A spring flower for Day 11, from Ariel.
from Tulips / by Sylvia Plath
And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes
Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.
The water I taste is warm and salt, like the sea,
And comes from a country far away as health.
For Day 10 of National Poetry Month, from a local, valley poet, and from american poets: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, Spring-Summer 2016, and from The Darkening Trapeze.
from Ghazal / by Larry Levis
I remember how
My old psychiatrist would pinch his nose between
A thumb and forefinger, look up at me & sigh.
For Day 9 of National Poetry Month, from my shared-name poet and his book, Shadowinnower.
from Witchnomad / by Aguedo Pizarro, translated by Barbara Stoler Miller
brightflight of the egretdance,
speed of your dreamcalling,
dunesalt in the sandvoid
For Day 8 of National Poetry Month, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Let Me Tell You What A Poem Brings / by Juan Felipe Herrera
For Day 7 of National Poetry Month, from poetryfoundation.org.
from A Poem for Painters / by John Wieners (1934-2002)
For Day 6 of National Poetry Month, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Missing Poem / by Mark Halliday
With lightness!
With weight and lightness and, on the hypothetical radio,
that certain song you almost forgot to love.
For Day 5 of National Poetry Month, from poetryfoundation.org.
from City At Night / by James Tate
A seer bobs along, oblivious or beguiled.
I look for my reflection in a window:
Goodnight Joe, Goodnight Joe, Goodnight.
For Jean Justice, Dr. Justice’s wife, who died March 30, 2016. Dr. Justice was the Chair on my Masters Thesis Committee at UF. From Collected Poems.
from Poem [“This poem is not addressed to you”] / by Donald Justice
For poetry, from The Apple That Astonished Paris.
from Introduction to Poetry / by Billy Collins
For Day 2 of National Poetry Month, from poetryfoundation.org. Will be looking for poems about poetry this month.
from Five Poems about Poetry / by George Oppen
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