Wednesday, March 29, 2006

85. SAYINGS OF THE BLIND - William Stafford

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. Feeling is believing. Mountains don't exist. But their slopes do. Little people have low voices. All things, even the rocks, make a li...
Sunday, March 26, 2006

84. Excerpt from THE INTERLUDE - Karl Shapiro

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. What lives? the proper creatures in their homes? A weed? the white and giddy butterfly? Bacteria? necklaces of chromosomes? What lives? th...
Friday, March 24, 2006

83. CLASS PICTURE, 1984 - Billy Collins

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. I am the third one from the left in the third row. The girl I have been in love with since the 5th grade is just behind me to the right, t...
Wednesday, March 22, 2006

82. POEM ABOUT MORNING - William Meredith

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. Whether it's sunny or not, it's sure To be enormously complex–– Trees or streets outdoors, indoors whoever you share, And yourself...
Tuesday, March 21, 2006

81. When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone - Galway Kinnell

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Galway Kinnell - When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone 1 When one has lived a long time alone one refrains from swatting the fly and lets him...
Sunday, March 19, 2006

80. September The First Day Of School - Howard Nemerov

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I My child and I hold hands on the way to school, And when I leave him at the first-grade door He cries a little but is brave, he does L...
Saturday, March 18, 2006

79. SCRAMBLED EGGS AND WHISKEY - Hayden Carruth

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. Scrambled eggs and whiskey in the false-dawn light. Chicago, a sweet town, bleak, God knows, but sweet. Sometimes. And weren't we fine...
Tuesday, March 14, 2006

78. FREEDOM - William Stafford

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. Freedom is not following a river. Freedom is following a river, though, if you want to. It is deciding now by what happens now. It is ...
Sunday, March 12, 2006

77. NIGHTCLUB - Billy Collins

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You are so beautiful and I am a fool to be in love with you is a theme that keeps coming up in songs and poems. There seems to be no room fo...
Friday, March 10, 2006

76. ROLLS-ROYCE DREAMS - Ginger Andrews

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. Using salal leaves for money, my youngest sister and I paid an older sister to taxi an abandoned car in our backyard. Our sister knew how ...
Wednesday, March 08, 2006

75. GREEN STREET - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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The Green Street Mortuary Marching Band marches right down Green Street and turns into Columbus Avenue where all the cafe sitters at the sid...
Tuesday, March 07, 2006

74. COURAGE - Anne Sexton

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. It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up...
Monday, March 06, 2006

73. WALKING THE DOG - Howard Neverov

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. Two universes mosey down the street Connected by love and a leash and nothing else. Mostly I look at lamplight through the leaves While he...
Sunday, March 05, 2006

72. STEPPING OUT OF POETRY - Gerald Stern

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. What would you give for one of the old yellow streetcars rocking toward you again through the thick snow? What would give for the feeling ...
Saturday, March 04, 2006

71. CHILD DEVELOPMENT - Billy Collins

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As sure as prehistoric fish grew legs and sauntered off the beaches into forests working up some irregular verbs for their first conversatio...
Friday, March 03, 2006

70. POEM IN THANKS - Thomas Lux

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. Lord Whoever, thank you for this air I'm about to in- and exhale, this hutch in the woods, the wood for fire, the light–––both lamp an...
Tuesday, February 28, 2006

69. LEARNING - William Stafford

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A piccolo played then a drum. Feet began to come-a part of the music. Here came a horse, clippety clop, away. My mother said, "Don'...
Sunday, February 26, 2006

68. YOU AND ART - William Stafford

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. Your exact errors make a music that nobody hears. Your straying feet find the great dance, walking alone. And you live on a world where st...
Saturday, February 25, 2006

67. AT LEAST - Raymond Carver

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. I want to get up early one more morning, before sunrise. Before the birds, even. I want to throw cold water on my face and be at my work t...
Friday, February 24, 2006

66. FAMILY REUNION - Judith Viorst

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The first full-fledged family reunion Was held at the seashore With 9 pounds of sturgeon 7 pounds of corned beef 1 nephew who got the highes...