From american poet, Spring – Summer 2014.
from Taproot and Cradle / by Kaled Mattawa
O pen of late arrivals.
O knife of darkened temples.
DPF / Boullosa
From Mouth to Mouth.
from Dark Water / by Carmen Oscura translated by Brady Earnhart
unending sound,
unending incomprehension
DPF / Nurske
For planets, from Poetry, September, 2014.
from Venus / by D. Nurske
But no. When you get there
it is a light in the sky
DPF / Eberhart
I met Richard Eberhart in a poetry workshop which he led for a day at UF, in 1987 or 1988. He very kindly passed Emily Dickinson’s handshake to me: from her hand to an intervening hand to his hand to mine. This one’s from The Voice That is Great Within Us, an anthology from 1970, edited by Hayden Carruth.
from Flux / by Richard Eberhart (1904–2005)
The fogs are as unpredictable as the winds.
The next generation comes surely on
DPF / Baus
For forests, from poem-a-day today at Poets.org. More here:
http://www.poets.org/
from The Forest Formed Gills / by Eric Baus
The tentacles muttered. Eat a bee.
DPF / Millay
For memory, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/edna-st-vincent-millay
from Recuerdo / by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
We were very tired, we were very merry —
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.
DPF / Rosenthal
For roses, from Chicago Review, Volume 23, Number 4, and Volume 25, Number 1.
from Old Man with Shears Among Roses / by Abby Rosenthal
Roses tumble noiselessly
through air.
DPF / Oleschinski
For mothers, from Poetry, October-November 1998.The title in German is, “Angefrorener Tang”.
from Frozen Seaweed / by Brigitte Oleschinski, translated by Andrew Shields
on the beach, and up above along the twilit herringbone
promenade, the stiff
stolid lamp disks
DPF / Brecht
For the flowers, from Poetry, October-November 1998.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/bertolt-brecht
from The Greenhouse / by Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), translated by Ursula Runde
where the debris of exotic flowers
lies in the shadow of the worn canvas
DPF / Manning
For Oz, from Fairy Tale Review, The Emerald Issue. More here:
http://fairytalereview.com/tag/the-emerald-issue/
from No Place Like / by Katie Manning
A few months after
the storm, Dorothy asked
to paint the farmhouse
emerald green.
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