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
New York School of Poetry
DPF / O’Hara
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
Daily Poetry Fragments {Semi-Daily} 