Saturday, December 31, 2005

50. TWO MASKS UNEARTHED IN BULGARIA - William Meredith

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for Kolyo Sevov When God was learning to draw the human face I think he may have made a few like these that now look up at us through museum...
Thursday, December 29, 2005

49. IN PRAISE OF MY SISTER - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczcak and Clare Cavanagh My sister doesn't write poems. and it's unlikely that she'...
Friday, December 23, 2005

48. To A Stranger Born In Some Distant Country Hundreds Of Years From Now - Billy Collins

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I write poems far a stranger who will be born in some distant country hundreds of years from now. – Mary Oliver Nobody here likes a wet do...
Tuesday, December 20, 2005

47. Ithaka - C. P. Cavafy, 4th Translation

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T ranslated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard As you set out for Ithaka  hope your road is a long one,  full of adventure,...

46. Ithaca - C. P Cavafy, 3rd Translation

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Translated from the Greek by ? When you set out for Ithaka Ask that your way be long, Full of adventure, full of instruction. The Laistrygon...

45. Ithaca - C. P. Cavafy, 2nd Translation

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Translated from the Greek by Edmund Keely When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of...

44. Ithaca - C. P. Cavafy, 1st Translation

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Translated from the Greek by Rae Dalven When you start on your journey to Ithaca, then pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full o...
Friday, December 16, 2005

43. How To Regain Your Soul - William Stafford

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. Come down Canyon Creek trail on a summer afternoon that one place where the valley floor opens out. You will see the white butterflies....
Tuesday, December 13, 2005

42. GARGOES - John Masfield

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. Quinquireme of Noneveh from distant Ophir Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory And apes and peacocks. sandalwood...
Monday, December 12, 2005

41. THROW YOURSELF LIKE SEED - Miguel de Unamuno

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translated by Robert Bly Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit; sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate that brushes your he...
Saturday, December 10, 2005

40. THE ILLITERATE - William Meredith

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. Touching your goodness, I am like a man Who turns a letter over in his hand And you might think this was because the hand Was unfamiliar b...
Thursday, December 08, 2005

39. A Ritual To Read To Each Other - William Stafford

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. If you don’t know the kind of person I am and I don’t know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world ...
Monday, December 05, 2005

38. A True Story

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. The old lady leaves the old farm house. November gray Dry clouds Cold browns Walks to the white mail box. Typical white farmers mail box s...
Sunday, December 04, 2005

37. SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 - W. H. Auden

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. I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger...
Saturday, December 03, 2005

36. BE NOT AFEARD - Caliban

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. Be not afeard, the Isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instrument...
Friday, December 02, 2005

35. RELATIVES - Carl Dennis

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. “Remember your father, the wolf,” The lecturer says. “Chewed by its appetite, it chews its prey. It howls with fear in the woods, Beyond b...
Thursday, December 01, 2005

34. Drinking Cold Water - Peter Everwine

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. Almost twenty years Since you put on your one good dress And lay down in the shale hills of Pennsylvania. What you expected from life was ...
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...