For division and birds, from The Penguin Book of Women Poets, edited by Carol Cosman, Joan Keefe, and Kathleen Weaver.
from A Grey Frock / by Zinaida Hippius (Gippius), Russia (1869-1945)
Girl in a grey frock . . .
Your braids seem cotton-spun
DPF / Ching-chao
For spring branches, from The Penguin Book of Women Poets.
from Magnolia Blossom / by Li Ching-chao, China, 1084-1151
Droplets
fleck it evenly
still clouded red
DPF / Abutsu
For pines and hills, from The Penguin Book of Women Poets, edited by Carol Cosman, Joan Keefe, and Kathleen Weaver.
from The Diary of the Waning Moon / by The Nun Abutsu, Japan, d. c. 1283
In the drizzling sky of the Godless Moon, snow too
is falling.
DPF / Stanford
For pennyroyals, from american poets, The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, Volume 48, Spring-Summer 2015.
from The Visitors of Night / by Frank Stanford
He’s dressed in white
Holding a gourd of water
Because I have forgotten Tangle Eye
And Dylan Thomas
DPF / Shikishi
For daughters of Emperors, from The Penguin Book of Women Poets.
from Winter / by Princess Shikishi (d. 1201, Japan)
Leaves one by one
are cleared from the
night sky.
DPF / Kassia
For “the only woman poet of distinction in Byzantine history,” from The Penguin Book of Women Poets, edited by Carol Cosman, Joan Keefe and Kathleen Weaver.
from Selected Epigrams / by Kassia (9th Century, Byzantine Greece)
Emerod. Wooden nickel. Mad
Dog. Weathervane.
DPF / Vidya
For lotus groves and memory, from The Penguin Book of Women Poets edited by Carol Coman, Joan Keefe and Kathleen Weaver.
from The Sun / by Vidya (AD 700-1050, India)
I praise the disk of the rising sun
red as a parrot’s beak
DPF / Byron
For sails and ice, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Stanzas for Music / by George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)
‘Tis but as ivy-leaves around the ruin’d turret wreath,
All green and wildly fresh without
DPF / Blok
For years, from Selected Translations, by WS Merwin.
from To Zinaida Gippius / by Alexander Blok, Russia 1880-1921
Russia
gave birth to us in her years of anguish
and we can forget nothing.
DPF / Macatti
For spring, from India and from The Penguin Book of Women Poets, edited by Carol Cosman, Joan Keefe, and Kathleen Weaver.
from What She Said / by Okkur Macatti (1st-3rd Centuries AD)
In jasmine country, it is evening
for the hovering bees,
but look, he hasn’t come back.
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