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DPF / Wieners

Posted by Michele Pizarro Harman

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For the “crysalis” and beyond, from Poetry, June 2015.

from A poem for trapped things / by John Wieners

The blue diamonds on your back
are too beautiful

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Tagged 20th-Century Poetry, for Don Allen, last day of May, May

May·31

DPF / Starbuck

Posted by Michele Pizarro Harman

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For yellow forsythia and Sylvia, from Poetry, June 2015.

from Sylvia En Route to Kythera / by Kathryn Starbuck

Sylvia used to trod
through it to see us
too often

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Tagged 21st-Century Poetry, George Starbuck

May·30

DPF / Kirchheimer

Posted by Michele Pizarro Harman

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For form and the game of chess of it, from Villanelles, edited by Annie Finch and Marie-Eliabeth Mali.

from Experts Say / by Janet R. Kirchheimer, b. 1956

The villanelle is a poet’s nightmare.
And this is my 9th attempt.

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Tagged 21st-Century Ameican Poetry, 21st-Century Poetry, May

May·29

DPF / Palmer

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For memory and May, from Great American Prose Poems, edited by David Lehman.

from A world is coming up on the screen / by Michael Palmer

My cat has twelve toes, like poets in Boston.

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May·28

DPF / Song

Posted by Michele Pizarro Harman

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For mothers and children, from Poetry Foundation. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172141

from Waterwings / by Cathy Song, b. 1955

His imprint on the water
has but a brief lifespan,
the flicker of a dragonfly’s delicate wing.

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Tagged 21st Century American Poetry, 21st-Century Poetry, Chinese, Hawaii, Korea, May

May·27

DPF / Seuss

Posted by Michele Pizarro Harman

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For another Seuss, from Poem-A-Day yesterday, The Academy of American Poets. Good to have Plath visit via her magical braid.

from Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath’s Braid / by Diane Seuss

Some women make a pilgrimage to visit it
in the Indiana library charged to keep it safe.

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Tagged 21st Century American Poetry, 21st-Century Poetry, Kalamazoo, May, Michigan, Plath

May·26

DPF / Anania

Posted by Michele Pizarro Harman

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For the day and its remembrances, from Poetry Foundation. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178467

from Memorial Day / by Michael Anania, b. 1939

fingers cramped red at the knuckles, discolored
nails, fresh soil for new plants, old rosaries

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Tagged 20th-Century Poetry, 21st Century American Poetry, 21st-Century Poetry, May, Memorial Day Weekend

May·25

DPF / Padgett

Posted by Michele Pizarro Harman

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For times of trouble and despondency, from Great American Prose Poems, edited by David Lehman.

from Light as Air / by Ron Padgett, b. 1942

I see the light on everything, trees, hills, and clouds, and I do not see the trees, hills, and clouds.

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May·24

DPF / Brainard

Posted by Michele Pizarro Harman

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For brevity, from Great American Prose Poems, edited by David Lehman.

from History / by Joe Brainard  (1942-1994)

almost every day is the anniversary of

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May·23

DPF / Hass

Posted by Michele Pizarro Harman

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For stranger than fiction, from Great American Prose Poems, edited by David Lehman.

from Tall Windows / by Robert Hass, b. 1941

In Leiden, on the street outside the university, the house where Descartes lived was mirrored in the canal.

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May·22

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