For the birds, in the best way, from The Best American Poetry, 2014, Guest Edited by Terrance Hayes, Series Editor David Lehman. More on the poet here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/robert-wrigley
from Blessed Are / by Robert Wrigley, b. 1951
You, faithful ravens, staying on and saying
through the songbirdless winter
the biblical syntax of your declarations.
For Monday, which is not at all exactly like detainment, but something about it comes to mind. This one’s from The Best American Poetry, 2014, Guest Edited by Terrance Hayes, Series Editor David Lehman.
from Detainment / by Greg Wrenn, b. 1979
To break me down, at first one of them kept
tapping on my nose and whispering lyrics,
access codes, rapid sequences of Greek letters
and English surnames.
For rivers and their infamous epigraphs, from Poetry, January 2015.
from First Thing / by Tyler Mills
You can dip a line of monofilament into a river.
You can do it twice.
My husband said 2014 was a mixed bag for him. I guess that’s every year, ultimately, which puts me in the mood for denial. Here’s another talisman for a bright and shiny 2015, from Poetry Foundation at: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/243270.
from New Year / by Dilruba Ahmed
Last night something
tunneled through the elms.
Another for 2015, from Poetry Foundation, at: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180394.
from New Year / by Bei Dao (Zhao Zhenkai, b. 1949), translated by David Hinton and Yanbing Chen
a child carrying flowers walks toward the new year
a conductor tattooing darkness
listens to the shortest pause
For the passing year, from The Best American Poetry, 2014.
from In My Last Past Life / by Hailey Leithauser
a forest and love and a river, and grief
was a ghost hidden green in the leaves,
an echo off cliffs that bound back the sea
For devices and tokens, from The Best American Poetry, 2014.
from Story Problem / by Kiki Petrosino
Collect: the Feelings Token.
Collect: the Flag Token.
For stars, from The Star By My Head, Poets from Sweden, edited and translated by Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström.
from Eleven Hundred Eighty One / by Bruno K. Öijer b. 1951
until the stars fall down
hitting your shoes with sparkles
For Miles Davis, from The Best American Poetry, 2014, Guest Editor, Terrance Hayes, and Senior Editor, David Lehman. More on the poet, here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/joel-dias-porter
from Elegy Indigo / by Joel Dias-Porter
How long does it take to hear what silence can say?
I stand at a stoplight, waiting for the colors to change.
For bees, from The Best American Poetry, 2014. No Brock-Broido yet??
from Bird, Singing / by Lucie Brock-Broido
Among the million small gold bees set loose
In April’s onion snow, quietly
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