For gold of the kind that grows on trees and stems, from poetryfoundation.org. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177244
from Feuerzauber / by Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977)
For “a retail dry-good shop in Chatham-street,” from The Oxford Book of American Poetry, edited by David Lehman (2006).
from Fanny / by Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867)
There is an airy web of magic in it,
As in Othello’s pocket handkerchief.
For stars and lilies, from Poetry, December, 2014.
from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous / by Ocean Vuong
That your name
is only the sound of clocks
being set back another hour
& morning
A pretty one for sisters, from the 2009 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poetry, How to Live on Bread and Music.
from The Three Sisters / by Jennifer K. Sweeney b. 1973
How many times have I peered
into the sloop and slag of childhood
as if shaking up a snow globe
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