For time, from Poetry, 2015.
from The Clock in Literature / by Adam Saroyan
The clock in literature
Holds that moon.
DPF / Phillips
For light, from The Academy of American Poets, poets.org. Ms. Limon has already been posted once, now twice, and I’m still trying not to duplicate any names yet; so, here’s a new poet for today’s (other) post.
from Sunset Park / by Patrick Phillips
Something like sadness,
like joy, like a sudden
love for my life
DPF / Limón
A love poem for the end of the world, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Conditional / by Ada Limón, b 1976
Say we never get to see it: bright
future, stuck like a bum star, never
DPF / Cherry
For women who aren’t like this, the so many I’ve known, from Poetryfoundation.org. I heard this on the treadmill this morning while listening to a Poetry podcast. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/245154
from Their Pleas / by Kelly Cherry, b. Louisiana
a woman with a bulletproof heart,
without a memory of life on earth.
DPF / Boland
For Irish writers, daughters, and the earth, from Poetryfoundation.org. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180325
from The Lost Land / by Eavan Boland, b. Dublin, 1944
Where the hills
are the colours of a child’s eyes,
where my children are distances, horizons
DPF / Weaver
For wishes and space, from Poetry, December, 2014.
from Waste / by Afaa Michael Weaver
feeling as if all the things that were falling
would fall and make their thunder, leave
DPF / Gregg
For Berkeley and owls, from A Book of Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Adult / by Linda Gregg, b. 1942
I could be the ghost of my own life returning
to the places I lived best.
DPF / Bolden
For blackberries and blue, from Fairy Tale Review, The Mauve Issue.
from In Every Tale of Hunger / by Emma Bolden
In winter the husband walks ever northward.
The wife stays dark and light in their house.
DPF / Novey
For missing words and balloons, from APR, March/April 2015.
from Letters to C / by Idra Novey
This blue work.
This gluing of impossibilities.
DPF / Gross
For Atlantis or not, from Fairy Tale Review, The Mauve Issue.
from Antelopes of Thera / by Elizabeth Gross
the goat fell through centuries
and centuries of volcanic ash.
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