PIA: in 100 degrees, a little mind of winter.
For the beauty of Chinese poetry, from Negative Blue.
from After Reading Wang Wei, I Go Outside to the Full Moon / by Charles Wright
Back here, old snow like lace cakes,
Candescent and brittle now and then through the tall grass.
PIA: from a May 24th.
When under stress, try Tate. For the care and feeding of the imagination, from The Eternal Ones of the Dream.
from Behind the Milk Bottle / by James Tate
Once as a river of molten lava
poured through my living room
I was cut off from my emergency kit
For more dreams, from Lillian, Fred, a chapbook from BOAAT Press. It can be found here: http://www.boaatpress.com/pdf/.
from XX / by Alison Strub
Fred says my dream about the one time I had a clock and then it broke means I am going to accomplish something great today.
For mice, from Dress Made of Mice.
from Hidden Dolls House / by Sarah Messer
the mother cried, Help me lift this kettle
off the fire, daughter, and the hired
man ran for water.
PIA: from April 10, 2016.
For Day 10 of National Poetry Month, from a local, valley poet, and from american poets: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, Spring-Summer 2016, and from The Darkening Trapeze.
from Ghazal / by Larry Levis
I remember how
My old psychiatrist would pinch his nose between
A thumb and forefinger, look up at me & sigh.
PIA: from a May 17th.
For basalt eggs and swans’ feet, from North.
from The Grauballe Man / by Seamus Heaney
As if he had been poured
in tar, he lies
on a pillow of turf
and seems to weep
For a poet with the same last name (maiden name) from Shadowinnower.
from Spectral Sandtrees / by Agueda Pizarro, translated by Barbara Stoler Miller (with the poet)
Farshore,
I know
that your feet
like mine
grow
spectral sandtrees
while you run
PIA: from May 21, 2106.
For 10K’s on the beach and the hopes that we will fly like fleas, and for Mr. Knox, and Dad, from Fox in Socks.
from Fox in Socks / by Dr. Seuss
Through three cheese trees
three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew,
freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made
these three trees freeze.
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