Monday, May 29, 2017

1011. Sunset Oien - Shuntaro Tanikawa

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Sometimes I reread poems I wrote long ago I don't ask textbook questions like "what was the author feeling when he wrote this?...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

1010. Good Bones - Maggie Smith

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Good Bones by Maggie Smith Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I've shortened mine in a thousand ...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

1009. And - Shuntarō Tanikawa

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Translated from the Japanese by William I Elliott and Kazuo Kawamure When summer comes the cicadas sing again. Fireworks freeze in my...
Tuesday, April 04, 2017

1008. What Is Lost - Jorge Luis Borges

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Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler I wonder whee my life is, the one that could have been and never was, the daring one or ...

1007. First Sight - Philip Larkin

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. Lambs that learn to walk in snow When their bleating clouds the air Meet a vast unwelcome, know Nothing but a sunless glare. Newl...
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...