For the give and take between reality and dreams. In this poem, she is a mime, and it is an imagined glass. #amazonlink to The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan (p.54) https://amzn.to/3dmuDzn. from "How Successful Can She Afford to Be?" / by Kay Ryan Would she be glad if it left a ring, if she could add to the manifest, passing a thing out of the dream? {important information for you for the #amazonlink: as an Amazon affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases; all books I link, I own, unless otherwise noted}
21st Century American Poetry
DPF/Mark
For children and snow and Li Shan Chong and Lily Janes everywhere, from a magical poet. #amazon link to Wild Milk https://amzn.to/3ukJKPj from "Spells" / by Sabrina Orah Mark This is what I remember most about my sons: they were always thirsty, and they were wildest at dusk, and they were always kind. Their eyes were soft and white like snowy windowsills. {important information for you for the #amazonlink: as an Amazon affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases}
DPF/Harman
For the love of MTM/Mary Tyler Moore/Mary Richards and her writers' perfect chronicling of one female, single and hard-working associate news producer in Minneapolis' 1970-1977. In case you missed it, here's your #amazonlink: (DVD's/of course, I own these) https://amzn.to/3I07XzJ or (single episode or seasons) https://amzn.to/3yqswSQ from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Third Episode" / by Michele Pizarro Harman ...Daughter to the black box, become an invention. Melt out the edges of your own signed and numbered print. with many thanks to: the Antioch Review, Winter 1988, Volume 56, Number 1 https://antiochcollege.edu/antioch-review/about/ {important information for you for the #amazonlink: as an Amazon affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases}
DPF / Strand
PIA: from June 5, 2016.
For wishes, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Minister of Culture Gets His Wish / by Mark Strand
The Minister of Culture goes home after a grueling day at the office. He lies on his bed and tries to think of nothing, but nothing happens or, more precisely, does not happen.
DPF / Padgett
For one kind of lesson (from a repeat poem) on the night before all the lessons begin again for the 2016-2017 school year. Class of ’17+, your first day is tomorrow! From How to be Perfect.
from History Lesson / by Ron Padgett
I think that Geoffrey Chaucer did not move
the way a modern person moves.
He moved only an inch at a time, in what
we call stop action.
DPF / Mark
PIA: from June 29, 2016.
For gratitude for spectacles, from Tsim, Tsum.
from The 10 Stages of Beatrice / by Sabrina Orah Mark
The possibility that she is not alive, in this stage, never enters her mind. This stage is only possible if the spectacle comes to town.
DPF / Messer
For mice and mice oracles, from Dress Made of Mice.
from Interrogation of the Room’s Unseen Presence / by Sarah Messer
Has this miracle had any effect? If your soul is lost, how long will it be lost? As you gazed, who stood beside you?
DPF / Mark
For gratitude for spectacles, from Tsim, Tsum.
from The 10 Stages of Beatrice / by Sabrina Orah Mark
The possibility that she is not alive, in this stage, never enters her mind. This stage is only possible if the spectacle comes to town.
DPF / Johnson
For summer travels, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Summer / by Ronald Johnson
As the morning advanced the sun became bright and warm, cloudless, calm, serene.
DPF / Mark
For sleep and red stoves, from The Babies.
from Osip Zoo / by Sabrina Orah Mark
There are those for whom Osip Zoo does, and then there are the rest of us.
Daily Poetry Fragments {Semi-Daily} 