For Tao philosophers, from A Book of Luminous Things.
from Waxwings / by Robert Francis 1901-1987
Above an elegance of snow, beneath
a silk – blue sky a brotherhood of four
birds.
20th-Century Poetry
DPF / Machej
For patience, from A Book of Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Orchards in July / by Zbigniew Machej, b. 1958, translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Robert Hass
the green touched with gray, of leaves,
fallen petals of white
DPF / Guillén
For gulls, from A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Flight / by Jorge Guillén (1893-1984)
All of space is a wave transfixed.
DPF / Schulman
For labels and libretti, from The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997, edited by Harold Bloom.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/grace-schulman
from The Present Perfect / by Grace Schulman b. 1935
No heir to your kindness,
your skill with a kite
DPF / Starbuck
For Sylvia, from Poetry Foundation’s archives.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/19639
from Of Late / by George Starbuck (1931–1996)
He said it with simple materials such as would be found in your kitchen.
DPF / Bogan
For Shakespeare, from Louise Bogan’s Collected Poems: 1923-1953. More on Louise Bogan, here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/louise-bogan
from To An Artist, To Take Heart / by Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall
DPF / Sitwell
For mulberry trees, from my $2.50 first edition of Potable Gold (1929), by Babette Deutsch (1895–1982).
from Elegy on Dead Fashion / by Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
The nymphs are dead like the great summer roses.
DPF / Pushkin
For music, from Narrative Poems by Alexander Pushkin & Mikhail Lermontov, translated by Charles Johnson (1983).
from Mozart and Salieri / by Alexander Pushkin, translated by Charles Johnson
Harmony
became for me an algebra.
DPF / Cooley
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
DPF / Gervitz
For mothers and grandmothers, from Mouth to Mouth, Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women.
from Shajarit / by Gloria Gervitz b. 1943
In the migrations of red carnations, where the songs of the long-billed birds
break and the apples rot, before the disaster
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