Wednesday, November 30, 2005

33. The Makers Of Rain - David Wagoner

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. We sit at the top of the Pyramid of the Magician Our last day in Uxmal, afraid Of the sheer steps and the ranks of the rain gods, The ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2005

32. COME NOT NEAR MY SONGS - Mary Austin

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Soshone Song, From 'The American Rhythm' Come not near my songs You who are not my lover Lest from out that ambush Leaps my heart ap...
Monday, November 28, 2005

31. THE WITCH'S STORY - Lawrence Raab

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. Everything you have heard about me is true, or true enough. You shouldn’t think I’d change my story now. A stubborn, willful little girl c...
Sunday, November 27, 2005

30. GOOD TASTE - Christopher Logue

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. Traveling, a man met a tiger, so.. He ran. And the tiger ran after him Thinking: How fast I run.. But The road thought: How long I am.. Th...
Saturday, November 26, 2005

29. One Train May Hide Another - Kenneth Koch

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(sign at a railroad crossing in Kenya) In a poem, one line may hide another line, As at a crossing, one train may hide another train. That i...
Friday, November 25, 2005

28. Snow - Philip Levine

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. Today the snow is drifting on Belle Isle, and the ducks are searching for some opening to the filthy waters of the their river. On Gr...
Thursday, November 24, 2005

27. FAITH - Czeslaw Milosz

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translated by Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Renata Gorcznski The word Faith means when someone sees A dew-drop or a floating leaf, and knows T...
Wednesday, November 23, 2005

26. THE HISTORY TEACHER - Billy Collins

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. Trying to protect his students' innocence he told them the Ice Age, was really just the Chilly Age, a period of a million years when e...
Tuesday, November 22, 2005

25. JUNE 1968 - Jorge Luis Borges

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. On a golden evening, or in a quietness whose symbol might be a golden evening, a man sets up his books on the waiting shelves, feeling the...
Monday, November 21, 2005

24. A Musical Instrument - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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First printed in the Cornhill Magazine, July, 1860 What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin a...
Saturday, November 19, 2005

23. For Sheridon - Robert Lowell

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We only live between before we are and what we were. In the lost negative you exist, a smile, a cypher on old-fashioned face in an old-fash...
Friday, November 18, 2005

22. FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE FROG PRINCE - Susan Mitchell

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In March I dreamed of mud, sheets of mud over the ballroom chairs and table, rainbow slicks of mud under the throne. In April I saw mud of c...
Thursday, November 17, 2005

21. MOVING - Ted Walker

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Do not attempt to sleep —your strangeness Arouses the new house. Amazed floors, Unaccustomed yet to what is yours, Shift to the burden of wh...

20. THE SLEEPWALKER - Greg Kuzma

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He is at the very tip of the edge of the top step and now he takes the first step down through the tall ferns of the burgundy carpets, hangi...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

19. IDENTITY - Paul Petrie

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They are always saying, the others, “Be what you are!” There are wolves in a dark wood running on the track of deer. The crusted snow cru...
Tuesday, November 15, 2005

18. WAVES - A Laragia Traditional Song

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Waves coming up: high waves coming up against the rocks, Breaking, shi ! shi ! When the moon is high with its light upon the ...
Monday, November 14, 2005

17. THE BIRTH OF LOVE - Robert Penn Warren

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Season late, day late, sun just down, and the sky Cold gunmetal but with a wash of live rose, and she, From water the color of sky except wh...
Sunday, November 13, 2005

16. FAITH - Czeslaw Milosz

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translated by Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Renata Gorcznski The word Faith means when someone sees A dew-drop or a floating leaf, and knows T...
Saturday, November 12, 2005

15. THE WOMAN ON THE MALL - Robert Dana

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I That morning is only as you remember it imperfectly And a woman walks the green mall lightly in her own light summer dress She is neither ...
Friday, November 11, 2005

14. THE MAN WATCHING - Rainer Maria Rilke

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translated by Robert Bly I can tell by the way the trees beat, after so many dull days, on my worried windowpanes that a storm is coming, an...