For parents, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Parents Poem / by Jacqueline Woodson
For a happy birthday to my sister today, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Journal, Day 46 / by Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour
Truth is, I’m in LA today, at a 2-day conference for experimental poetry called Impunities.
For giraffes and rain, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Rain at the Zoo / by Kristen Tracy
Zebras zipped across the field.
It was springtime in Michigan. I watched
the giraffe shuffle itself backwards, toward
the herd, its bone- and rust-colored fur beading
with water. The entire mix of animals stood
away from the trees.
For the Friday that happens early Saturday morning, from Poems 1962-2012.
from Japonica / by Louise Glück
The rain had stopped. Sunlight
motioned through the leaves.
For color and light, from The Best of It.
from Every Painting by Chagall / by Kay Ryan
every air fish, smudged Russian,
red horse, yellow chicken, assumes
its position not actually beside
but in some friendly distribution
For flocks of angels, from Soul in Space, by Noelle Kocot.
from This is Your Life / by Noelle Kocot
Then, just like that, a devoted silence
Dissolved into the night like a flock of angels.
What more could I have wanted?
For delay, from The Best of It.
from Grazing Horses / by Kay Ryan
Sometimes the
green pasture
of the mind
tilts abruptly.
For making metaphor-making look as simple as breathing, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Casualty / by Seamus Heaney
For dreams of the other kind, from Poetry, March 2016.
from Want / by Gretchen Marquette
When I was twelve, I wanted a macaw
but they cost hundreds of dollars.
If we win the lottery? I asked.
For ways of travel, real and surreal, from Senegal Taxi, by Juan Felipe Herrera, our Poet Laureate.
from Mud Drawing #32. Ibrahim, the Village Boy / by Juan Felipe Herrera
…I slowed my taxi I opened the soft door stepped out Sahel too and Abdullah the waters of the ocean flushed us out of the taxi on a round street under the dark winged stone of the sun.
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