Saturday, May 29, 2021

1064. Such Grace - James Laughlin

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is in her step     such grace goes in the movement of her arms & shoulders as she walks such grace in how she holds her head     ...
Sunday, May 02, 2021

1063. For Earth's Grandsons - Joy Harjo

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Stand tall, no matter your heights, how dark your skin Your spirit is all colors within You are made of the finest woven light From the irid...
Sunday, April 04, 2021

1062. Becoming Human - Simon J. Ortiz

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We are given permission by the responsibility we accept and carry out. Nothing more, nothing less                              People are no...

1061. Museum Piece - Richard Wilbur

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The good gray guardians of art Patrol the halls on spongy shoes Impartially protetive though Perhaps suspicious of Toulouse.  Here dozes one...
Wednesday, March 10, 2021

1060. This Is Not A Poem - Joyce Carol Oates

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in which the poet discovers delicate white-parched bones of a small creature on a Great Lake shore or the desiccated remains of cruder roadk...
Monday, January 04, 2021

1059. Abbott's Lagoon - Robert Hass

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. The first thing that is apt to raise your eyes Above the dove-grey and silvery thickets Of lupine and coyote bush and artichoke thistle...
Monday, December 21, 2020

1058. Am I Not Lucky - James Laughlin

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 . that you decided to love me what if you decided to love a cat or a dog or dresses or even Paul Newman    Ive never quite understoo...
Friday, December 04, 2020

1057. Culture and the Universe - Simon J. Ortiz

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  Culture and the Universe BY SIMON J. ORTIZ Two nights ago in the canyon darkness, only the half-moon and stars, only mere men. Praye...
Monday, November 16, 2020

1056. From Here To There - David Wagoner

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. Though you can see in the distance, outlined precisely With speechless clarity, the place you must go, The problem remains Judging how...
Wednesday, November 04, 2020

1055. On Taking the Measure of Your Book - Fran Claggett-Holland

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For Michael Franco there must be a way to enter your poetry the way your words turn into meaning after meaning into the depths of memo...
Sunday, October 04, 2020

1054. Franz Marc's Blue Horses - Mary Oliver

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  Franz Marc’s Blue Horses - Mary Oliver I step into the painting of the four blue horses.  I am not even surprised that I can do this. ...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

1053. The Panther - Rainer Maria Rilke

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Translated by Robert Bly Jardin des Plantes, Paris From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted it no longer sees anything...
Friday, September 18, 2020

1052. For Those Who Would Govern - Joy Harjo

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  For Those Who Would Govern - Joy Harjo ( A member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation ( I know this is not a poem but......) First question: Ca...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

1051. Singing Everything - Joy Harjo (A member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation)

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  Singing Everything - Joy Harjo ( A member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation ) Once there were songs for everything, Songs for planting, for g...
Friday, August 14, 2020

1050. For The Conjunction Of Two Planets - Adrienne Rich

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. We smile at astrological hopes And leave the sky to expert men Who do not reckon horoscopes But painfully extend their ken In mathema...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

1049. Books And Thoughts - Walter Rinder

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. books and thoughts clean the mind of restrictions built by time through the pages we discover all the feelings held from each other w...
Saturday, August 01, 2020

1048. Arrivals - David Whyte

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. Imagine the confines of a long grey corridor just before immigration at Washington Dulles airport. Imagine two Ethiopian women amid...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

1047. Then And Now - James Laughlin

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. The Rain is speaking it pelts against the windows and on the roof in the night it makes thousands of little wo...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

1046. Breaking Camp - David Wagoner

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. Having spent a hard-earned sleep, you must break camp in the mountains At the break of day, pulling up stakes and packing, Scatteri...
Saturday, June 20, 2020

1045. Oh, Lovely Rock - Robinson Jeffers

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( How nice to find a poem written long ago that we have lived.) We stayed the night in the pathless gorge of Ventana Creek, up   the ...