For fabulous football, from Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins. The rest of the poem may be found here:
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
from Football / by Louis Jenkins b. 1942
I understand that this is a world where anything is possible
21-Century American Poetry
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 / Chappell
For yellowhammers, from Thrush Poetry Journal, an anthology of the first two years, 2014. The complete poem is here:
http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/november-2012-carrie-chappell.html
from Tuesday Night Ponders / by Carrie Chappell
I could tend gardens, Dai-
sy would be here.
DPF / Hurt
From Fairytale Review, The Emerald Issue. From a fellow, (what’s the feminine of fellow, native?) native Ohioan.
from No Place (Dorothy Reconsiders) / by Rochelle Hurt
Out here the din of tin on tin hangs
just below an orphaned smudge of cumulus
DPF / Muske-Dukes
Last for weather for now. Our California State Poet Laureate from 2008-2011! Maybe gardens next week. More here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/octave-above-thunder
from An Octave Above Thunder / by Carol Muske-Dukes b. 1945
Here were the words of the Blind Poet–
crumpled like wash for the line, to be
dried, pressed flat.
DPF / Woloch
Another dream. Today, I dream of my daughter, who woke to thirteen, turned teen overnight.
from Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea / by Cecilia Woloch
I was leaving a country of rain for a country of apples. I hadn’t much time.
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