Silence for this week. Love this one. More here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/what-he-thought
from What He Thought / by Heather McHugh
“What’s poetry?
Is it the fruits and vegetables
and marketplace at Campo dei Fiori
or the statue there?”
Poetry
DPF / Poe
More dreaming. I know I missed Berryman this week, but I’m still attempting not to repeat poets for as many months as I can hold out. And, more here, again:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/dream-within-dream
from A Dream Within a Dream / by Edgar Allan Poe b. 1809
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
DPF / Ras
More dreams. And, more here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/book-said-dream-and-i-do
from Book Said Dream and I Do / by Barbara Ras b. 1949
The feathers of the birds made the air soft, softer
than the quiet in a cocoon waiting for wings
DPF / Woloch
Another dream. Today, I dream of my daughter, who woke to thirteen, turned teen overnight.
from Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea / by Cecilia Woloch
I was leaving a country of rain for a country of apples. I hadn’t much time.
DPF / Hejinian
DPF / Dylan
Well, the elves escaped me. And, if I could figure out why scheduled poems won’t post on schedule, it would be lovely! I thought of doing a week of Faerie Queene, but decided to change over the theme to dreams, so I could continue my attempt not to repeat writers for a bit. This one’s for Sam, Susan, and Dr. Justice. More at:
www. bobdylan.com/us/songs
from Had a Dream About You, Baby / by Bob Dylan
You got a rage wrapped around your head
Wearing a long dress fire engine red
I had a dream about you, baby
DPF / Spenser
For this week, I’m looking for elves. This one’s from The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Fourth Edition, Volume I. This poem’s a most famous place to find a 16th-century “elf.” (The post for May 17th was “scheduled” but reverted to a draft. Chronologically, my last bird and first elf, then, will fly in one right after the other.)
from The Faerie Queene / by Edmund Spenser
‘Goe caytive Elfe, him quickly overtake,
And soone redeeme from his long wandering woe…’
DPF / Field
And, more blue. Irresistible title. Full text here: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/blue-beautiful-amy-story-so-90s
from Blue Is Beautiful Amy but the Story Is So the ‘90s / by Farrah Field
Everyone wanted to see a movie where the woman turns to stone.
DPF / Levine
More blue. http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/blue-wood.
from In a Blue Wood / by Richard Levine
The couple in Van Gogh’s blue wood is walking
where there is no path
DPF / Halebsky
More unexpectedly blue.
from My Father Remembers Blue Zebras / by Judy Halebsky
He knows about the rainshadow
and the string of islands off the coast of Vancouver
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