Thursday, November 28, 2013

956. Words In A Certain Appropriate Mode - Hayden Carruth

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. It is not music, though one has tried music. 
It is not nature, though one has tried
 The rose, the bluebird, and the bear.
 It is not...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

955. Going To Horse Flats (excerpt) - Robinson Jeffers

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. Amazingly active a toothless old man Hobbled beside me up the canyon, going to Horse Flats, he said, To see to some hives of bees. It w...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

954. The Fix-Up - Judith Viorst

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. I have this friend Muriel who is attractive and intelligent and     terribly understanding and loyal and My husband has this friend Ralph ...
Tuesday, November 05, 2013

953. Theatre Impressions (2) - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh For me the tragedy's most important act is the sixth: the raisin...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

952. Shadows - Linda Hussa

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. The winter solstice is passed. The new year will find its way on dreams we have not yet dreamed. In spring's papery dawns the living s...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

951. I Remember Galileo - Gerald Stern

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. I remember Galileo describing mind as a piece of paper blown around by the wind, and I loved the sight of it sticking to a tree or jumping...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

950. Saint Francis and the Sow - Galway Kinnell

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. The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don't flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; th...
Saturday, October 05, 2013

949. Poem Of The One World - Mary Oliver

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. This morning the beautiful white heron was floating along above the water and then into the sky of this the one world we all belong...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

948 - For the Sleepwalkers - Edward Hirsch

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. Tonight I want to say something wonderful for the sleepwalkers who have so much faith in their legs, so much faith in the invisible a...
Friday, September 20, 2013

947. California - Hayden Carruth

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For Adrienne Rich To come again into the place of revolutionary thought after years in the wilderness of complacency and hard-eyed greed...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

946. Second Fall in the Afterlife - Dean Young

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First I go out into the yard to see what survived the night. The broken birdbath still holds a few handfuls of water, good enough for th...