For James Tate who died last night. Audio and visual of the complete poem, a fragment of his life, below. Will miss your live voice out and about in this world.
Of Whom Am I Afraid / by James Tate (1943–2015)
https://splitwindow.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/of-whom-am-i-afraid-james-tate/
For rain, from Poetry, September 2014.
from Now the Slow Blood / by Robert Fernandez b. 1980
Slow the slow rain down can rain.
Slow the dead is dead.
Slow the light, light.
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
More gardening. And, more here:
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/garden-bees
from A Garden of Bees / by Matthew Rohrer b. 1970
I buy the poem from the garden
of bees for one euro.
Thematically last for the week: American poet, writing in the 1980’s, and a woman. This one’s from her book, Instructions to the Double, 1976.
from Cows, A Vision / by Tess Gallagher
The cows were never born. They came
with the land
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