For a week early, from Domestic Fugues, by Richard Newman.
from Bless Their Hearts / by Richard Newman
Another for the day, from Poetryfoundation.org.
from The City’s Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War / by James Doyle
For the day, from Academy of American Poets.
from The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner / by Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
For weather reports, from the weather, by Lisa Robertson.
from Monday / by Lisa Robertson, b.1961
The day pours out space, a light red roominess, bright and fresh. Bright and oft. Bright and fresh.
For a little bit of needed magic, from Poetryfoundation.org.
from Nights on Planet Earth / by Campbell McGrath
For the littlest ones and chaplains, from American Poets, Spring-Summer 2014.
from ICU / by Spencer Reece
In the neonatal ICU, newborns breathed,
blue, spider-delicate in nests of tubes.
A Sunday of themselves, their tissue purpled,
their eyelids the film on old water in a well
For yellow books, from my childhood library.
from The Happy Book / by Patricia Martin Zens
And happy tastes, like pumpkin pies,
And anyone about my size.
For bats in polka dot bathing suits, from my little boy’s library.
from Bats on the Beach / by Brian Lies
Little bats dig their sand caves deep,
as old bats lie in the moon, asleep.
For postcards and rivers, from The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry.
from Wish You Were Here / by Mary Ann Samyn
Then, cranes, three: a dream, a painting, a photograph.
For art, from The Rose Metal Field Guide to Prose Poetry.
from Lisboa, 1755 / by Tung-Hui Hu
I was watching Joao Manuel de Lourenco fashion a ring out of some inscrutable alloy
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