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 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/Heaney
For more than 1,000 years ago; not as long ago as it seems. #amazonlink to Irish poet Seamus Heaney's Selected Poems 1988-2013: https://amzn.to/3Oyb3xk from Beowulf / translated from the Old English by Seamus Heaney No counsellor could ever expect fair reparation from those rabid hands. All were endangered; young and old... {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 / Ruefle
Dear Poetry Followers, this one’s for the clock, which gets a starring role this upcoming weekend, from The Most of It.
from My Pet, My Clock / by Mary Ruefle
A clock, on the other hand and against all appearances, is a very poor way to tell time, for all it does is sit there or hang on the wall, and very seldom does it do anything of itself to remind you of time.
DPF / Strand
​PIA: from June 2016.
For wishes, and for a beloved poet much missed, 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 / Koeneke
For a Monday at home, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Labor Day / by Rodney Koeneke
While time for them is a melody
played at long intervals across condominiums
we who are the power
know our systems so much better
now come to this hour outside it
now give it new form on guitar
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.
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