For the trees, from his book, The Carrier of Ladders (1967). More on Merwin here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/w-s-merwin
from In the Time of the Blossoms / by W.S. Merwin
all over you leaf skeletons
fine as sparrow bones
For the trees, from his book, The Carrier of Ladders (1967). More on Merwin here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/w-s-merwin
from In the Time of the Blossoms / by W.S. Merwin
all over you leaf skeletons
fine as sparrow bones
Another rain poem to stand in for a rain dance. We need rain! From his book, Black Aperture (2013).
from Monet as a Verb / by Matt Rasmussen
The raindrop
that splatters
on a blade
of grass is
no more
From her book, Harm (2011). In looking up her biography, I see that she died on May 10th of this year, at the age of 35. More here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/05/hillary-gravendyk-1979-2014/?woo
from Unsaid / by Hilary Gravendyk (1979-2014)
if you’d speak of it
you’d say I’m like a cloud
For Beatrice, from Octopus Magazine, Issue No. 16, 2014. Full poem here:
http://www.octopusmagazine.com/Issue16/brodak.php
from Ouroboros / by Molly Brodak
Dante is standing there
having thought about Beatrice all this way
For arbors and wine from Poetry, September 1997. A little bit more by/about Atkinson here:
http://www.32poems.com/blog/2188/day-10-jennifer-atkinson-on-her-five-favorite-poetry-books
from Ancient of Days / by Jennifer Atkinson
The temple stands empty, unhaunted,
But for the drone of my words, and the bees.
from Homecoming / by Peter Viereck
And I’ve nothing else to do but fish and brood.
from Homecoming / by Peter Viereck
And I’ve nothing else to do but fish and brood.
For Audubon, from Poem A Day, edited by Laurie Sheck, Volume 2 (2003). More on Robert Penn Warren here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-penn-warren
from VI Love and Knowledge (from Audubon: A Vision) / by Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
They cry
In a tongue multitudinous, often like music.
From The New Criterion, June 1998, Volume 16, Number 10. You may have read her beautiful children’s book, The Mouse of Amherst, about a mouse living in the wall behind Emily Dickinson’s writing desk. The illustrations by Claire Nivola, the colors, and the two friends trading poems make it a book worth hunting down. More here and here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/elizabeth-spires
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mouse-Amherst-Elizabeth-Spires/dp/0374350833/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407258982&sr=8-1&keywords=the+mouse+of+Amherst
from Dogwood / by Elizabeth Spires b. 1952
For weeks you have stood there,
arms raised like a priest
From Mouth to Mouth, edited by Forrest Gander (1991).
from Canto Malabar / by Elsa Cross
From the shine of your feet
a wave of light rises
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