And, another poem in lieu of a rain dance. Like rain, miss you, Jane Kenyon. The rest of the poem, here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/heavy-summer-rain
from Heavy Summer Rain / by Jane Kenyon (1947 – 1995)
Everything blooming bows down in the rain:
white irises, red peonies; and the poppies
For Navajo myths, from Chicago Review, Volume 23, Number 4 and Volume 24, Number 1 (1972).
from Spell / by Morton Marcus (1936–2009)
she knows we look
for our father
the sun
For new neighbors, from American Poet, The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, Volume 40, Spring 2011.
from Harvard, Illinois / by Carl Adamshick
When someone moved to town,
we went mad wondering what caused it.
For the constellations, from poets.org.
from August Evening / by Sandor Csoori
See, a hand sweeps stars
from the August sky
MacNeice! E before i.
For the roses, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Snow / by Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
The room was suddenly rich, and the great bay-window was
Spawning snow and pink roses against it
For the trees, from his book, The Carrier of Ladders (1967). More on Merwin here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/w-s-merwin
from In the Time of the Blossoms / by W.S. Merwin
all over you leaf skeletons
fine as sparrow bones
Another rain poem to stand in for a rain dance. We need rain! From his book, Black Aperture (2013).
from Monet as a Verb / by Matt Rasmussen
The raindrop
that splatters
on a blade
of grass is
no more
From her book, Harm (2011). In looking up her biography, I see that she died on May 10th of this year, at the age of 35. More here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/05/hillary-gravendyk-1979-2014/?woo
from Unsaid / by Hilary Gravendyk (1979-2014)
if you’d speak of it
you’d say I’m like a cloud
For Beatrice, from Octopus Magazine, Issue No. 16, 2014. Full poem here:
http://www.octopusmagazine.com/Issue16/brodak.php
from Ouroboros / by Molly Brodak
Dante is standing there
having thought about Beatrice all this way
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