Saturday, March 28, 2026

1206. A Call - Seamus Heaney

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“Hold on,” she said, “I’ll just run out and get him. The weather here’s so good, he took the chance To do a bit of weeding.” So I sa...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

1205. Thumbprint - Eve Merriam

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  On the pad of my thumb are whorls, whirls, wheels in a unique design: mine alone. What a treasure to own! My own flesh, my own feelings. N...
Monday, February 23, 2026

1204. Symphony in Yellow - Oscar Wild

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  An omnibus across the bridge    Crawls like a yellow butterfly,    And, here and there, a passer-by Shows like a little restless midge. Bi...
Monday, February 09, 2026

1203. Years Later - David Palmer Grenell

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In the dusty triangular attic a box of old school books. Inside, a worn volume of poems, a page turned down at the corner- my father and I, ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

1202. Love in A Flat - Lauren K. Alleyne

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  after Dean Young Dean in a story about Coltrane: how one time in a recording, he hit a wrong note— a real clam. In the second take, he hit...
Saturday, January 03, 2026

1201. For Guy Davenport - Wendell Berry

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Within the circles of our lives we dance the circles of the years, the circles of the seasons within the circles of the years, and the cycle...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

1200. At McClure’s Beach, Point Reys National Seashore, California - Ann Fisher-Wirth

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        I would ask my family Wait for a foggy afternoon, late May, after a rainy winter so that all the wildflowers are blooming on the...
Saturday, December 06, 2025

1199. For A Wedding On Mount Tamalpias - Jane Hirshfield

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July, and the rich apples once again falling. You put them to your lips, as you were meant to, enter a sweetness the earth wants to give. Ev...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

1198. North of San Francisco - Yehuda Amichai

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      Translated from the Hebrew by Chana Blochr Here the soft hills touch the ocean like one eternity touching another and the cows grazi...