DPF / O’Rourke

For Cordelia, from The Academy of American Poets, Poem-A-Day today. The rest of the poem may be found here today:
http://www.poets.org/

from Ever / by Meghan O’Rourke, b. 1976

Even now I can’t grasp “nothing” or “never.”
They’re unholdable, unglobable, no map to nothing.
Never? Never ever again to see you?
An error, I aver. You’re never nothing

DPF / Boruch

More weather. Snow, my favorite. But, also, rain is my favorite. And, fog. But, here’s snow. APR May/June 2014

 

from The Sound and Silence of the World Now / by Marianne Boruch

enraptured by the sudden what a score

middle of winter, deep snow in this village I never heard of but

DPF / Ras

More dreams. And, more here:

http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/book-said-dream-and-i-do

from Book Said Dream and I Do / by Barbara Ras b. 1949

The feathers of the birds made the air soft, softer
than the quiet in a cocoon waiting for wings