For heroes of every kind, from Poetry Foundation.
from In The Cannery the Porpoise Soul / by Juan Felipe Herrera
the mayor is waiting/counting scales
Month: November 2014
DPF / Limón
For native fields, from APR, November/December 2014.
from The Rewilding / by Ada Limón
I don’t want to be only the landscape: the bone’s buried.
DPF / Cavafy
For crowns and scrolls, from A Book of Luminous Things: an international anthology of poetry, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Waiting for the Barbarians / by Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933)
Why are they carrying elegant canes
beautifully worked in silver and gold?
DPF / Treadwell
For struggles, from APR, November/December 2014. More here:
http://www.elizabethtreadwell.com/
from Bear Flag Anthem / by Elizabeth Treadwell
pressed by wave & peak
the bitter halls of anthropology
DPF / Wat
For bells, from A Book of Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Songs of a Wanderer / by Aleksander Wat (1900-1967)
So beautiful the lungs
are breathless.
DPF / Kooser
For elderly couples, from American Poets, Fall – Winter 2014.
from Splitting an Order / by Ted Kooser
and then to wait, offering the plate to his wife
DPF / Lycurgus
For doorways, from APR, Nov/Dec 2014.
from Late, in a Time of Splendor / by Cate Lycurgus
It was stunning at the bodega. Rain all night
then steam, lifting
DPF / Plumly
From The American Poetry Review, November/December 2014.
from With Deborah in Amherst / by Stanley Plumly
It’d been a hard cold year, snow on snow
piled up roof – high
DPF / Morgan
For bees, from A Book of Luminous Things.
from Honey / by Robert Morgan b. 1944
a sealed relic of sun and time
and roots of many acres fixed
DPF / Grennan
For fireflies, from an Irish poet born the same year as my/our mother, and from A Book of Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Woman At Lit Window / by Eamon Grennan b. 1941
among the trees, a host of fireflies
in fragrant silence and native ease
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