Tuesday, November 26, 2024

1166. No; 6 - Charles Bukowski

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  I’ll settle for the 6 horse on a rainy afternoon a paper cup of coffee in my hand a little way to go, the wind twirling out small wrens fr...
Friday, November 01, 2024

1165. On A Painting by Wang The Clerk of Yen Ling - Su Tung P’O (1036-1101)

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The slender bamboo is like a hermit. The simple flower is like a maiden. The sparrow tilts on the branch. A gust of rain sprinkles the flowe...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

1164, My Weariness of Epic Proportions - Charles Simic

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I like it when Achilles Gets killed And even his buddy Patroclus- And that hothead Hector- And the whole Greek and Trojan Jeunesse do...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

1163. A Plain Ordinary Steel Needle - Kay Ryan

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     - Ripley’s Believe It Or Not?- Who hasn’t seen a plain ordinary steel needle float serene on water as if lying on a pillow? The w...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

1162. From Blossoms - Li-Young Lee

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  A first! I enjoyed every poem in this book. “Dancing With Joy” 99 Poems selected by Roger Housden From laden boughs, from hands, this ...
Sunday, September 22, 2024

1161. Evening Ebb - Robinson Jeffers

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The ocean has not been so quiet for a long while; five night-herons Fly shoreline voiceless in the hush of the air Over the calm of an ebb...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

1160. Snowstorm - Hayden Carruth

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  Everywhere men speak in whispers. Tumult, many new ghosts. Storm hurls itself across the valley and careens from the ridges, swirls o...
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

1159. Yes - Muriel Rukeyser

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It's like a tap-dance Or a new pink dress, A shit-naive feeling Saying yes. Some say Good morning Some say God bless Some say Possibly S...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

1158. With Kit, Age 7, At The Beach - William Stafford

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We would climb the highest dune, from there to gaze and come down: the ocean was performing; we contributed our climb. Waves leapfrogge...
Wednesday, July 03, 2024

1157. A Hardware Store As Proof of the Existence of God - Nancy Willard

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I praise the brightness of hammers pointing east like the steel woodpeckers of the future,  and dozens of hinges opening brass wings, and ...