For café con leche, from the Academy of American Poets. The rest of the poem is here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/spain
from Spain, for Mark Strand / by Major Jackson
Yet Guernica is down the street, and some windshields
wear a sinister face, sometimes two. Think Goya.
Any day is a good day for myth making. This one’s from Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 3rd Edition, ed. by XJ Kennedy (1983). More here:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/barry-spacks
from Teaching the Penguins to Fly / by Barry Spacks (1931-2014)
it’s nothing like easy to start them moving;
she’ll leap and flap her arms to teach
the big idea
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