For rivers, from The Best American Poetry, 2014, guest edited by Terrance Hayes. Series editor: David Lehman.
from The Field Museum / by Roger Reeves (originally published in The Cincinnati Review)
Quetzal, starthroat, nightjar, grebe, and artic loon:
This ash for my daughter’s tongue, I give without
Sackcloth or sugar
For light, from The Academy of American Poets, poets.org. Ms. Limon has already been posted once, now twice, and I’m still trying not to duplicate any names yet; so, here’s a new poet for today’s (other) post.
from Sunset Park / by Patrick Phillips
Something like sadness,
like joy, like a sudden
love for my life
For women who aren’t like this, the so many I’ve known, from Poetryfoundation.org. I heard this on the treadmill this morning while listening to a Poetry podcast. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/245154
from Their Pleas / by Kelly Cherry, b. Louisiana
For Berkeley and owls, from A Book of Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
from Adult / by Linda Gregg, b. 1942
I could be the ghost of my own life returning
to the places I lived best.
For missing words and balloons, from APR, March/April 2015.
from Letters to C / by Idra Novey
This blue work.
This gluing of impossibilities.
For Atlantis or not, from Fairy Tale Review, The Mauve Issue.
from Antelopes of Thera / by Elizabeth Gross
the goat fell through centuries
and centuries of volcanic ash.
For ghosts and lures, from The Fairy Tale Review, The Mauve Issue.
from What Haunts / by Claire Cronin
Once a woman was disfigured by a story
told only through a series of red masks
For wedding dresses and storms. This one’s from Fairy Tale Review, The Mauve Issue.
from Selkie / by Kirsten Holt
She drinks
twelve glasses of water a day, and now all her syllables sound like canoes.
For Dickinson and Jane Eyre, from The Best American Poetry, 2014.
from Some Rain / by Joy Katz
Lewis Carroll wrote Alice onto the riverbank
while he floated downstream. The first drops were falling
For our Daisy Dog, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.
from If Feeling Isn’t In It / by John Brehm, b. 1955
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