Match the poet with the quote from his or her poem:
1. “I groped for him before I knew”
2. “you slip/ half-a-foot deep into someone you like”
3. “new memory like a seltzer in my crotch”
4. “he kissed her Anne Sexton/ and she returned the favor, caressing
his Ted Berrigan”
5. “that slippery ingress … its complicated fragrance”
6. “Gently, with my lips/ loosen the button./ Have them slip into my hands/
Like two freshly poured beer mugs”
7. “she wanted him hung up on her breasts, not on her feet”
8. “The clam shell opens./ The oyster is eaten.”
9. “At each beat of his heart it threw/ An odd little nod my way. From the
slot of the spout/ Extended a drop of transparent viscous goo”
10. “nude ghosts seeking each other out in the silence”
Charles Simic Marge Piercy Albert Goldbarth
Emily Dickinson David Lehman Allen Ginsberg
Elizabeth Alexander Michael Ryan Jim Cummins
W. H. Auden
If you know the right match-ups, please let me know — in a comment. I need to know because I lost the sheet on which I wrote the identifyuing names. It’s not easy being a mother. Also, if you have a good sexy line thaty belongs in a poem that has not yet been written, go right ahead and let us know. It will enter the public domain of ouir collective consciousness. Immature poets imitate. Mature poets steal. –Molly
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Author: The Best American Poetry
