For Day 16, from The Complete Poems 1926-1979.
from The Man-Moth / by Elizabeth Bishop
Each night he must
be carried through artificial tunnels and dream recurrent dreams.
Just as the ties recur beneath his train, these underlie
his rushing brain.
For Day 15, feeling Miltonic. From Paradise Lost.
from Paradise Lost: Book 1 / by John Milton
For Day 13 and one of our beloved alma maters, even in today’s tribulations and pain, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The School Where I Studied / by Yehuda Amichai, translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld
For Day 10 of National Poetry Month, from a local, valley poet, and from american poets: The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, Spring-Summer 2016, and from The Darkening Trapeze.
from Ghazal / by Larry Levis
I remember how
My old psychiatrist would pinch his nose between
A thumb and forefinger, look up at me & sigh.
For Day 9 of National Poetry Month, from my shared-name poet and his book, Shadowinnower.
from Witchnomad / by Aguedo Pizarro, translated by Barbara Stoler Miller
brightflight of the egretdance,
speed of your dreamcalling,
dunesalt in the sandvoid
For Day 8 of National Poetry Month, from poetryfoundation.org.
from Let Me Tell You What A Poem Brings / by Juan Felipe Herrera
For Day 7 of National Poetry Month, from poetryfoundation.org.
from A Poem for Painters / by John Wieners (1934-2002)
For Day 6 of National Poetry Month, from poetryfoundation.org.
from The Missing Poem / by Mark Halliday
With lightness!
With weight and lightness and, on the hypothetical radio,
that certain song you almost forgot to love.
For Jean Justice, Dr. Justice’s wife, who died March 30, 2016. Dr. Justice was the Chair on my Masters Thesis Committee at UF. From Collected Poems.
from Poem [“This poem is not addressed to you”] / by Donald Justice
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