For the new month and the hopeful-small showers it brought already, from poetryfoundation.org.
from October / by Bill Berkson, b. 1939
Three strangers appeared at the door, demanding ribbons.
The October wind . . . nests
New York
DPF / O’Rourke
For Cordelia, from The Academy of American Poets, Poem-A-Day today. The rest of the poem may be found here today:
http://www.poets.org/
from Ever / by Meghan O’Rourke, b. 1976
Even now I can’t grasp “nothing” or “never.”
They’re unholdable, unglobable, no map to nothing.
Never? Never ever again to see you?
An error, I aver. You’re never nothing
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 / Halleck
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.
DPF / Cullen
For our January fog (which I love) whose job it is to keep the green at bay while inadvertently encouraging it, from The Oxford Book of American Poetry, edited by David Lehman.
from To John Keats, Poet at Spring Time / by Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
Somehow I feel your sensitive will
Is pulsing up some tremulous
Sap road of a maple tree, whose leaves
Grow music as they grow
DPF / Conkling
For the winter garden I’m having trouble watering with the drought’s alternate-watering-day/time schedule, from:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/1783#poem
from Symphony of a Mexican Garden / by Grace Hazard Conkling (1878–1958)
An unimagined music here exhales
In upcurled petal, dreamy bud half-furled,
And variations of thin vivid leaf
DPF / Ceravolo
For birds, from The Best American Poetry, 2014, Guest Editor, Terrance Hayes, Senior Editor, David Lehman.
from Hidden Bird / by Joseph Ceravolo (1934-1988)
you know, when the night floats away
like vapor on a lake
DPF / Xu
For seasons, from Poetry, December 2014. The poem will be up on poetryfoundation.org when the December issue posts.
from The Forecast / by Wendy Xu b. 1987
little shimmer, little wilt startled
from out the arranging field
DPF / di Prima
For the 60’s, from American Poets, Fall-Winter 2014.
from City Lights 1961 / by Diane di Prima b. 1934
How many late nights did we haunt the Store
buying scads of new poems from all corners of the earth
DPF / Schulman
For labels and libretti, from The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997, edited by Harold Bloom.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/grace-schulman
from The Present Perfect / by Grace Schulman b. 1935
No heir to your kindness,
your skill with a kite
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