kay Ryan
		Hope is the thing with feathers (254) by Emily Dickinson
		Hummingbird by Elaine Terranova
		I am Like a Desert Owl, an Owl Among the Ruins by Noelle Kocot
		If the Owl Calls Again by John Haines
		In Flight by Jennifer K. Sweeney
		In the Memphis Airport by Timothy Steele
		Interlude by Edith Sitwell
		Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens by Jack Prelutsky
		Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats
		Leda, After the Swan by Carl Phillips
		Let Birds by Linda Gregg
		My Mother Would Be a Falconress by Robert Duncan
		Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
		Poet as Immortal Bird by Ron Padgett
		Red-Legged Kittiwake by Emily Wilson
		Small Study by Emily Wilson
		Song of the Owl by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
		Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar
		The Blue by David Baker
		The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy
		The Eagle by Lord Alfred Tennyson
		The Heron by Linda Hogan
		The Nightingale by Sir Philip Sidney
		The Parakeets by Alberto Blanco
		The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
		The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
		The Sparrow by Gerald Stern
		The Starlings by Jesper Svenbro
		The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
		The Yellow Bittern (An Bunnan Bui) by Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Gunna
		Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
		Three Moves by John Logan
		To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
		To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant
		White Stork by Michael Waters
		Wild Swans by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Tender Buttons [Chicken]

Gertrude Stein

Poems by This Author

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