DPF / Howard

For museums, from Poem A Day, Volume 2, edited by Laurie Sheck.

from Disclaimers / by Richard Howard, b. 1929

Ensconced in the Upper Rotunda alongside a fossil musk-ox, the giant Tyrannosaurus

DPF / Bang

Another American poet, another woman writing in the 1980’s. I have been to Spain, but my only earthquakes were in Los Angeles and one felt as far south as North County San Diego. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/548

from The Earthquake She Slept Through / by Mary Jo Bang

She slept through the earthquake in Spain.
The day after was full of dead things.

DPF / Howe

from Anna Akhmatova / by Fanny Howe

you’d know me as your own.
If only I could call you

mother!