For roses, from Chicago Review, Volume 23, Number 4, and Volume 25, Number 1.
from Old Man with Shears Among Roses / by Abby Rosenthal
Roses tumble noiselessly
through air.
Month: August 2014
DPF / Oleschinski
For mothers, from Poetry, October-November 1998.The title in German is, “Angefrorener Tang”.
from Frozen Seaweed / by Brigitte Oleschinski, translated by Andrew Shields
on the beach, and up above along the twilit herringbone
promenade, the stiff
stolid lamp disks
DPF / Brecht
For the flowers, from Poetry, October-November 1998.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/bertolt-brecht
from The Greenhouse / by Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), translated by Ursula Runde
where the debris of exotic flowers
lies in the shadow of the worn canvas
DPF / Manning
For Oz, from Fairy Tale Review, The Emerald Issue. More here:
http://fairytalereview.com/tag/the-emerald-issue/
from No Place Like / by Katie Manning
A few months after
the storm, Dorothy asked
to paint the farmhouse
emerald green.
DPF / Calderon
For odd creatures & moons, from Poetry, July/August 2014.
from Werewolf on the Moon / by Amanda Calderon
From it & all its names, names
for everything: for islands, for fables,
the provinces it traces
DPF / Sweeney
A pretty one for sisters, from the 2009 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poetry, How to Live on Bread and Music.
from The Three Sisters / by Jennifer K. Sweeney b. 1973
How many times have I peered
into the sloop and slag of childhood
as if shaking up a snow globe
DPF / Mlinko
For language, from Poetry, February 2011. More here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ange-mlinko#poet
from Symphonic Expanse / by Ange Mlinko b. 1969
The viscid catchfly,
ah, vying with bats at evening in Zahle
DPF / Martinez
For Sunday, from heredities, the 2010 Walt Whitman winner.
from The Quietest Heaven / by J. Michael Martinez
a blanched nightgown
whispering against tile
DPF / Kenney
No Kenney yet? Here go! This one’s from Poetry again, December 2012. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/244936
from March / by Richard Kenney b. 1948
Blues! Blooms! The yodel
of the chimney in night wind.
DPF / Karr
For New York, from Poetry magazine, December 2012.
from A Perfect Mess / by Mary Karr b. 1955
The city feeds on beauty, starves
for it, breeds it.
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