DPF / Eberhart

I met Richard Eberhart in a poetry workshop which he led for a day at UF, in 1987 or 1988. He very kindly passed Emily Dickinson’s handshake to me: from her hand to an intervening hand to his hand to mine. This one’s from The Voice That is Great Within Us, an anthology from 1970, edited by Hayden Carruth.

from Flux / by Richard Eberhart (1904–2005)

The fogs are as unpredictable as the winds.
The next generation comes surely on  

DPF / Salter

And, another American poet, a woman, and a woman writing in the 1980’s. Harvard, Cambridge, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, Japan and a smile as enigmatic as Ms. Sarandon’s. As well, this one’s thematically linked to the previous one.

from Home Movies: A Sort of Ode / by Mary Jo Salter

What happened between him and her
is another story. And just as well
we have no movie of it

DPF / Cummings

from 73 Poems: #19 / by  E. E. Cummings

Q: how numb can an unworld get?
A: number