For childbirth. Another from Love Poems by Women, ed. by Wendy Mulford (1990).
from Now That I Am Forever With Child / by Audre Lorde (1934–1992)
How the days went
while you were blooming within me
I remember each upon each —
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DPF / Ríos
From a beautiful poet for the sky. More here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/alberto-rios
from A Small Story about the Sky / by Alberto Ríos b. 1952
Finally the fire
Caught the sky,
Which acted like a slow rabbit
Which had made a miscalculation.
DPF / Medaksé
Another from Love Poems by Women, ed. by Wendy Mulford (1990).
from It’s No Secret / by Medaksé b. 1933
Every wash has its own biography and reveals
the people in a house, their size,
their taste, even what they love.
DPF / Gallagher
From a firstborn for firstborns. This one’s also from Love Poems by Women, ed. by Wendy Mulford (1990).
from Firstborn / by Katherine Gallagher b. 1935
my dozy lone-traveler set down at last
DPF / Fourtouni
Another for dreams. This one’s from Love Poems by Women, ed. by Wendy Mulford (1990).
from In a Dream / by Eleni Fourtouni, trans. by Eleni Fourtouni
no, you were not putting seeds in the soft earth
no, you were not pruning the vines
no, you were not taking in the smells and the visions
DPF / Crane
For elegies. No Crane yet? This one’s from Chief Modern Poets of Britain and America, Fifth Edition, ed. by Sanders, Nelson and Rosenthal. A fellow Ohioan.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/hart-crane
from Royal Palm / by Hart Crane (1899-1932)
Green rustlings, more than regal charities
Drift coolly from that tower of whispered light.
DPF / Bly
For the crows. This one’s from Contemporary American Poetry, ed. by Donald Hall (1962). A bio here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-bly
from Where We Must Look for Help / by Robert Bly b. 1926
On the third day the crow shall fly;
The crow, the crow, the spider-coloured crow
DPF / Dimoula
For statues. This one’s from Greek Women Poets, ed. by Eleni Fourtouni (1978).
from Mark of Recognition / by Kiki Dimoula, b. 1931
You can’t even
weigh a few raindrops in your hands,
or pick a daisy.
DPF / Oroño
For poetry. This one’s from Ploughshares, Spring 2014, Vol. 40, No. 1.
http://www.pshares.org/read/author-detail.cfm?intAuthorID=7709
from Elegy for the Road / by Tatiana Oroño, b.1947, trans. by Jesse Lee Kercheval
I ask where the things go that did not arrive at their destination.
DPF / Keats
One for Shakespeare from Keats. This one’s from Great Sonnets, ed. by Paul Negri.
from On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Again / by John Keats (1795–1821)
When through the old oak Forest I am gone,
Let me not wander in a barren dream
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