From Poetry magazine, December, 2014.
from [Persian Letters] / by Solmaz Sharif
Like Ovid: I’ll have no last words.
DPF / Cohen
For kindling, from poets.org, Poem-A-Day, today.
from In the dark we crush / by Julia Cohen
Moss smuggles stars into your cheeks.
DPF / Södergran
For childhood, from The Star by My Head, edited and translated from the Swedish by Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström.
from The Trees of My Childhood / by Edith Sodergran (1892-1923)
Now we’d like to tell you your life’s secret:
the key to all secrets is in the grass on the raspberry slope.
DPF / Lundquist
For botanical gardens, from The Star By My Head.
from No one will believe me / by Marie Lundquist b. 1950
but there was a time when a woman received compliments for her Pre-Raphaelite colors and the word fortune appeared as a small, enclosed warmth
DPF / Lugn
For words and tiny stitches, from The Star By My Head.
from The Nights Have Become Bigger / by Kristina Lugn b. 1948
soon there is no room for them
in my head anymore
DPF / Tranströmer
For silence, from The Star By My Head: Poets from Sweden, edited and translated by Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström.
from April and Silence / by Tomas Tranströmer b. 1931
All I want to say
gleams out of reach
DPF / Tagore
For winter, from Poetry.
from I Will Not Let You Go / by Rabindranath Tagore
On all sides stretches a sun-flooded night void of speech or sound or sign of life.
DPF / Jackson
For skating – rink nights, from APR, November/December 2014. (12/5/14 was from APR, too.)
from Paradise Skate / by Marcus Jackson
the wall wore a mural of a tropical beach,
parrots squawking in the painted trees
DPF / Liu
For lip-synced songs, from Poetry, December, 2014.
from Sold Out / by Timothy Liu
We’re going to
the best fire-
works show ever!
DPF / Emerson
For calendars and hospitals, from Poetry, December 2014. Sad to lose another poet this year.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse/178/3#!/20605323
from Daybook / by Claudia Emerson (1957-2014)
This is the season of her dying, and you
have kept it, I find, underneath the stairs
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