For magazines and dreams, from The Oxford Book of American Poetry, edited by David Lehman.
from X Minus X / by Kenneth Fearing
Still there will be your desire, and her desire, and his
desire, and their desire,
your laughter, their laughter
For Wednesdays, from Poetry Foundation. The rest of the poem may be found here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/241072
from Wednesday, August 02, 2006 / by Susan M. Schulz b. 1958
–Compare and contrast the acquisition of a language to its loss. Avoid the trap of merely saying that the latter happens in reverse order of the former. You are likely to do better if you see them as similar processes, though one leads to gain, the other loss.
I think I will go with weather this week. Feeling likes it’s going to be a really tempestuous one here, as it is the final week of the elementary year. And, since my brain is feeling foggy in advance of the maelstrom, here’s a favorite fog poem.
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/fog
from Fog / by Carl Sandburg b. 1878
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
This is a sweet poem I found in Poetry 180. I sort of expected it to turn dark, but, it stayed sweet to the end.
from God Says Yes to Me / by Kaylin Haught
I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic
and she said yes
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