Wednesday, April 30, 2008

650. The Palace - Tomas Tranströmer

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Translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton We stepped in. A single vast hall, silent and empty, where the surface of the floor lay like...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

649. After Years - Ted Kooser

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. Today, from a distance, I saw you walking away, and without a sound the glittering face of a glacier slid into the sea. An ancient oak fel...
Monday, April 28, 2008

648. Unwritten Poem Reviewed - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Adam Czerniawski In the opening words of her composition the author asserts that the Earth is small, while the...
Friday, April 25, 2008

647. Daisies - Connie Wanek

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. In the democracy of daisies every blossom has one vote. The question on the ballot is Does he love me? If the answer's wrong I try ano...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

646. The Quarrel - Linda Pastan

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. If there were a monument to silence, it would not be the tree whose leaves murmur continuously among themselves; nor would it be the pond ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

645. For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid - William Stafford

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. There is a country to cross you will find in the corner of your eye, in the quick slip of your foot—air far down, a snap that might have c...
Monday, April 21, 2008

644. John Clare - Mark Halperin

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Sometimes there is a man– I never feel him come but he is who I am and I am someone. He does not care to stay. If we are both John Clare why...
Friday, April 18, 2008

643. Variations On The Word Sleep - Margaret Atwood

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. I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen I would like to watch you sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to enter your...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

642. 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...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

641. Der Abschied - May Sarton

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. Now frost has broken summer like a glass, This house and I resume our conversations; The floors whisper a message as I pass, I wander up a...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008

640. The Crossing-Place - Tomas Tranströmer (2)

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Translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton Ice-wind in my eyes and the suns dance in the kaleidoscope of tears as I cross the street th...
Monday, April 14, 2008

639. Whshhh - Sonnet L'Abbe

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. by this dim moon's light I invite you to my mind we are meeting in a darkness we are setting out to find the words to t...
Friday, April 11, 2008

638. I Feel I Am - John Clare

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I feel I am. I only know I am And plod upon the earth as dull and void Earth's prison chilled my body with its dram Of dullness, and my ...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008

637. Travel Elegy - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh Everything's mine but just on loan, nothing for the memory to hold...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008

636. Degrees Of Gray In Philipsburg - Richard Hugo

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. You might come here Sunday on a whim. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was years ago. You walk these stree...
Monday, April 07, 2008

635. Heard In A Violent Ward - Theodore Roethke

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. In heaven, too, You'd be institutionalized But that's all right,– If they let you eat and swear With the likes of Blake, And Chris...
Friday, April 04, 2008

634. Romanesque Arches - Tomas Tranströmer

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. Inside the huge Romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half darkness. vault gaped behind vault, no complete view. A few candle f...
Thursday, April 03, 2008

633. Next Day - Randall Jarrell

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. Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All, I take a box And add it to my wild rice, my Cornish game hens. The slac...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

632. A Music - Wendell Berry

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. I employ the blind mandolin player in the the tunnel of the Mètro. I pay him a coin as hard as his notes, and maybe he has employed me, an...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

631. Du Rêve, De La Mathématique, Et De La Mort - Howard Nemerov

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. On dreams, on mathematics, and on death. Card-catalogues turn up such heady stuff Sometimes as this, this rapture from the depths Which is...