A prayer, from Poem A Day, Vol. 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Song of the Sky Loom / a Tewa Song, translated by Herbert Joseph Spinders
Then weave for us a garment of brightness;
May the warp be the white light of morning
DPF / Hirsch
For grief, from American Poets, Fall-Winter 2014.
from, from Gabriel / by Edward Hirsch b. 1950
The evening with its lamps burning
The night with its head in its hands
DPF / Harris
For bread and puddles, from Poetry, September, 2014.
from enough food and a mom / by Francine J. Harris
They ghost like the bushel of a snowflower.
Everyone is dead. now. says, the ghost.
DPF / Dashevsky
For Odysseus, from Poetry, The Translation Issue, November 2014.
from From ‘Ithaca’ / by Grigori Dashevsky, translated by Valzhyna Mort
the seer leaves his footprints on the roofs
as he walks home from the future
DPF / Bonnefoy
For the rain and for Jessica, from Poetry Magazine: The Translation Issue, November 2014. More here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/248974
from The Museum / by Yves Bonnefoy, translated by Mary Ann Caws
I took refuge in a museum. Outside the great wind mixed with
water reigns alone from now on, shaking the glass panes.
DPF / McKay
For anyone’s version of Paradise, this one from Jamaica via New York, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from The Tropics in New York / by Claude McKay (1889-1948)
Bananas ripe and green, and ginger-root,
Cocoa in pods and alligator pears
DPF / Amichai
For flowers, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck. It’s very hard for a Plath devotee to post a poem translated by poor Assia Gutmann, the woman claimed in the same historical vortex.
from My Mother Once Told Me / by Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000), translated by Assia Gutmann
My mother once told me
Not to sleep with flowers in the room.
Since then I have not slept with flowers.
DPF / Tewa Song
For weeping willows, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from The Willows by the Water Side / a Tewa Song, translated by Herbert Joseph Spinden
That I remember and therefore I weep.
DPF / Swir
For the sea, from A Book of Luminous Things: 20than international anthology of poetry, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from The Sea and The Man / by Anna Swir (1909-1984), translated from the Polish by Leonard Nathan and Czeslaw Milosz
You will not tame this sea
either by humility or rapture.
DPF / Ryota
Well, it’s the wrong day to sing about spring while snow falls on the television’s football fields, but here it is anyway. This one’s also from Poem A Day, Voume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Spring / by Oshima Ryota (1718-1878), translated by Steven D. Carter
Ah, this world of ours
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