For happy 4th to you! From Poetry Foundation.
from Firework / by Stacie Cassarino
I was a keeper of breath,
of hay. I walked a field, collecting bones.
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.
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