For autumn, from poetryfoundation.org.
from For the Chipmunk in My Yard / by Robert Gibb
He’s lucky
To be where he is, wild with all that happens.
Pennsylvania
DPF / Updike
Another for the Final Four, from Poetryfoundation.org. The rest of the poem may be found here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172264
from Ex-Basketball Player / by John Updike (1932–2009)
Once Flick played for the high-school team, the Wizards.
He was good: in fact, the best. In ’46
He bucketed three hundred ninety points,
A county record still. The ball loved Flick.
DPF / Woloch
Another dream. Today, I dream of my daughter, who woke to thirteen, turned teen overnight.
from Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea / by Cecilia Woloch
I was leaving a country of rain for a country of apples. I hadn’t much time.
DPF / Jessica Goodfellow
One more sky. From Thrush Poetry Journal, May 2014. A beautiful poem chosen by Helen Vitoria, editor. Complete poem (and two others by Ms. Goodfellow) here:
http://www.thrushpoetryjournal.com/may-2014-jessica-goodfellow.html
from Hover / by Goodfellow
Hover, canopy, the endless falling snow a shroud
DPF / Doolittle
I did not know she was a classmate of Marianne Moore’s. Wonder if they got along? I picture HD slumped in the back, and Marianne Moore bent over her paper in the front row.
from Moonrise / by H.D.
She is great,
we measure her by the pine trees.
DPF / Benét
Love the little birds and all the art that follows them.
from John James Audubon / by Stephen Vincent Benét
Let the wind blow hot or cold,
Let it rain or snow,
Everywhere the birds went
Audubon would go.
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