Wednesday, January 28, 2009

767. The silent Movies - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Walter Whipple If there are angels they probably don't read our novels about disappointed hopes. I'm a...
Monday, January 26, 2009

766. Solving The Puzzle - Steven Dunn

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. I couldn't make all the pieces fit, so I threw one away. No expectation of success now, none of that worry. The remaining pieces seeme...
Wednesday, January 21, 2009

765. For Thomas Hardy - Dennis Haskell

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. Start with simple things: Grass, the earth, the roots of grass. Perhaps meaning is found Only in the minute perception Of old and familiar...
Monday, January 19, 2009

764. To the master Dōen Zenji - Robert Gray

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. Dōgen came in and sat on the wood platform, all the people had gathered like birds upon the lake. After years, he'd come back from Chi...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

763. Rapture - Galway Kinnell

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. I can feel she has got out of bed. That means it is seven a.m. I have been lying with eyes shut, thinking, or possibly dreaming, of how sh...
Friday, January 16, 2009

762. Icarus - Valentin Iremonger

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. As, even to-day, the airman, feeling the plane sweat Suddenly, seeing the horizon tilt up gravely, the wings shiver, Knows that, for once,...
Tuesday, January 13, 2009

761. Nothing's A Gift - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Walter Whipple Nothing's a gift, everything is borrowed. I'm drowning in debts up to my ears. I will b...
Monday, January 12, 2009

760. In Trackless Woods - Richard Wilbur

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. In trackless woods, it puzzled me to find Four great rock maples seemingly aligned, As if they had been set out in a row Before some house...
Friday, January 09, 2009

759. Stern Visage - Nina Nyhart

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(after a painting my Paul Klee) A man decides he doesn't want to die, he wants to take a trip. It might be a long trip, he thinks, so I...
Monday, January 05, 2009

758. The Tapestry - Howard Nemerov

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. On this side of the tapestry There sits the bearded king, And round about him stand His lords and ladies in a ring. His hunting dogs are t...
Friday, January 02, 2009

757. Beethoven's Quartet in C Major, Opus 59 - Linda Pastan

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. The violins are passionately occupied but it is the cellist who seems to be holding the music in his arms, moving his bow as if it were a ...
Monday, December 29, 2008

756. Drinking Wine - Wislawa Szymborska

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Wislawa Szymborska - Drinking Wine (1) Translated from the Polish by Graźyna Drabik and Sharon Olds He looked, and gave me beauty, and I too...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

755. This Way Out - Rui Pires Cabral

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. But is there a way out? Imagine in insomnia the forests that grow at such hours in other regions, the trains that cross them to reach a de...
Monday, December 22, 2008

754. The Calm - David Wagoner

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. Drifting and mimicking the loss of the wind With a loss of mind, Left slack-sailed here in the sea, doing nothing at all For days, we begi...
Friday, December 19, 2008

753. Alphabet Song - Linda Pastan

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Linda Pastan - Alphabet Song Like a train made up of 26 boxcars, the alphabet drags such a heavy cargo down the tracks, such strange, compel...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008

752. Last Gods - Galway Kinnell

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She sits naked on a rock a few yards out in the water. He stands on the shore, also naked, picking blueberries. She calls. He turns. she ope...
Thursday, December 11, 2008

751. Vermeer - Howard Nemerov

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. Taking what is, and seeing it as it is, Pretending to no heroic stances or gestures, Keeping it simple; being in love with light And the m...
Tuesday, December 09, 2008

750. Vermeer - Tomas Tranströmer

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. No sheltered world . . . on the other side of the wall the noise begin Tomas Tranströmer - Vermeer Translated from the Swedish by ? N...
Monday, December 08, 2008

749. True Love - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh. True love. Is it normal is it serious, is it practical? What does the ...
Monday, December 01, 2008

748. Angel - James Merrill

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. Above my desk, whirring and self-important (Though not much larger than a hummingbird) In finely woven robes, school of Van Eyck, Hovers a...