Saturday, September 30, 2006

221. The Other Side Of The Mountain - David Wagoner

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. To walk downhill you must lean partially backwards, Heels digging in, While your body gets more help than it can use In following directio...
Friday, September 29, 2006

220. Vanishing Point - Lawrence Raab

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. You're walking down a road which someone has drawn to illustrate the idea of perspective, and you are there to provide a sense of scal...
Thursday, September 28, 2006

219. Staying Alive - David Wagoner

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. Staying alive in the woods is a matter of calming down At first and deciding whether to wait for rescue, Trusting to others, Or simply...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

218. Lightenings - Seamus Heaney

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. Once, as a child, out in a field of sheep, Thomas Hardy pretended to be dead And lay down flat among their dainty shins. In that snif...
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

217. Hunting What Is - William Stafford

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. There are days when everything waits—you run down the street, and it’s cool, and now has a light inside it, and you are entering that ligh...
Monday, September 25, 2006

216. The Invention of Nostalgia - Lawrence Raab

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. Before 1688 nostalgia didn’t exist. People felt sad and thought about home, but in 1688 Johannes Hofer, a Swiss doctor, made up the word. ...
Saturday, September 23, 2006

215. Writing In The Afterlife - Billy Collins

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. I imagined the atmosphere would be clear, shot with pristine light, not this sulphurous haze, the air ionized as before a thunderstorm. Ma...
Friday, September 22, 2006

214. Love After Love - Derek Walcott

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. Derek Walcott - Love After Love The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirr...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

213. Endless - Muriel Rukeyser

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. Under the tall black sky you look out of your body lit my a white flare of the time between us your body with its touch its weight smellin...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

212. Digging - Seamus Heaney

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Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly...
Monday, September 18, 2006

211. Attachment - Vasant Lad

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An Excerpt from Strands of Eternity by Vasant Lad Here is a thoughtful collection of poems on the Ayurvedic tradition by Vasant Lad, who tea...
Sunday, September 17, 2006

210. Before The Sky Darkens - Stephen Dunn

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. Sunsets, incipient storms, the tableaus of melancholy––maybe these are the Saturday night-events to take your best girl to. At least then ...
Saturday, September 16, 2006

209. Saint George's Dragon - Lawrence Raab

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. As such things go, my reign of terror felt impressive. I ate a lot of the town, was widely feared. A few bloody rampages taught them to br...
Wednesday, September 13, 2006

208. At the Restaurant - Stephen Dunn

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"At the Restaurant" by Stephen Dunn Six people are too many people and a public place the wrong place for what you're thinking...
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

207. William Stafford - The Little Ways That Encourage Good Fortune

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. Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why. If you do not have things right in your life you will be overwhelmed: you may ...
Monday, September 11, 2006

206. MILES DAVIS ON ART - Lawrence Raab

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. "The only way to make art," Miles Davis said, "is to forget what is unimportant." That sounds right, although the oppo...
Saturday, September 09, 2006

205. THE RESORT - Stuart Dischell

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. Through the table, an umbrella. Upon the umbrella, a name, Some beverage with a bright color And bitter taste. The couple Sits impossibly ...
Friday, September 08, 2006

204. THEIR DIVORCE - Stephen Dunn

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. Not them. Not even with the best binoculars on the bluest day could I have seen it coming. Not with scrutiny's microscope, or with the...
Tuesday, September 05, 2006

203. GREAT ART - Lawrence Raab

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Lawrence Raab - Great Art There's so much I don't want to look at, big religious scenes especially, big historical battles, almost a...
Monday, September 04, 2006

202. Museum Piece - Richard Wilbur

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. The good grey guardians of art Patrol the halls on spongy shoes, Impartially protective, though Perhaps suspicious of Toulouse. Here dozes...