Aimless Love by Billy Collins
1. You would love it here, is what I wrote on most of the postcards I sent last week. I realise now that that could've been a waste of space, a waste of words. Because that is the point of postcards,
Introduction to Poetry by Billy Collins
Because things are beginning again, and I am hoping more people discover poetry this year. Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press
Japan by Billy Collins
Good morning :) Japan Billy Collins Today I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the few words over and over. It feels like eating the same small, perfect grape again and again. I walk through the house reciting it and leave its letters falling through the air of
Love by Billy Collins
Hello, March. Hello, birthday month. In a few days I will be a quarter of a century old. I am still in awe thinking about this. Will I grow up to be the person I've always wanted to be? Will
As If to Demonstrate an Eclipse by Billy Collins
Have a few minutes to spare before midnight. Using it to say thanks for friends who've been with me through the years, dinner at a new restaurant, peanut butter crepes, and Billy Collins who knows a thing or two about
Nightclub by Billy Collins
It's an early morning for jazz, dear. Listening to Johnny Hartman and watching the sun rise. It's the beginning of the year, yes, dear, and I'm all alone again. But what else can I do, what else? I sit by
The Best Cigarette by Billy Collins
A birthday, an award, lovely friends. Couldn't ask for more. The Best Cigarette Billy Collins There are many that I miss having sent my last one out a car window sparking along the road one night, years ago. The heralded one, of course: after sex, the two
Marginalia by Billy Collins
Lasts. Everybody is talking about their lasts, as we spend the final days in the university this week. The last Monday, last Tuesday - that we'll ever spend. Today: the 'last' Wednesday, and I'm sitting in front of my computer, surrounded
On Turning Ten by Billy Collins
Accompanied M. to the mall for her driving lessons. Then I was left alone to wander by myself for two hours. Had my photos developed, which was pretty much the highlight of my day. Damn. I'm having one of those
Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of Their Titles by Billy Collins
Writing this down in a hurry. My life is a poem, and right now it's called It Was Beautiful and It Hurt. Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty, I Pause To Admire the Length and Clarity of