For mothers and daughters, from poetryfoundation.org.
from I Wish I Want I Need / by Gail Mazur
In Byfield,
in the snowstorm, we bought things
at an antiques mall, she a miniature
Sunbonnet Baby creamer and saucer—
a bargain!—I, a chrome ice bucke
stamped with penguins, with Bakelite handles.
For peace, from poetryfoundation.org.
from What the Dove Sings / by Carol Frost
The mourning dove
wearing noon’s aureole
coos from the rhododendron,
oo-waoh, shadow o-
ver what to do. Oh.
For a time far off in our future just now, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Last Snow / by Heid E. Erdrich, b. 1963
For the force, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Snow Signs / by Charles Tomlinson (1927-2015)
As though it were promising a protection
From all it has transfigured, scored and bared,
Now we shall know the force of what resurrection
Outwaits the simplification of the snow.
For birthdays. Happy birthday to my newly-minted 10-year old! From Mom and poetryfoundation.org.
from Writ on the Eve of my 32nd Birthday / by Gregory Corso
And the eyes, ah the eyes get better all the time.
For the month, from poetryfoundation.org.
from DECEMBER [1757] XII Month / by Benjamin Franklin
Would you be well receiv’d where’er you go
For firmament and fire, from poetryfoundation.org and 19th-Century American Poetry.
from The Flâneur / by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
For the love of running, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Song of the Ungirt Runners / by Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)
For all the keys on the keyboard which never got so much use as they do now, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Turnt / by Juliana Spahr, b. 1966/Ohio
For the love of books and for a day more like heaven than not, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Bookshelf of the God of Infinite Space / by Jeffrey Skinner
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