Thursday, March 09, 2017

1006. And Now You - Kate Miller

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From The Observances , Kate Miller’s debut collection Carcanet, 2015. And now you exist outside the royal room of blood you occupie...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

1005. Italy to Lord - Jane Draycott

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(From:  The Occupant ) It’s dark in here and forest green: Britannica, sixteen oak trees in a London living room, the little girl, m...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

1004. Labyrinth - Jorge Luis Borges

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Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler There’ll never be a door. You are inside and the fortress contains the universe and ...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

1003. The Lake of Memories - Robert Altmann

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. Voices sit like broken chairs in a room. A room stands for the ceremony of impermanence. Impermanence cracks the façade ...
Saturday, January 14, 2017

1002. Meeting Point - Louis MacNeice

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(?) Time was away and somewhere else, There were two glasses and two chairs And two people with the one pulse (Somebody stopped t...
Sunday, January 08, 2017

1001. The Dog Itself - Helen Farish

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. Memory rounds this up, breathless, like the dog herding sheep below the bedroom window: dropped at my feet are smells – wool in...
Wednesday, January 04, 2017

1,000 !!!!! Burning the Old Year - Naomi Shihab Nye

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. Letters swallow themselves in seconds. Notes friends tied to the doorknob, transparent scarlet paper, sizzle like moth wings, m...
Saturday, December 24, 2016

999. The Good Shepherd - Stanley Moss

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. Because he would not abandon the flock for a lost sheep after the others had bedded down for the night, he turned back, searched th...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

998. Compass - Jorge Luis Borges

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   Translated from the Spanish by Alastair Reed Every single thing becomes a word in a language that Someone or Something, night and ...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

997. Hojoki - Kennith Rexroth

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Hojoki by Kennith Rexroth A thing unknown for years,  Rain falls heavily in June,  On the ripe cherries, and on  The half cut ha...
Friday, October 21, 2016

996. The Real World - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated by S. Barańczak and C. Cavanagh The real world doesn’t take flight the way dreams do. No muffled voice, no doorbell can...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

995. Villanelle For Our Time - Frank Scott

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. From bitter searching of the heart, Quickened with passion and with pain We rise to play a greater part. This is the faith from w...
Monday, August 15, 2016

994. For The Living - Stephen Meadows

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. Standing high on this hillside the wind off the Pacific forming the language of grasses and escarpment eternally speaking the s...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

993. Andree Rexroth by Kenneth Rexroth

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Mt. Tamalpais The years have gone. It is spring Again. Mars and Saturn will Soon come on, low in the West, In the dusk. Now the...
Wednesday, June 01, 2016

992. Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain - Li Po

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. The birds have vanished down the sky, Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mou...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

991. Eagle Poem - Joy Harjo

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Joy Harjo - Eagle Poem To pray you open your whole self To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon To one whole voice that is you. And kno...
Saturday, March 19, 2016

990. An Idea - Wislawa Szymborska

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Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Stanislaw Baranczak An idea came to me for a rhyme? a poem? Well, fine — I say ...
Monday, December 21, 2015

989. Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit - Wallace Stevens

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. If there must be a god in the house, must be, Saying things in the rooms and on the stair, Let him move as the sunlight moves on the ...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

988. The Lay Of The Trilobite - May Kendall

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Carol Rumens's poem of the week Poem of the week: The Lay of the Trilobite by May Kendall A Victorian satire on evolutionary t...
Tuesday, November 17, 2015

987. The Hinds - Kathleen Jamie

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Carol Rumens's poem of the week in The Guardian Each week Carol Rumens picks a poem to discuss. Written amid the ‘tremendous energy...