For dreams and a day for remembering them, from Poetry Foundation. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175662
from In the God’s Dreams / by James Laughlin (1914–1997)
Another night, and this one
was a bit scary, I swam across
the lake with my head under
water, I didn’t have to breathe air.
For drama of the stage kind, from Poetry, December 2014.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/249118
from Fourth of July 2012 / by Robyn Schiff, b. 1973
I remember
a performance of Antigone. She stooped.
There was a wild particle.
For stars and lilies, from Poetry, December, 2014.
from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous / by Ocean Vuong
That your name
is only the sound of clocks
being set back another hour
& morning
For curtains and stoves, from Poetry, December 2014. More on the poet here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/hannah-gamble
from I Wanted to Make Myself like the Ravine / by Hannah Gamble
Analyze the risks
of becoming a ravine.
For solo vowels, from Poetry, January, 2015.
from Figure of Aeolus / by Kevin Craft
Isole Eolie — O hoop
of exhilaration, O sigh of relief
For bears moving slowly, from The Best American Poetry, 2014. Thank you, Rachel! More on the poet, here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/jake-adam-york.
from Calendar Days / by Jake Adam York (1972-2012)
Tomorrow’s
my birthday day in another month, a twelfth
of a reminder of something I can’t remember,
though they say I was there.
For the birds, in the best way, from The Best American Poetry, 2014, Guest Edited by Terrance Hayes, Series Editor David Lehman. More on the poet here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-wrigley
from Blessed Are / by Robert Wrigley, b. 1951
You, faithful ravens, staying on and saying
through the songbirdless winter
the biblical syntax of your declarations.
For Monday, which is not at all exactly like detainment, but something about it comes to mind. This one’s from The Best American Poetry, 2014, Guest Edited by Terrance Hayes, Series Editor David Lehman.
from Detainment / by Greg Wrenn, b. 1979
To break me down, at first one of them kept
tapping on my nose and whispering lyrics,
access codes, rapid sequences of Greek letters
and English surnames.
Another for winter, from Poetry.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175610
from The Snow is Deep on the Ground / by Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)
For green, gold and infinite, from The FSG Book of 20th-Century Latin American Poetry, edited by Ilan Stavans.
from I Dreamed of Classifying… / by Dulce María Loynaz (1902-1997, Cuba) translated by Ilan Stavans
I dreamed of pinning down Good and Evil
in the dark velvet
of a glass box…
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