From APR, May/June 2014. How about a wind-sky-cloud theme for the week? More on Allen at:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/dick-allen
from The Zen Master Speaks of Unaccountable Days
It’s true, they went like the wind,
but they also went like the blue sky sometimes does
out over the Atlantic
More birds. From The Heat Bird (1983), the book, and from the poem of the same name. More at:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/mei-mei-berssenbrugge
from The Heat Bird / by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
luminous space in their wings showed against the sky
giving each a great delicacy in turns
Yes, it’s from Bright Wings.
from Rara Avis / by Brendan Constantine
When interviewed, the bird watchers gave
quick, birdlike answers.
More birds. Yes, it’s from Bright Wings again, ed. by Collins. The paintings by Sibley are worth the purchase, too.
from The Birds / by Robert Creeley
I want
to ride that air which makes the sea
seem down there, not the element
in which one thrashes to come up.
This bird’s from The Penguin Book of Women Poets, ed. by Carol Cosman, Joan Keefeand, and Kathleen Weaver. That’s two birds in one. 🙂
from Selected Epigrams / by Kassia, trans. by Patrick Diehl
A nun’s life — free as a bird.
For Bird Week. Maybe not the raven you were expecting. This one’s from Contemporary Russian Poetry, edited by Gerald S. Smith, 1993.
from The Raven / by Elena Shvarts, trans. by Gerald S. Smith
An old Raven asked for my heart
To take away to its baby ravens
Birds this week. Needing a bluebird of happiness today. Best known for Walden, he was a poet first. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/601
from The Bluebirds / by Henry David Thoreau
In the midst of the poplar that stands by the door,
We planted a bluebird box
For this week’s back-to-work theme, an easy one: birds. This one’s from Bright Wings, the anthology edited by Billy Collins with paintings by David Allen Sibley. Less than eight months to Christmas. 🙂
from Christmas Sparrow / by Billy Collins
breathing there
among the metallic angels, ceramic apples, stars of yarn
Thematically last for the week: American poet, writing in the 1980’s, and a woman. This one’s from her book, Instructions to the Double, 1976.
from Cows, A Vision / by Tess Gallagher
The cows were never born. They came
with the land
Another: woman, American, writing in the 1980’s. This one’s from her book Countries, published in 1980. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/523
from Van Gogh’s Room / by Anne Waldman
green window
red blanket
blue door
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