More for birds, from the Poetry Foundation website. The rest of the poem may be found here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/181470
from The end of the world / by Miroslav Holub (1923–1998)
The bird had come to the very end of its song
Month: September 2014
DPF / Black
For birds, from the Poetry Foundation website. The rest of the poem may be found here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/181626
from Bird at the Window / by Sophie Cabot Black
Almost done, the world a ruin
Of leaves
DPF / Chappell
For yellowhammers, from Thrush Poetry Journal, an anthology of the first two years, 2014. The complete poem is here:
http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/november-2012-carrie-chappell.html
from Tuesday Night Ponders / by Carrie Chappell
I could tend gardens, Dai-
sy would be here.
DPF / Oppen
For shoppers, from Poem a Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Pedestrian / by George Oppen
This grandchild of the shopping streets, her eyes
DPF / Hurt
From Fairytale Review, The Emerald Issue. From a fellow, (what’s the feminine of fellow, native?) native Ohioan.
from No Place (Dorothy Reconsiders) / by Rochelle Hurt
Out here the din of tin on tin hangs
just below an orphaned smudge of cumulus
DPF / Davidson
From Crab Orchard Review, Winter/Spring 2014.
from In Ravenna / by Chad Davidson
like rose petals from the extravagant
ceilings of basilicas
DPF / Hall
For rain again, from the Jacaranda Review issue I share with Barry Spacks, Alfred Corn, and Daniel Hall, Fall 1986, Vol. II, No. 1. More here on Daniel Hall:
https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/djhall
from Rainy Season / by Daniel Hall b. 1952
Yes. I could almost see you
hearing it: rising near
but never breaking the surface
DPF / Fu
For snow, from Poem A Day, Vol. 2, editing by Laurie Sheck.
from Written on the Wall at Chang’s Hermitage / by Tu Fu, translated by Kenneth Rexroth (712-770)
You want nothing, although at night
You can see the aura of gold
DPF / Anonymous
For green, from Poem a Day, Vol. 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Green Willow / by Anonymous
O! willow, willow, willow, willow,
O! willow, willow, willow, willow,
DPF / Knox
For godparents, from Sycamore Review, Winter/Spring 1997.
from A Beaker / by Caroline Knox
What did your godparents then for you at this time?
Answer: Silver cup, plate, and spoon
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