For memory and the upcoming mothers’ day, from poetryfoundation.org. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180084
from A Dandelion for My Mother / by Jean Nordhaus b. 1939
For this random-play week, here’s one from Poem A Day ed. by Laurie Sheck, Vol. 2. A music major at Harvard, Frank O’Hara wrote this elegy for Billie Holiday.
from The Day Lady Died / by Frank O’Hara (1926-1966)
It is 12:20 in New York a Friday
three days after Bastille day, yes
it is 1959
This week, gardens. More on Linda Pastan, here and here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/happo-en-garden-Tokyo
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/linda-pastan
from In the Happo-En Garden, Tokyo / by Linda Pastan b. 1932
Perhaps Eden is buried
here in Japan
More clouds-sky. From Fairy Tale Review: The Emerald Issue, March 2014.
from Dorothy / by Lindsay Lusby
Be the green sky.
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