"It Will Not Change," by Sara Teasdale

"She's Checking," by Hans Ostrom

in the Parkway Tavern, Tacoma,
i'd been drinking lemonade
for a half-hour or so.

a different waitress
came to the table. i
wondered if waitresses
and waiters like
to be called servers
now or not. i kept
this question to myself.

anyway, she said,
"what are you drinking?"
i said, "lemonade."
she said, "we don't have
lemonade." i said,
"i have been drinking
lemonade." she said,
"well, i'll check."



hans ostrom

"I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon," by Stephen Crane

"The Poet Speaks," by Georgia Douglas Johnson

"Death and Life," by Robert W. Service

Paranormal Poetry

Here is a list of about 20 "paranormal" poems--reading recorded for Youtube--from a wide range of authors--including Edna St. Vincent Millay ("Witch Wife") and Jorge Luis Borges ("Nightmare"):

Sara Teasdale's Poems

Here is a playlist of recorded readings of six poems by Sara Teasdale:

"Fog," by Langston Hughes

"You Smiled, You Spoke, and I Believed," by Walter Savage Landor

"When Sue Wears Red," by Langston Hughes

"Grown-Up," by Edna St. Vincent Millay

"There Will Come Soft Rains," by Sara Teasdale

"Haunted Houses," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow