Muse & Drudge [just as I am I come]- Poets.org

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Harryette Mullen

Harryette Mullen was born in Florence, Alabama, and raised in Fort Worth,...
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		Poems about Beauty
		Endymion, Book I, [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever] by John Keats

		Couture by Mark Doty

		Design for a Silver Box in the Shape of a Melon, 1918 by Jonathan Thirkield

		Faults by Sara Teasdale

		It's obvious by Greg Hewett

		Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Anne Sexton

		The Part of the Bee's Body Embedded in the Flesh by Carol Frost

		Trees Need Not Walk the Earth by David Rosenthal

		Poems about Cooking
		Artichoke by Richard Foerster

		Eating The Bones by Ellen Bass

		The Dry Spell by Kevin Young

Muse & Drudge [just as I am I come]
by Harryette Mullen

just as I am I come knee bent and body bowed this here's sorrow's home my body's southern song cram all you can into jelly jam preserve a feeling keep it sweet so beautiful it was presumptuous to alter the shape of my pleasure in doing or making proceed with abandon finding yourself where you are and who you're playing for what stray companion

Copyright © 2006 by Harryette Mullen. Reprinted from Recyclopedia with the permission of Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota.