Wednesday, July 30, 2008

704. Inniskeen Road: July Evening - Patrick Kavanagh

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. The bicycles go by in twos and threes – There's a dance in Billy Brennan's barn tonight, And there's the half-talk code of mys...
Friday, July 25, 2008

703. Taking Our Bearings - David Wagoner

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. To find out where we are, we gaze at the sunset, Then the moon and stars. We bring their images down to touch the sea, And there we are: t...
Thursday, July 24, 2008

702. Drift - Linda Pastan

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Lying in bed this morning you read to me of continental drift, how Africa and South America sleeping once side by side slowly slid apart; ho...
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

701. Drawing Lessons - Howard Nemerov

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I Your pencil will do particles and waves–– We call them points and lines––and nothing else. Today we shall explore the mystery Of points an...
Monday, July 21, 2008

700. Five Villanelles - Weldon Kees

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I. The crack is moving down the wall. Defective plaster isn't all the cause. We must remain until the roof falls in. It's mildly che...
Friday, July 18, 2008

699. Falling Asleep In The Garden - David Wagoner

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. All day the bees have come to the garden. They hover, swivel in arcs and, whirling, light On stamens heavy with pollen, probe and revel In...
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...