Month: July 2016
DPF / Heaney
PIA: from a May 17th.
For basalt eggs and swans’ feet, from North.
from The Grauballe Man / by Seamus Heaney
As if he had been poured
in tar, he lies
on a pillow of turf
and seems to weep
DPF / Pizarro
For a poet with the same last name (maiden name) from Shadowinnower.
from Spectral Sandtrees / by Agueda Pizarro, translated by Barbara Stoler Miller (with the poet)
Farshore,
I know
that your feet
like mine
grow
spectral sandtrees
while you run
DPF / Seuss
PIA: from May 21, 2106.
For 10K’s on the beach and the hopes that we will fly like fleas, and for Mr. Knox, and Dad, from Fox in Socks.
from Fox in Socks / by Dr. Seuss
Through three cheese trees
three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew,
freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made
these three trees freeze.
DPF / Ryan
PIA: from June 27, 2016.
For those unexpected visitors, forest animals and rhymes when you least expect them, from The Best of It.
from Deer / by Kay Ryan
To lure a single swivel ear,
one tentative twig of a leg,
or a nervous tail here,
is to mark this place
as the emperor’s park,
rife, I say rife, with deer.
DPF / Messer
For mice and mice oracles, from Dress Made of Mice.
from Interrogation of the Room’s Unseen Presence / by Sarah Messer
Has this miracle had any effect? If your soul is lost, how long will it be lost? As you gazed, who stood beside you?
DPF / Armantrout
PIA: from July 26, 2014.
This one’s from Poetry magazine, May 2012. More here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/rae-armantrout
from And / by Rae Armantrout b. 1947
the sour grass flower;
the yellow moth.
DPF / Igloria
For Happy 4th of July! From poetryfoundation.org.
from Fireworks, Harborfest / by Luisa A. Igloria
Only when the fireworks burst
above our heads can we forgive
them their pleasure.
DPF / Spacks
PIA: from July 27, 2014.
Any day is a good day for myth making. This one’s from Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 3rd Edition, ed. by XJ Kennedy (1983). More here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/barry-spacks
from Teaching the Penguins to Fly / by Barry Spacks (1931-2014)
it’s nothing like easy to start them moving;
she’ll leap and flap her arms to teach
the big idea
DPF / Schuyler
PIA July: from July 2, 2014.
More for the flowers. This one’s from The New American Poetry, ed. by Donald M. Allen (1960).
from Salute / by James Schuyler (1923-1991)
to gather one
of each kind of clover,
daisy, paintbrush that
grew in that field
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