For locks and scenes, from The Best American Poetry, 1997, edited by James Tate.
from Downward Mobility / by Lewis Warsh
I’ll probably make the same mistake at least one more time in my life before I learn there’s an alternative.
New York City
DPF / Ford
For those who have no listeners: may they find one to begin. From Poetry, July/August 2015.
from Too Much / by Tyler Ford
all i want you to know is that you deserve to be heard
for 3 minutes
for 10 minutes
for 2 hours
forever.
DPF / Deutsch
For flotsam and fisher gulls, from the Poetry Foundation app.
from It Is There / by Babette Deutsch (1895-1982)
Motionless hulls
Enormous under a dead grey sky.
DPF / Auden
No Auden yet? This one’s for and from Auden and for Ireland, from The Oxford Book of American Verse, edited by David Lehman (2006).
from In Memory of W.B. Yeats (d. January 1939) / by W.H. Auden (1907-1973)
By mourning tongues
The death of the poet was kept from his poems
DPF / Bogan
For Shakespeare, from Louise Bogan’s Collected Poems: 1923-1953. More on Louise Bogan, here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/louise-bogan
from To An Artist, To Take Heart / by Louise Bogan (1897-1970)
Hamlet, Othello, Coriolanus fall
DPF / Smith
From the new APR, July/August 2014.
https://www.aprweb.org/
from Samsara / by Charlie Smith b. 1947
a man of Africa,
traveled ages to sit before the #2 Concerto in A Minor. In my dream,
cabbage roses
DPF / Pastan
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
DPF / Hecht
from The Hill / by Anthony Hecht
And that was all, except for the cold and silence
That promised to last forever, like the hill.
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