For beauty sleep, from Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins.
from The History of Poetry / by Peter Cooley
Centuries yawned and fell back, stuporous,
eons stretched out
20th-Century American Poetry
DPF / Holmes
For Emily, from The Ms of M y Kin, a book of erasures made from The Poems of Emily Dickinson. More by Holmes here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/01/journal-day-three-24/?woo
from 1861.7 (217-223) / by Janet Holmes
somebody bring the light
So
DPF / Zucker
For Earth, from american poets, The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, Spring-Summer 2014. More about the poet here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/rachel-zucker#poet
from Wish You Were Here You Are / by Rachel Zucker b. 1971
he’s 11 & in between 2 kinds of time on the verge
of worlds
DPF / Black
For birds, from the Poetry Foundation website. The rest of the poem may be found here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/181626
from Bird at the Window / by Sophie Cabot Black
Almost done, the world a ruin
Of leaves
DPF / Hall
For rain again, from the Jacaranda Review issue I share with Barry Spacks, Alfred Corn, and Daniel Hall, Fall 1986, Vol. II, No. 1. More here on Daniel Hall:
https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/djhall
from Rainy Season / by Daniel Hall b. 1952
Yes. I could almost see you
hearing it: rising near
but never breaking the surface
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 / Martinez
For Sunday, from heredities, the 2010 Walt Whitman winner.
from The Quietest Heaven / by J. Michael Martinez
a blanched nightgown
whispering against tile
DPF / Kenney
No Kenney yet? Here go! This one’s from Poetry again, December 2012. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/244936
from March / by Richard Kenney b. 1948
Blues! Blooms! The yodel
of the chimney in night wind.
DPF / Karr
For New York, from Poetry magazine, December 2012.
from A Perfect Mess / by Mary Karr b. 1955
The city feeds on beauty, starves
for it, breeds it.
DPF / Kenyon
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
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