From The American Poetry Review, November/December 2014.
from With Deborah in Amherst / by Stanley Plumly
It’d been a hard cold year, snow on snow
piled up roof – high
DPF / Morgan
For bees, from A Book of Luminous Things.
from Honey / by Robert Morgan b. 1944
a sealed relic of sun and time
and roots of many acres fixed
DPF / Grennan
For fireflies, from an Irish poet born the same year as my/our mother, and from A Book of Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Woman At Lit Window / by Eamon Grennan b. 1941
among the trees, a host of fireflies
in fragrant silence and native ease
DPF / Chi
For rivers, from A Book of Luminous Things, edtied by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Coming at Night to a Fisherman’s Hut / by Chang Chi (768-830)
Moon rises, fishing boats are few.
DPF / Leith
One last one for the children of October, from An Eyeball in My Garden, edited by Jennifer Cole Judd and Laura Wyncoop.
from Winking Wot Warning / by Debra Leith
The Wots I’ve seen are three feet high,
With pointed feet turned toward the sky.
DPF / Rexroth
For falling leaves, from A Book of Luminous Things, An International Anthology of Poetry, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Signature of All Things / by Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982)
On the mirrored sky and forest
For a while
DPF / De Las Rivas
For gray eyes, from Poetry, October 2014.
from Triptych for the Disused Nonconformist Chapel, Wildhern / by Toby Martinez De Las Rivas
the shattering white late snow of April, the road a vein
of black ore
DPF / Shapiro
For autumn, from The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997, edited by Harold Bloom.
from The Seasons: In Memory of John Cage / by David Shapiro b. 1947
Pencils too heavy to be carried
Dictionaries stuck in the ground
DPF / Francis
For Tao philosophers, from A Book of Luminous Things.
from Waxwings / by Robert Francis 1901-1987
Above an elegance of snow, beneath
a silk – blue sky a brotherhood of four
birds.
DPF / Machej
For patience, from A Book of Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Orchards in July / by Zbigniew Machej, b. 1958, translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass
the green touched with gray, of leaves,
fallen petals of white
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