For the musicians and wonder teachers, from The Babies.
from Box Three, Spool Five / by Sabrina Orah Mark
Behind me I can hear me shuffling closer and closer: Be again. Be. Again. I try very hard to pray with all these hands against my back. I miss the keeper of this accordion.
For spring, from Americanpoems.com.
from Spring and All / by William Carlos Williams
One by one objects are defined—
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf
But now the stark dignity of
entrance—Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted they
grip down and begin to awaken
For parents, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Parents Poem / by Jacqueline Woodson
For St. Patrick’s Day and passing moments, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Wild Swans at Coole / by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
For our mother’s first day in Heaven today, from poetryfoundation.org.
from To a Child / by Sophie Jewett (1861-1909)
For parents, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Night Where You No Longer Live / by Meghan O’Rourke
For mothers and yesterdays, from poetryfoundation.org.
from oh antic God / by Lucille Clifton
For a happy birthday to my sister today, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Journal, Day 46 / by Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour
Truth is, I’m in LA today, at a 2-day conference for experimental poetry called Impunities.
For giraffes and rain, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Rain at the Zoo / by Kristen Tracy
Zebras zipped across the field.
It was springtime in Michigan. I watched
the giraffe shuffle itself backwards, toward
the herd, its bone- and rust-colored fur beading
with water. The entire mix of animals stood
away from the trees.
For the Friday that happens early Saturday morning, from Poems 1962-2012.
from Japonica / by Louise Glück
The rain had stopped. Sunlight
motioned through the leaves.
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