Thursday, December 19, 2024

1169. Three Mornings - Jane Hirshfield

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  In Istanbul my ears three mornings heard the early call to prayer. At fuller light, heard birds then, waterbirds and tree birds, birds of ...
Monday, December 16, 2024

1168. Letter to the Person Who, During the Q&A Session After the Reading, Asked for Career Advice - Matthew Olzmann

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The confusion you feel is not your fault. When we were younger, guidance counselors steered us toward respectable occupations: doctor, lawye...
Saturday, December 07, 2024

1167. A Maxim by Archy - Don Marquis

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i once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow’s hoof seriously debating the intention of...
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...