For rising to the occasion, which is hopefully what will happen on this day, from Picnic, Lightning.
from What I Learned Today / by Billy Collins
I had never heard of John Bernard Flannagan,
American sculptor,
until I found him on page 961
of the single-volume encyclopedia I am reading
at the rate of one page each day.
For weather, from an Iowan’s poem, from poetryfoundation.org. Our weather page here in the valley scheduled rain for every day this week; in our time of drought, anything from the sky met mostly ecstatic umbrellas this week.
from Ode to a Blizzard / by Tom Disch
For the love of vowels, from Poetry, January 2017.
from An Owl (in Memory of Gil) / by David Shapiro
Owl small be enough
The child for all his feathers was a cold.
Oh wow the owl.
For you, who teach every day, whether it’s a matter of pay or not, from Rattle 53, Fall 2016.
from Sestina for Adjuncts / by Rebecca Snow
Enough clothes and books should fit in our car-home; keep
putting the students first. Remember to teach them critical thinking. Fate
holds us by the string, urges us to be a kite, but doesn’t let us go anywhere.
For the future I’d like to meet in each moment and not know a second ahead of time, from Poetry, October 2016.
from Time Traveler / by Patrick Cotter
Now is before he was born. Days of air
shaken by bees, crow song probing eaves
and quays. Maker of the future a perfect
terra-cotta tense, a tense which sings.
For many wishes for a kind and gentle first day of 2017, from poetryfoundation.org.
from New Year / by Bei Dao (Zhao Zhenkai), translated by David Hinton
For wishing you a Happy New Year’s Eve and a Happy New Year, from DPF and poetryfoundation.org.
from New Year’s Poem / by Margaret Avison
For the week, from poetryfoundation.org. The rest of the poem may be found here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/55670#poem.
from on new year’s eve / by Evie Shockley
For ladybugs, from poetryfoundation.org.
from December / by Roger Pfingston
For some days we need angels more than others, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Angel / by Angela Jackson
I am
the angel who sweeps air in and out my own
dancing body.
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