For peace, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Ode on Solitude / by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter fire
DPF / Kutik
For the sea, from Poetry, November 2014, The Translation Issue.
from Sea Sickness / by Ilya Kutik, translated by Reginald Gibbons and the author
What’s left of my battles and my turmoil
is in my seaside cabin
DPF / Ó Ríordáin
For horses, from Poetry, November 2014. An Irish poem from The Translation Issue.
from Switch / by Seán Ó Ríordáin
the two, too-big eyes that were speechless with sorrow
DPF / Herrera
For heroes of every kind, from Poetry Foundation.
from In The Cannery the Porpoise Soul / by Juan Felipe Herrera
the mayor is waiting/counting scales
DPF / Limón
For native fields, from APR, November/December 2014.
from The Rewilding / by Ada Limón
I don’t want to be only the landscape: the bone’s buried.
DPF / Cavafy
For crowns and scrolls, from A Book of Luminous Things: an international anthology of poetry, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Waiting for the Barbarians / by Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933)
Why are they carrying elegant canes
beautifully worked in silver and gold?
DPF / Treadwell
For struggles, from APR, November/December 2014. More here:
http://www.elizabethtreadwell.com/
from Bear Flag Anthem / by Elizabeth Treadwell
pressed by wave & peak
the bitter halls of anthropology
DPF / Wat
For bells, from A Book of Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Songs of a Wanderer / by Aleksander Wat (1900-1967)
So beautiful the lungs
are breathless.
DPF / Kooser
For elderly couples, from American Poets, Fall – Winter 2014.
from Splitting an Order / by Ted Kooser
and then to wait, offering the plate to his wife
DPF / Lycurgus
For doorways, from APR, Nov/Dec 2014.
from Late, in a Time of Splendor / by Cate Lycurgus
It was stunning at the bodega. Rain all night
then steam, lifting
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