For birds, bones, and wings, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Waiting Room / by Christine Stewart
We are waiting, grandmother and I, for the white bird.
The black bird grows larger above our heads,
Its immense wings spreading as it dives down
20th-Century Poetry
DPF / Dimitrov
For the JFK roses blooming under the front window, from Poetry, June 2015.
from The Last Luxury, JFK, Jr. / by Alex Dimitrov
Born of the sun, we traveled a short while toward the sun.
Where there were seasons and sky. Where there were monuments.
Like a single engine plane in a July haze.
DPF / Griggs
For mailmen and armchairs, from The Best American Poetry 2014, Guest Editor, Terrance Hayes, Series Editor, David Lehman. A different one from Ms. Griggs, here:
http://www.pw.org/content/sky_girl_rosemary_griggs
from Script Poem / by Rosemary Griggs
CROW (V.O.)
Caw, caw, caw, caw.
DPF / Huidobro
For cantos in winter, from The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry, edited by Ilan Stavans.
from Altazor: Canto III / by Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948, Chile), translated by Eliot Weinberger
The sea is a roof of bottles
That dreams in the sailor’s memory
DPF / Conkling
For the winter garden I’m having trouble watering with the drought’s alternate-watering-day/time schedule, from:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/1783#poem
from Symphony of a Mexican Garden / by Grace Hazard Conkling (1878–1958)
An unimagined music here exhales
In upcurled petal, dreamy bud half-furled,
And variations of thin vivid leaf
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