Thursday, July 17, 2008

698. Prosody 101 - Linda Pastan

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. When they taught me that what mattered most was not the strict iambic line goose-stepping over the page but the variations in that line an...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

697. Spring Evenng On Blind Mountain - Louise Erdrich

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I won't drink wine tonight I want to hear what is going on not in my own head but all around me. I sit for hours outside our house on Bl...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

696. Cassandra - Wislawa Szymborska

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. It's me, Cassandra. And this is my city covered with ashes. And this is my rod, and the ribbons of a prophet. And this is my head full...
Monday, July 14, 2008

695. Canal Bank Walk - Patrick Kavanagh

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. Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal Pouring redemption for me, that I do The will of God, wallow in the habitual, the ...
Friday, July 11, 2008

694. Antarctica - Derek Mahon

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. ‘I am just going outside and may be some time.’ The others nod, pretending not to know. At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime. He le...
Thursday, July 10, 2008

693. Security William Stafford

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. Tomorrow will have an island. Before night I always find it. Then on to the next island. These places hidden in the day separate and come ...
Wednesday, July 09, 2008

692. I Do Not Love You - Pablo Neruda

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. I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things ar...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008

691. Syros (1 & 2) Tomas Tranströmer

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Tomas Tranströmer - Syros (1) Translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton In Syros harbor leftover cargo steamers lay waiting. Prow by p...
Monday, July 07, 2008

690. The Wild Geese - Wendell Berry

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. Horseback on Sunday morning, harvest over, we taste persimmon and wild grape, sharp sweet of summer's end. In time's maze over th...
Friday, July 04, 2008

689 - An Introduction To Some Poems - William Stafford

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. Look: no one ever promised for sure that we would sing. We have decided to moan. In a strange dance that we don't understand till we d...
Thursday, July 03, 2008

688. The House - Mary Oliver

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. Because we lived our several lives Caught up within the spells of love, Because we always had to run Through the enormous yards of day To ...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

687. Yad Mordechai - Yehuda Amichai

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. Yad Mordechai. Those who fell here still look out the windows like sick children who are not allowed outside to play. And on the hillside,...
Tuesday, July 01, 2008

686. An Introduction To Some Poems - Wiliam Stafford

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. Look: no one ever promised for sure that we would sing. We have decided to moan. In a strange dance that we don't understand till we d...
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...