For sad birds of the king – eaten kind, from Poetry, December, 2014.
from Ortolans / by Rachel Galvin
have you heard about the ortolans? Fig – peckers of yellowhammer
descent.
21st-Century Poetry
DPF / Brehm
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
What will I do? Who will take care of me?
I loved her so much and now she’s gone
DPF / Denrow
For fields, the far ones and the not so far, from The Academy of American Poets. The rest of the poem may be found here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/how-mind-works-still-be-sure
from How the mind works still to be sure / by Jennifer Denrow
You worried that everyone
you knew was becoming the field and you couldn’t help
them because you were the one making them into fields
in the first place.
DPF / Smith
For President’s Day, from Poetry Foundation, and from a Smith, my mother’s maiden name. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/244378
from The President Flies Over / by Patricia Smith b. 1955
Aloft between heaven and them,
I babble the landscape—what staunch, vicious trees,
what cluttered roads, slow cars.
DPF / Arnold
For Valentine’s Day and birds, from poetryfoundation.org.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182920
from Bird-Understander / by Craig Arnold
Of many reasons I love you here is one
the way you write me from the gate at the airport
so I can tell you everything will be alright
DPF / Willis
For rose palaces and thatchwork, from Poetry, February, 2015.
from Steady Digression to a Fixed Point / by Elizabeth Willis
Dear Paolo, I dreamed I would write this, I dreamed a rose was
coming out of my mouth in the middle of the greatest city in the
world.
DPF / Boruch
For prayer and ink, from Poetry, February, 2015.
from a / Marianne Boruch
They wore out the a
in the letterpress case only after
a few thousand hits under the inked rollers
DPF / Cuadra
For archipelagos, from Selected Translations, by WS Merwin.
from The Girls / by Pablo Antonio Cuadra (Spanish, 1912-2002)
Like flowers floating
like garlands
of happy colors.
DPF / Moriarty
For snow and San Francisco, from Poetry Foundation. The whole poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/249750
from A Franc Sonic (or, A Frank Sonic) / by Laura Moriarty
Earlier in “The Park”
Wrote shells and cherubs
The cathedral
DPF / Wing
For words, wings, and Kentucky, and from Poetry Foundation. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/243034
from The Darker Sooner / by Catherine Wing
Then came the darker sooner,
came the later lower.
We were no longer a sweeter-here
happily-ever-after.
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