For oranges and sleep, from How to Be Perfect, by Ron Padgett.
from How to Be Perfect / by Ron Padgett
Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room
before you save the world. Then save the world.
Month: February 2016
DPF / Padgett
For colors and tapestry, from How to Be Perfect, by Ron Padgett.
from History / by Ron Padgett
I think that Geoffrey Chaucer did not move
the way a modern person moves.
He moved only an inch at a time, in what
we call stop action.
DPF / Collins
For peace again, the rarest of all things, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Silence / by Billy Collins
There is the sudden silence of the crowd
above a player not moving on the field,
and the silence of the orchid.
DPF / Plath
For peace in all its incarnations, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Tulips / by Sylvia Plath
The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here.
Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in.
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly
As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands.
DPF / Bowman
For piecing life together, from The Best American Poetry 2015, guest editor Sherman Alexie, series editor David Lehman.
from Makeshift / by Catherine Bowman
From two pieces of string and oil-fattened feathers he made a father.
She made a mother from loss buttons and ocean debris.
DPF / Austin
Happy Valentine’s Day, 2016, from The Best American Poetry 2015, guest editor, Sherman Alexie, series editor, David Lehman, and originally from Burrow Press Review.
from Cedars of Lebanon / by Sherman Alexie
You knock at the door.
Break several cedar branches
and dust off the snow.
Bring in seven for the bedroom,
seven for the fireplace,
then rest your head on my chest–
even bare
branches can make a kind of summer.
DPF / Glück
For pilgrims and gardens, from The Best American Poetry 2015, guest editor Sherman Alexie, series editor David Lehman.
from A Sharply Worded Silence / by Louise Glück
so I assumed there would be, at some point,
a door with a glittering knob,
but when this would happen and where I had no idea.
DPF / Videlock
For hearts and chocolates, from The Best American Poetry 2015, Guest Editor Sherman Alexie, Series Editor, David Lehman.
from How You Might Approach a Foal / by Wendy Videlock
like your mother
just this morning
had combed a dream
into your hair,
like you
had never heard
a sermon or
a harsh word
DPF / Hoagland
For the off-kilter moments that somehow equal love, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Windchime / by Tony Hoagland
She goes out to hang the windchime
in her nightie and her work boots.
It’s six-thirty in the morning
and she’s standing on the plastic ice chest
tiptoe to reach the crossbeam of the porch
DPF / Bradstreet
For Valentine’s, from poetryfoundation.org.
from To My Dear and Loving Husband / by Anne Bradstreet
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
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