Tuesday, October 31, 2006

247. Memory of a Porch - Donald Justice

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. What I remember Is how the wind chime Commenced to stir As she spoke of her childhood, As though the simple Death of a pet cat, Buried wit...
Monday, October 30, 2006

246. Theme and Variation - Peter De Vries

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. Coleridge caused his wife unrest, Liking other company best; Dickens, never quite enthralled, Sent his packing when she palled; Gauguin br...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

245. Happiness - Jane Kenyon

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. There's just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squand...
Friday, October 27, 2006

244. Anonymous Drawing - Donald Justice

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. A delicate young Negro stands With the reins of a horse clutched loosely in his hands; So delicate, indeed that we wonder if he can hold t...
Thursday, October 26, 2006

243. Poem White Page White Page Poem - Muriel Rukeyser

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. Poem white page white page poem something is streaming out of a body in waves something is beginning from the fingertips they are st...
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

242. The Inner Part - Louis Simpson

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(2004) When they had won the war And for the first time in history Americans were the most important people–– When the leading citizens no l...
Tuesday, October 24, 2006

241. I Am - John Clare

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John Clare - I Am (1793-1864) I am––yet what I am, none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consum...
Monday, October 23, 2006

240. But That Is Another Story - Donald Justice

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But That Is Another Story (1) . I do not think the ending can be right. How can they marry and live happily Forever, these who were so pass...
Saturday, October 21, 2006

239. Old Paintings On Italian Walls - Kathleen Raine

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. Who could have thought that men and women could feel, With consciousness so delicate, such tender secret joy? With finger-tips of touch as...
Friday, October 20, 2006

238. Notes For The Chart In 306 - Ogden Nash

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Question: where does death being call Dodger Thomas come from? The bubbles soar and die in the sterile bottle Hanging upside down on the bed...
Thursday, October 19, 2006

237. For Instance - Denise Levertov

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. Often, it's nowhere special: maybe a train rattling not fast or slow from Melbourne to Sydney, and the light's fading, we've ...
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

236. Who - Jane Kenyon

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. These lines are written by an animal, an angel, a stranger sitting in my chair; by someone who already knows how to live without trouble a...
Monday, October 16, 2006

235. Bearded Oaks - Robert Penn Warren

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. The oaks, how subtle and marine, Bearded, and all the layered light Above them swims; and thus the scene, Recessed, awaits the positive n...
Sunday, October 15, 2006

234. A Woman Alone - Denise Levertov

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. When she cannot be sure which of two lovers it was with whom she felt this or that moment of pleasure, of something fiery streaking from h...
Saturday, October 14, 2006

233. The Door - Jane Hirshfield

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. A note waterfalls steadily through us, just below hearing. Or this early light streaming through dusty glass: what enters, enters like tha...
Friday, October 13, 2006

232. The Revised Versions - Lawrence Raab

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. Even Samuel Johnson found that ending unbearable, and for over a hundred years Lear was allowed to live, along with Cordelia, who marries ...
Thursday, October 12, 2006

231. Ellipsis, Third or Fourth Dot, Depending -Stuart Dischell

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. All my life I wanted to join the carnival. I would be happy there upon the midway, Tearing the heads off chickens. I know This sounds grot...
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

230. The Moment - Theodore Roethke

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. We passed the ice of pain, And came to a dark ravine, And there we sang with the sea; The wide, the bleak abyss Shifted with our slow kiss...
Tuesday, October 10, 2006

229. Waking At 3 a. m. - William Stafford

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. Even in the cave of the night when you wake and are free and lonely, neglected by others, discarded, loved only by what doesn't matter...
Monday, October 09, 2006

228. The Californians - Theodore Spencer

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. Beautiful and blond they come, the Californians, Holding their blond beautiful children by the hand; They come with healthy sunlight in ta...