For the off-kilter moments that somehow equal love, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Windchime / by Tony Hoagland
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
For colors and tapestry, from How to Be Perfect, by Ron Padgett.
from History Lesson / 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.
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
For rain and more rain for our drought, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Rain / by Kazim Ali
For and from our U.S. poet laureate, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Water Water Water Wind Water / by Juan Felipe Herrera
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
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
For the beautiful stuff that fell from the sky this past week, from Cold Pluto.
from Rain Effect / by Mary Ruefle, b. 1952
For love, acceptance, obsessions, and what to take to forever, from West Branch Wired. The whole grand unbelievable believableness of it is here:
http://www.bucknell.edu/west-branch-wired/sabrina-orah-mark.html
from If You Need Me, MOTHER is the Poem Where I’ll Be / by Sabrina Orah Mark
I ask my MOTHER what useless thing she would take with her if she was to go away forever. She wants to know, what do I mean by “useless?” “Like a photograph?” she asks. And then she begins to worry: “What about the necessary things will they have the necessary things where I’m going?” “Forget it,” I say. “This is all too much,” she says. “Plus I think the stock market is crashing.”
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