From Fairytale Review, The Emerald Issue. From a fellow, (what’s the feminine of fellow, native?) native Ohioan.
from No Place (Dorothy Reconsiders) / by Rochelle Hurt
Out here the din of tin on tin hangs
just below an orphaned smudge of cumulus
DPF / Davidson
From Crab Orchard Review, Winter/Spring 2014.
from In Ravenna / by Chad Davidson
like rose petals from the extravagant
ceilings of basilicas
DPF / Hall
For rain again, from the Jacaranda Review issue I share with Barry Spacks, Alfred Corn, and Daniel Hall, Fall 1986, Vol. II, No. 1. More here on Daniel Hall:
https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/djhall
from Rainy Season / by Daniel Hall b. 1952
Yes. I could almost see you
hearing it: rising near
but never breaking the surface
DPF / Fu
For snow, from Poem A Day, Vol. 2, editing by Laurie Sheck.
from Written on the Wall at Chang’s Hermitage / by Tu Fu, translated by Kenneth Rexroth (712-770)
You want nothing, although at night
You can see the aura of gold
DPF / Anonymous
For green, from Poem a Day, Vol. 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Green Willow / by Anonymous
O! willow, willow, willow, willow,
O! willow, willow, willow, willow,
DPF / Knox
For godparents, from Sycamore Review, Winter/Spring 1997.
from A Beaker / by Caroline Knox
What did your godparents then for you at this time?
Answer: Silver cup, plate, and spoon
DPF / Edwards
For pretty dresses which now remind me of Elizabeth Gilbert, from Thrush Poetry Journal, an anthology of the first two years. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/september-2012-stevie-edwards.html
from Forgive it All / by Stevie Edwards
There was a glad whimsy music
to that dress —
DPF / Legris
For oxen, from Poetry, September 2014. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/248570
from Studies of an Ox’s Heart, c. 1511-1513 / by Sylvia Legris b. 1960
Cool the controversial hearthstone. Let the blade intervene with the divine intersects bovinity.
DPF / Warren
For palaces, from Poetry, September 2014. More here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/noah-warren
from Across from the Winter Palace / by Noah Warren
In the rose-and-blue windows of the basilica
Today radiant Burghers stood and learned Mercy in a circle
DPF / Fernandez
For rain, from Poetry, September 2014.
from Now the Slow Blood / by Robert Fernandez b. 1980
Slow the slow rain down can rain.
Slow the dead is dead.
Slow the light, light.
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