For Irish writers, daughters, and the earth, from Poetryfoundation.org. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180325
from The Lost Land / by Eavan Boland, b. Dublin, 1944
For wishes and space, from Poetry, December, 2014.
from Waste / by Afaa Michael Weaver
feeling as if all the things that were falling
would fall and make their thunder, leave
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 blackberries and blue, from Fairy Tale Review, The Mauve Issue.
from In Every Tale of Hunger / by Emma Bolden
In winter the husband walks ever northward.
The wife stays dark and light in their house.
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 wings and snow, from Bright Wings, edited by Billy Collins.
from December Notes / by Nancy McCleery
The backyard is one white sheet
Where we read in the bird tracks
The songs we hear.
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
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