Monday, June 30, 2008

685. Now I Become Myself - May Sarton

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. Now I become myself. It's taken Time, many years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people's faces, Run madl...
Friday, June 27, 2008

684. The Great Number - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by ? Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is as it was. It copes badly with great numbers, moved...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

683. Sarah Chang plays viloin - Kathleen Flenniken

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. Sarah Chang plays violin and stamps her foot like a flamenco dancer. White flames lick the hem of her Madame X dress and the orchestra lea...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

682. Adam And Eve In Later Life - Howard Nemerov

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. On getting out of bed the one says, "Ouch!" The other "What?" and when the one says "I said 'Ouch,' ...
Friday, June 20, 2008

681. Halloween - Mac Hammond

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. The butcher knife goes in, first, at the top And carves out the round stemmed lid, The hole of which allows the hand to go In to pull the ...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

680. To Be Of Use - Marge Piercy

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. The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

679. Going To Sea - David Wagoner

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. Since we're setting out to sea, everything in our world Has suddenly one of two clear, separate names: What We Leave Behind And What W...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

678. The Poet On The Island - Richard Murphy

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(To Theodore Roethke) On a wet night, laden with books for luggage, And stumbling under the burden of himself, He reached the pier, looking ...
Friday, June 13, 2008

677. When We Saw The Islands Again - Tomas Tranströmer

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. As the boat draws near a sudden downpour blinds it. Quicksilver shot bounces on the water. The blue-grey lies down. The sea's in...
Thursday, June 12, 2008

676. Utopia - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh Island where all becomes clear. Solid ground beneath your feet. The onl...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

675. In Those Years - Adrienne Rich

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. In those years, people will say, we lost track of the meaning of we , of you we found ourselves reduced to I and the whole thing became si...
Monday, June 09, 2008

674. What We Want - Linda Pastan

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. What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our names-...
Friday, June 06, 2008

673. Objector - William Stafford

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. In line at lunch I cross my fork and spoon to ward off complicity—the ordered life our leaders have offered us. Thin as a knife, our chanc...
Thursday, June 05, 2008

672. A Vision - Wendell Berry

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. If we will have the wisdom to survive, to stand like slow-growing trees on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it, if we will make our sea...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

671. The Heart Of Hercules - Kenneth Rexroth

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. Lying under the stars in the summer night Late while the autumn constellations climb the sky as the cluster of Hercules falls down the wes...
Monday, June 02, 2008

670. Musicians - Jan Zwicky

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"Please remove the poem #670, "Musicians" from your site. It is incorrect and offensive" Jan Zwicky
Friday, May 30, 2008

669. For The Children - Gary Snyder

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. The rising hills, the slopes, of statistics lie before us. the steep climb of everything, going up, up, as we all go down. In the next ce...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

668. In Memory Of Dennis Turner, 1946-1984 - Edward Hirsch

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. A hook shot kisses the rim and hangs there, helplessly, but doesn't drop, and for once our gangly starting center boxes out his man an...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

667. Break - Dorianne Laux

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. We put the puzzle together piece by piece, loving how one curved notch fits so sweetly with another. A yellow smudge becomes the brush of ...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

666. The Work Of Happiness - May Sarton

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. I thought of happiness how it is woven Out of the silence in the empty house each day And how it is not sudden and it is not given But is ...