For our fathers, from Poetry, December 2016.
from The Mask Now / by Jorie Graham
In last week wore red sleepmask over eyes day and night. Would
ride it up onto his forehead for brief intervals, then down, pulled by
hand that still worked. A bit. Sometimes shaking too much so just
cried eyes.
For rose of salt and carnations, from poetryfoundation.org.
from One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII / by Pablo Neruda, translated by Mark Eisner
I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love,
except in this form in which I am not nor are you,
so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my dreams.
For after the big meal, from Poetry, the December 2016 issue, which arrived in the mail today!
from After the Dinner Party / by Adrienne Su
Dropping napkins, corks, and non-compostables
into the trash, I see that friends have mistaken
my everyday chopsticks for disposables.
PIA: from November 24, 2014.
For art and rain, from Poetry Magazine: The Translation Issue, November 2014. More here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/248974
from The Museum / by Yves Bonnefoy, translated by Mary Ann Caws
For the season, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Fall, leaves, fall / by Emily Brontë
Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.
PIA: from November 27,2015.
For trees, from The Complete Poems of Howard Nemerov.
from Learning the Trees / by Howard Nemerov (1920-1991)
For I’m ever thankful for family and friends here and passed on, and ever thankful for our sun and moon and Earth and for poets and poetry and for John Berryman, especially The Dream Songs.
from The Dream Songs: 30 / by John Berryman
Is there anyone in the audience who has lived in vain?
For Thanksgiving Eve, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Yam / by Bruce Guernsey
The potato that ate all its carrots,
can see in the dark like a mole
For something to cover everything, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Snow on the Desert / by Agha Shahid Ali
For autumn, from poetryfoundation.org .
from The Beautiful Changes / by Richard Wilbur
The beautiful changes as a forest is changed
By a chameleon’s tuning his skin to it;
As a mantis, arranged
On a green leaf, grows
Into it, makes the leaf leafier, and proves
Any greenness is deeper than anyone knows.
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