For wishes, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Minister of Culture Gets His Wish / by Mark Strand
The Minister of Culture goes home after a grueling day at the office. He lies on his bed and tries to think of nothing, but nothing hap-pens or, more precisely, does not happen.
For seashells and waves, from Heavenly Questions.
from Fusiturricula Lullaby / by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
A visit to the shores of lullabies,
So far from here, so very far away,
A floor of sand, it doesn’t matter where, And overhead a water-ceilings sways
For grace, from the FSG book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry, edited by Ilan Stavans.
from The Disappearance of Luisa Porto / by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, translated by Thomas Colchie
No more searching. Silence the radios.
The calm of petals opening
in a blue garden
where hearts are unburdened
For pillars and dances, from Early Poems, 1935-1955.
from In Uxmal / by Octavio Paz
The time is transparent:
even if the bird is invisible,
let us see the color of his song.
For storks and books, from Ordinary Words.
from Reading / by Ruth Stone
The girl wraps her hands in her apron.
Small yellow flowers
have clumped among the tussocks
of coarse grass.
For the day and for those missing it, from poetryfoundation.org.
from flag / by Jacqueline Woodson
and once offstage, we run free, sing
‘America the Beautiful’ and ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’
far away from our families—knowing every word
For full circles and the sea, from Selected Poems.
from Flowers by the Sea / by William Carlos Williams
When over the flowery, sharp pasture’s
edge, unseen, the salt ocean
lifts its form–chicory and daisies
tied, released, seem hardly flowers alone
but color and the movement
For graduation season, and for our niece, who graduated from nursing school yesterday, from poetryfoundation.org. This is a repeated poem, but it bears re-visiting.
from The School Where I Studied / by Yehuda Amichai, translated by Chana Bloch
The windows of a classroom always open
to the future
For figments and vanishing acts, from Jackstraws.
from The Return of the Invisible Man / by Charles Simic, b. 1938
The invisible man, it turns out, had a daughter,
Equally ethereal.
He wants to know, have I bumped into her lately?
You bet, I says to him.
For anyone who needs reassurance that the future probably won’t be like this, from Rattle, Summer 2016.
from Dear Citizen / by Ron Koertge
The letter you received last Tuesday, the one with
the official seal, was not meant for you. We hope
you have not read it.
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