For idly sweeping up, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from “An archive of confessions, a genealogy of confessions” / by Joshua Clover, b. 1962
The tribe of mothers calls the tribe of children
Across the bluing evening. It’s the hour things get
To be excellently pointless, like describing the alphabet.
(Errata: Taylor is updated.) 🙂
For spinning wheels and memory, from The Oxford Book of American Poetry, edited by David Lehman.
from Huswifery / by Edward Taylor (1642-1729)
Make me thy Loome then, knit therein this Twine:
And make thy Holy Spirit, Lord, winde quills:
Then weave the Web Thyselfe. Thy yarn is fine.
(Updated) For spinning wheels and memory, from The Oxford Book of American Poetry, edited by David Lehman.
from Huswifery / by Edward Taylor (1642-1729)
Make me thy Loome then, knit therein this Twine:
And make thy Holy Spirit, Lord, winde quills:
Then weave the Web Thyselfe. Thy yarn is fine.
For dreams and a day for remembering them, from Poetry Foundation. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175662
from In the God’s Dreams / by James Laughlin (1914–1997)
Another night, and this one
was a bit scary, I swam across
the lake with my head under
water, I didn’t have to breathe air.
For drama of the stage kind, from Poetry, December 2014.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/249118
from Fourth of July 2012 / by Robyn Schiff, b. 1973
I remember
a performance of Antigone. She stooped.
There was a wild particle.
For stars and lilies, from Poetry, December, 2014.
from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous / by Ocean Vuong
That your name
is only the sound of clocks
being set back another hour
& morning
For curtains and stoves, from Poetry, December 2014. More on the poet here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/hannah-gamble
from I Wanted to Make Myself like the Ravine / by Hannah Gamble
Analyze the risks
of becoming a ravine.
For solo vowels, from Poetry, January, 2015.
from Figure of Aeolus / by Kevin Craft
Isole Eolie — O hoop
of exhilaration, O sigh of relief
For bears moving slowly, from The Best American Poetry, 2014. Thank you, Rachel! More on the poet, here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/jake-adam-york.
from Calendar Days / by Jake Adam York (1972-2012)
Tomorrow’s
my birthday day in another month, a twelfth
of a reminder of something I can’t remember,
though they say I was there.
For the birds, in the best way, from The Best American Poetry, 2014, Guest Edited by Terrance Hayes, Series Editor David Lehman. More on the poet here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-wrigley
from Blessed Are / by Robert Wrigley, b. 1951
You, faithful ravens, staying on and saying
through the songbirdless winter
the biblical syntax of your declarations.
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