For oranges and sleep, from How to Be Perfect, by Ron Padgett.
from How to Be Perfect / by Ron Padgett
Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room
before you save the world. Then save the world.
21st-Century American Poetry
DPF / Padgett
For colors and tapestry, from How to Be Perfect, by Ron Padgett.
from History / by Ron Padgett
I think that Geoffrey Chaucer did not move
the way a modern person moves.
He moved only an inch at a time, in what
we call stop action.
DPF / Collins
For peace again, the rarest of all things, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Silence / by Billy Collins
There is the sudden silence of the crowd
above a player not moving on the field,
and the silence of the orchid.
DPF / Hoagland
For the off-kilter moments that somehow equal love, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Windchime / by Tony Hoagland
She goes out to hang the windchime
in her nightie and her work boots.
It’s six-thirty in the morning
and she’s standing on the plastic ice chest
tiptoe to reach the crossbeam of the porch
DPF / Musgrave
For the last day of the 2015-2016 football season. It’s always sad to see the season go, but I do like fairytale endings. Today’s poem’s from poetryfoundation.org.
from Dew / by David Musgrave
Half their lives are spent in clouds
of condensation or the cold heat
of a winter sun where even the crowds
seem like droplets on the concrete
rose of the stadium.
DPF / Howe
For planets, like the ones we research with our fifth grader every weekend, from poetryfoundation.org. Did I say, “every weekend”? I meant every weekend.
from Three Persons / by Fanny Howe
Their winter systems
sparkle like the diamonds
that pelt Neptune.
DPF / Herrera
For and from our U.S. poet laureate, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Water Water Water Wind Water / by Juan Felipe Herrera
alabama wind calls alabama
and the roofs blow across red clouds
inside the divine spiral
there is a voice
DPF / Padgett
For sonnets and muses, from How to Be Perfect, by Ron Padgett.
from The Art of the Sonnet / by Ron Padgett
Last night I said hello
to the little muse
the smaller than usual muse
DPF / Goodfellow
For beautiful comma beautiful punctuation comma from a new and lovely book comma Mendeleev’s Mandala. Thank you, Jessica!
from The Function of the Comma is to Separate / by Jessica Goodfellow
For instance: the clock in this room is loud comma relentless comma repetitive comma annoying
DPF / Ruefle
For the beautiful stuff that fell from the sky this past week, from Cold Pluto.
from Rain Effect / by Mary Ruefle, b. 1952
shining like satin on the black street,
on the tips of patent leather shoes, Hokusai’s
father who polished mirrors for a living, Hokusai’s
father watching the sky for clouds, Hokusai’s father’s son
drawing rain over a bridge and over the people crossing
the bridge
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