For quilts and gnawings, from The Best American Poetry 2013, Guest Edited by Denise Duhamel.
from Wintering / by Kevin Young
Mourning, I’ve learned, is just
a moment, many,
grief the long betrothal
beyond.
21st Century American Poetry
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 / Pineda
For river paths, from poets.org’s Poem-A-Day today.
from Daughter / by Jon Pineda
all the way to the broken edge
that overlooks the bend,
& hold hands until
we can no longer tell
where the river ends
DPF / Jones
For carrying infants through the house, from Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins.
from White Towels / by Richard Jones
I have been studying the difference
between solitude and loneliness,
telling the story of my life
DPF / Patterson
For gratitude, from Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins. And, here is one link to the rest of the poem:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/autobiographia/
from Autobiographia / by G.E. Patterson
I had everything and luck: Rings of smoke
blown for me; sunlight safe inside the leaves
of cottonwoods; pure, simple harmonies
of church music
DPF / Connolly
For the end of summer, from Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins.
from The Summer I Was Sixteen / by Geraldine Connolly
Cherry. Elm. Sycamore. We spread our chenille
blankets across grass, pressed radios to our ears
DPF / Jarman
For first letters, from Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins.
from Unholy Sonnets / by Mark Jarman
I can say almost anything about you,
O Big Idea, and with each epithet,
Create new reasons to believe or doubt you
DPF / Collins
For a consideration of lines, from Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins.
from Lines / by Martha Collins
But a line of thought is rarely
straight, an open line’s no party
line, however fine your point.
DPF / Cornish
For a brighter view of loss, from Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins.
from Numbers / by Mary Cornish
Even subtraction is never loss,
just addition somewhere else:
five sparrows take away two,
the two in someone else’s
garden now.
DPF / Dunn
For theater, from Poetry 180, edited by Billy Collins.
from On the Death of a Colleague / by Stephen Dunn
And yet she was a great teacher,
he loved her,
but thought someone should say
what everyone knew
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