PIA: from October 31, 2015.
For pointy hats and black cats, from Poetry, March, 1926.
from One Time At Salem / by Louise Webster
She said that she could make a moon
And some folks knew it,
And if they didn’t mend their ways
She’d up and do it.
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DPF / Rankine
PIA: from October 30, 2015, with apologies for the day’s delay. Another rain dance headed your way. We had a cloud or two, today, but not a drop.
Among so many unforgettable images and moments, let this one be for the rain. From Citizen, by Claudia Rankine.
from I / by Claudia Rankine
The rain this morning pours from the gutters and everywhere else it is lost in the trees.
DPF / Pavese
PIA: from September 2015.
For rain, rain, rain which hides its face from us, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Cats Will Know / by Cesare Pavese, translated by Geoffrey Brock
Rain will fall again
on your smooth pavement,
a light rain like
a breath or a step.
The breeze and the dawn
will flourish again
when you return,
as if beneath your step.
Between flowers and sills
the cats will know.
DPF / Heaney
For medieval literature and Irish classics and lines that remind me of the wells and springs of the Kentucky mountains, from Sweeney Astray.
from Sweeney Astray: 40 / by Seamus Heaney
The springs I always liked
were the fountain at Dunmall
and the spring-well on Knocklayde
that tasted pure and cool.
DPF / Holmes
PIA: from September 26, 2014.
For Emily, from The Ms of M y Kin, a book of erasures made fromThe Poems of Emily Dickinson. More by Holmes here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/01/journal-day-three-24/?woo
from 1861.7 (217-223) / by Janet Holmes
somebody bring the light
So
DPF / Murphy
PIA: from September 25, 2014.
For moths, from the University of Florida journal,subtropics, Winter/Spring 2011.
from Dear Winged / by Erin Murphy
Cacophony of moths. Fragile
as egg shells.
DPF / Levine
For another rain dance, from American Poets in the 21st Century, edited by Claudia Rankine & Lisa Sewell. We’ve had .04 inches of rain since May 1, 2016.
from John Keats / by Mark Levine
And we saw thunder
float above us in a spool of cloud.
DPF / Pinsky
For Horace and Brutus and Sunday-night thoughts of posterity, from An Explanation of America.
from Part Two: Its Great Emptiness, IV. Filling the Blank / by Robert Pinsky
While for our children we are bound to aspire
Differently: something like a nest or farm;
So that the cycle of different aspirations
Threads through posterity
DPF / Hulme
For the season and a beautiful autumn day at the cross-country meet, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Autumn / by T.E. Hulme
A touch of cold in the Autumn night—
I walked abroad,
And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge
Like a red-faced farmer.
DPF / Glowney
PIA: from September 30, 2014 .
For maps, from Crab Orchard Review, Summer / Fall 2014.
from Map Making / by John Glowney
Geography is blue mostly. Serene sheet,
azure mirror
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