For Henry and John, from 77 Dream Songs.
from 77 Dream Songs: 13 / by John Berryman
God bless Henry. He lived like a rat,
with a thatch of hair on his head
in the beginning.
Henry was not a coward. Much.
He never deserted anything; instead
he stuck, when things like pity were thinning.
For the welcome cold and rainy day, from poetryfoundation.org.
from A January Dandelion / by George Marion McClellan
For the week, from Poetry, December 2016.
from Poem for the New Year / by Devin Johnston
what have I read
how many words
what facts
statistics biometrics
what data aggregation
what news
of wins and losses
For saying goodbye to family after the holidays, including goodbye to my sweet, wee little sis, from poetryfoundation.org.
from sisters / by Lucille Clifton
For a Merry Christmas or a happy whichever holiday you choose, from poetryfoundation.org.
from [little tree] / by e.e. Cummings
little tree
little silent Christmas tree
you are so little
you are more like a flower
who found you in the green forest
and were you very sorry to come away?
see i will comfort you
because you smell so sweetly
i will kiss your cool bark
and hug you safe and tight
just as your mother would,
only don’t be afraid
PIA: from December 31, 2014.
For the passing year, from The Best American Poetry, 2014.
from In My Last Past Life / by Hailey Leithauser
a forest and love and a river, and grief
was a ghost hidden green in the leaves,
an echo off cliffs that bound back the sea
For the trees, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Christmas Trees / by Robert Frost
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
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
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