For doctors, from Selected Translations, by W.S. Merwin.
from On This Earth / by Blas de Otero (Spanish, 1916-1979)
(Chest
shaped like
Spain.)
Get lots of air, the doctor
told me
20th-Century Poetry
DPF / Ekelof
For the beauty of small things, from The Star by My Head, Poets from Sweden edited and translated by Malena Morling and Jonas Ellerstrom.
from the flowers are sleeping / by Gunnar Ekelof (1907-1968)
and the children play quietly with words on the floor
DPF / Carruth
For finding form, from Villanelles, edited by Annie Finch and Marie – Elizabeth Mali.
from Saturday at the Border / by Hayden Carruth
Ah, far from home and God knows not much fired
By thoughts of when he thought he was inspired,
He writes by writing what he must.
DPF / Tomasa Rivera
For simple things, from Mouth to Mouth: Poems by Twelve Contemporary Mexican Women, edited by Forrest Gander.
from Untitlted / by Silvia Tomasa Rivera (b. El Higo, Veracruz, 3.7.1956), translated by Janet Rodney
It’s something much simpler,
like opening a window and touching that luminous spot
bursting in the cup of your hands.
DPF / Teillier
For Chagall and his bright world, from The FSG Book of Twentieth-century Latin American Poetry, edited by Ilan Stavans.
from The Poet in the Countryside (After a Marc Chagall painting) / by Jorge Teillier (Chile, 1935-1996)
Yes
we could also be lying down
prominently in the painting
with the raincoat covered with grass
DPF / Teillier
For Chagall and his bright world, from The FSG Book of Twentieth-century Latin American Poetry, edited by Ilan Stavans.
from The Poet in the Countryside (After a Marc Chagall painting) / by Jorge Teillier (Chile, 1935-1996)
Yes
we could also be lying down
prominently in the painting
with the raincoat covered with grass
DPF / Dove
For 5th grade, from Poetryfoundation.org.
from Fifth Grade Autobiography / by Rita Dove
I was four in this photograph fishing
with my grandparents at a lake in Michigan.
My brother squats in poison ivy.
His Davy Crockett cap
sits squared on his head
DPF / Tsvetaeva
For stars and curls, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from Where does this tenderness come from? / by Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)
Your lashes are — longer than anyone’s.
DPF / Gioia
For dead letters, from the Poetry app spin.
from The Letter / by Dana Gioia
And we still wait like children who have sent
Two weeks’ allowance far away
To answer an enticing advertisement
From a crumbling, yellow magazine
DPF / Laux
For singing with wild abandon, from Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins.
from Singing Back the World / by Dorianne Laux
The car
an immense boat cutting the air
into blue angelic plumes. Singing
Blue Moon and Paper Moon
and Mack the Knife
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