Wednesday, October 31, 2007

518. Sleeping in the Forest - Mary Oliver

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. I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

517. On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam - Hayden Carruth

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. Well I have and in fact more than one and I'll tell you this too I wrote one against Algeria that nightmare and another against Korea ...
Monday, October 29, 2007

516. The Yellow Steeple - Andrew Hudgins

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. On my way home from work, I jumped the fence and cut across the Baptist cemetery. As I walked over Sarah Pratt, I saw a workman standing o...
Friday, October 26, 2007

515. A Not So Good Night In The San Pedro Of The World - Charles Bukowski

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. it's unlikely that a decent poem is in me tonight and I understand that this is strickly my problem and of no interest to you th...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

514. Dennis Was Very Sick - Yehuda Amichai

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Translated from the Hebrew by Yehuda Amichai and Ted Hughes Dennis was very sick. His face retreated But his eyes advanced from it With grea...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007

513. Obituary - Weldon Kees

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. Boris is dead. The fatalist parrot No longer screams warnings to Avenue A. He died last week on a rainy day. He is sadly missed. His spiri...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007

512. A Poem In Honor Of - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak Once, upon a time, invented zero. In an uncertain country. Under a star which may be dark by n...
Monday, October 22, 2007

511. Excerpt from Oedipus - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Translated from the Greek by Ted Hughes Act Five. Chorus draws the moral: fate cannot be avoided Fate is the master of everything ... it is ...
Friday, October 19, 2007

510. Henry James At Newport - Weldon Kees

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(For Ann) And shores and strands and naked piers, Sunset on waves, orange laddering the blue, White sails on headlands, cool Wide curving ba...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

509. Sweet Talk - Billy Collins

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You are not the Mona Lisa with that relentless look. Or Venus borne over the froth of waves on a pink half shell. Or an odalisque by Delacro...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

508. In The Louvre - Harvey Shapiro

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Merode, Annunciation I like my miracles in the living room as in this 15th-century Dutch Annunciation. The lady puts her book down for a mom...
Monday, October 15, 2007

507 - The Dance - William Carlos Williams

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In Brueghel's great picture, The Kermess, the dancers go round, they go round and around, the squeal and the blare and the tweedle of ba...
Friday, October 12, 2007

506. The All-Encompassing - Pattiann Rogers

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Philosopher in Meditation by Rembrandt The philosopher is the old, bearded man in the red beanie, dozing, it seems, in the sun by the window...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

505. People On A Bridge - Wislawa Szymborska (3)

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Translated from the Polish by Adam Czerniawski Dziwna A strange planet with its strange people. They yield to time but don't recognise i...
Tuesday, October 09, 2007

504. People On The Bridge - Wislawa Szymborska (2)

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Translated from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak (Hiroshige Utagawa: "The Landscape") Strange planet and strange people on it. They y...
Monday, October 08, 2007

503. The People On The Bridge - Wislawa Szymborska (1)

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(Hiroshige Utagawa: "The Landscape") Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh An odd planet, and those...
Friday, October 05, 2007

502 Devotions, Six O'Clock - Lynne Knight

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(After Paul Klee's La Belle Jardinière) The beautiful gardener stood in the rain and sang down to the roots of all she'd lost and se...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

501. Hephaestus Starts Achilles' Shield

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From: http://www.webwinds.com/myth/hephaestus2.htm Hephaestus Starts Achilles' Shield in Iliad XVIII: 508, Lombardo translation Hephaest...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007

500. Watercolor By Paul Klee - Diane Ackerman

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Because your head is a birdcage (Jeder Mensch hat seinen Vogel), because your brows still ladder high in surprise, because your eye slots a...
Thursday, September 27, 2007

499. Candle Hat - Billy Collins

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In most self-portraits it is the face that dominates: Cezanne is a pair of eyes swimming in brushstrokes, Van Gogh stares out of a halo of s...