DPF / Skinner

For the love of books and for a day more like heaven than not, from poetryfoundation.org.

from The Bookshelf of the God of Infinite Space / by Jeffrey Skinner

You would expect an uncountable number,
Acres and acres of books in rows
Like wheat or gold bullion. Or that the words just
Appear in the mind, like banner headlines.

DPF / Matejka

For sparkling things, from poetryfoundation.org.

from Map to the Stars / by Adrian Matejka

There are more kinds of stars
in this universe than salt granules on drive-thru fries. Too many
stars, lessening & swelling with each pedal pump away from
the Value Village

DPF / Saiser

Happy Thanksgiving (from poetryfoundation.org).

from Thanksgiving for Two / by Marjorie Saiser

Little did we know that first picnic
how this would go. Your hair was thick,

mine long and easy; we climbed a bluff
to look over a storybook plain. We chose
our spot as high as we could, to see

the river and the checkerboard fields.
What we didn’t see was this day, in
our pajamas if we want to,

DPF / Kaminsky

For an amazing poet I missed in Iowa City by a few hours, from Poetryfoundation.org.

from Deaf Republic: 14 / by Ilya Kaminsky

thank you for my deafness, Lord, such fire

from a match you never lit.