For a tense election night, from poetryfoundation.org.
from My Mother Goes to Vote / by Judith Harris
I remember, in the classroom converted
into a voting place—
there were two mothers, conversing,
squeezed into the children’s desk chairs.
21st-Century Poetry
DPF / Saiser
For the season, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Thanksgiving for Two / by Marjorie Saiser
We are the feast, plenty of years,
arguments. I’m thinking the whole bundle of it
rolls out like a white tablecloth. We wanted
to be good company for one another.
Little did we know that first picnic
how this would go.
DPF / Hale
For running for time, for speed, for distance, for fun, or for one or any combination of the four, from The American Poetry Review, Nov/Dec 2016.
from Waiting on the Time Machine / by Chasity Hale
I think
running is the closest thing to time travel
that I may ever experience in my lifetime–
somehow, I become younger than I am,
younger than I was.
DPF / Ochester
For good and obsessive first lines and for the season, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Fall / by Ed Ochester
Crows, crows, crows, crows
DPF / Chen
For the upcoming season, from The Best American Poetry 2015, guest editor Sherman Alexie, and series editor David Lehman.
from for i will do/undo what was done/undone to me / by Chen Chen
i pledge allegiance to the weather
report that promises more snow, plus freezing rain.
though i would minus the pluvial & plus the multitude
of messages pressed muddy into the perfectly
mutable snow
DPF / Dove
For the first day of November, from poetryfoundation.org.
from November for Beginners / by Rita Dove
Snow would be the easy
way out—that softening
sky like a sigh of relief
DPF / Judd
For the day! Happy Birthday, Jen, and Happy Halloween to those of you who celebrate it, from An Eyeball in My Garden, edited by Jennifer Cole Judd and Laura Wynkoop.
from My Date with Mummy / by Jennifer Cole Judd
I’ve burned the scones and muffins,
And brewed my blackest tea.
Everything must be just right
For Mummy’s date with me.
DPF / Wynkoop
For the season, from a book of friends, An Eyeball in My Garden, edited by Jennifer Cole Judd and Laura Wynkoop.
from Witch’s Shopping List / by Laura Wynkoop
Stinging nettles
Mandrake root
Stomach of a spotted newt
Powdered wolfsbane
Lace-wing flies
Forty spiny spiker eyes
Alder broomstick
Mugwort tea
Berries from a hawthorn tree
DPF / Mitchell-Foust
For taking hundreds of photographs a week, from Poetry, November 2016.
from Camera Eulogia / by Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Herodotus says the king made a bowl to leave behind
the memory of a number. We don’t know the number.
We don’t know if it was divisible by two or three.
DPF / Collins
For speeding through the world, as those athletes did today at the Central California Cross Country Conference #3! Congratulations to my Varsity girl and her #5 place today, which, with points from CCC#1 and CCC#2, earned her a spot on the 2016 Central Valley All-Conference Cross Country Team! From Nine Horses.
from Velocity / by Billy Collins
We must always look at things
from the point of view of eternity,
the college theologians used to insist,
from which, I imagine, we would all
appear to have speed lines trailing behind us
as we rush along the road of the world.
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