For groves and colonnades, from Selected Translations, by W.S. Merwin.
from Blind Painter / by Robert Melançon (French, b. 1947)
But you should not linger
in this metaphorical palace
old as language. Here are trees
all waiting to be named.
20th-Century Poetry
DPF / Cuadra
For archipelagos, from Selected Translations, by WS Merwin.
from The Girls / by Pablo Antonio Cuadra (Spanish, 1912-2002)
Like flowers floating
like garlands
of happy colors.
DPF / Cendrars
For fish and beaches, from A Book of Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Aleutian Islands / by Blaise Cendrars, translated by Monique Chefdor (1887-1961)
mountain ash pine trees Arctic willows
Bed of heather and Alpine plants
DPF / Ritsos
For the passing moment, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Miniature / by Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990), translated by Edmund Keeley
like yellow wheels for a very small carriage
made for a child’s fairy tale
DPF / Salinas
For gold and islands, from Selected Translations, by W.S. Merwin.
from Not in marble palaces / by Pedro Salinas (Spanish, 1892-1951)
Roofs sheltered us.
Less than roofs, clouds.
Less than clouds: skies.
Still less: air, nothing.
DPF / Anonymous
For dreams, from Selected Translations, by W.S. Merwin.
from The Dream / by Anonymous (Eskimo/1969)
I dreamed you
walking on the shore
over the little stones
DPF / Parra
All I can really think of is the Shreve High football stadium, but in the interest of continuing to try not to repeat any poets, here’s a magical poem that’s unrelated to Super Bowl Sunday. However, there is a tunnel in this poem, and tunnels will obviously produce athletes at just the right moment today; so, this is why I chose it. This one’s from The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry, edited by Ilan Stavans.
from The Tunnel / by Nicanor Parra, b. 1914 / Chile, translated by Mark Strand
I spent the nights at my work table
Absorbed in practicing automatic writing.
DPF / Hinton
For Sears and Rembrandts, from The Best American Poetry, 2014.
from No Doubt About It (I Gotta Get Another Hat) / by Le Hinton, b.1952
how does a poet
fall back into the sky
DPF / Griggs
For mailmen and armchairs, from The Best American Poetry 2014, Guest Editor, Terrance Hayes, Series Editor, David Lehman. A different one from Ms. Griggs, here:
http://www.pw.org/content/sky_girl_rosemary_griggs
from Script Poem / by Rosemary Griggs
CROW (V.O.)
Caw, caw, caw, caw.
DPF / Wilson
For candles at dusk, from A Book of Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Dusk in My Backyard / by Keith Wilson, b. 1927
pecans drop, rattle down —
the tin roof of our house
rivers to platinum in the early moon
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