Thursday, November 30, 2006

272. Epilogue - Robert Lowell

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. Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled? I hear the nois...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

271. Musée Des Beaux Arts - W. H. Auden

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 About suffering they were never wrong,  The Old Masters: how well they understood  Its human position; how it takes place  While someone el...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

270. Giacometti - Richard Wilber

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. Rock insults us, hard and so boldly browed Its scorn needs not to focus, and with fists Which still unstirring strike: Collected it resist...
Monday, November 27, 2006

269. London Pavement Artist - James Schevill

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. His place is before, not in, the National Gallery, On the sidewalk, down on hands and knees, Grey hair a massive flag of identity, Hands l...
Sunday, November 26, 2006

268. The Western Approaches - Howard Nemerov

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. As long as we look forward, all seems free, Uncertain, subject to the Laws of Chance, Though strange that chance should lie subject to law...
Saturday, November 25, 2006

267. In November - Lisel Mueller

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. Outside the house the wind is howling and the trees are creaking horribly. This is an old story with its old beginning, as I lay me down t...
Friday, November 24, 2006

266. West - Louis Simpson

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. On US 101 I felt the traffic running like a beast, Roaring in space. Tamalpais The red princess slopes In honeyed burial from hair to feet...
Thursday, November 23, 2006

265. Mississippi - Louis Simpson

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. When we went down the river on a raft So smooth it was and easy it would seem Land moved but never we. Clouds faded aft In castles. Trees ...
Wednesday, November 22, 2006

264. 90 North - Randall Jarrell

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. At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe, I clambered to bed; up the globe's impossible sides I sailed all night—till at l...
Tuesday, November 21, 2006

263. 50 Years Linda Pastan

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. Though we know how it will end: in grief and silence, we go about our ordinary days as if the acts of boiling an egg or smoothing down a b...
Monday, November 20, 2006

262. Song Of The Oceans Of The World Becoming - Pattiann Rogers

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. The song of the oceans of the world becoming is always among us. It rises over and over from the oceans of the grasslands, rippling like t...
Saturday, November 18, 2006

261. Snow Thinking - Pattiann Rogers

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Pattiann Rogers - Snow Thinking Someone must have thought of snow falling first, before it happened. That's what I believe, someone way ...
Friday, November 17, 2006

260. From: Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Why Jerusalem? - Yehuda Amichai

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9 And there are days here when everything is sails and more sails, even though there's no sea in Jerusalem, not even a river. Everything...
Thursday, November 16, 2006

259. Indolence in Early Winter - Jane Kenyon

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. A letter arrives from friends. . . . Let them all divorce, remarry and divorce again! Forgive me if I doze off in my chair. I should have ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2006

258. Elizabeth Barrett Browning - A Musical Instrument

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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...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

257. Pattiann Rogers - Portrait

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. This is a picture of you Reading this poem. concentrate On the finite movement Of your eyes as they travel At this moment across The page,...
Sunday, November 12, 2006

256. A Thought In Time - Robert Hillyer

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. Elinor Wylie fell in love with Shelly, Amy Lowell fell in love with Keats, Byron posthumously does so well he Can hardly count his valen...
Friday, November 10, 2006

255. Pantoum of the Great Depression - Donald Justice

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. Our lives avoided tragedy Simply by going on and on, Without end and with little apparent meaning. Oh, there were storms and small catastr...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

254. In Order To Perceive - Pattiann Rogers

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. At first you see nothing. The experience is similar To opening your eyes wide as white marbles Inside the deepest cave, beneath tons of li...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

253. Six Poets In Search Of A Lawyer - Donald Hall

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. Finesse be first, whose elegance deplores All things save beauty, and the swinging doors; Whose cleverness in writing verse is just Exceed...