Sunday, June 22, 2025

1184.Let No Charitable Hope - Elinor Wylie

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Now let no charitable hope Confuse my mind with images Of eagle and of antelope I am in nature none of these I am, being human, born alone, ...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

1183. The Silence Now - May Sarton

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These days the silence is immense. It is there deep down, not to be escaped. The twittering flight of gold finches, The three crows cawing i...
Sunday, June 08, 2025

1182. Poem For Nelson - Sylvia Miles

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September 22, 2004 For Nelson: not a week has passed  since you left us. That I haven’t Missed your guileless southern smile Your pile of sh...

1181. For Sylvia - Nelson Sullivan

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For Sylvia, a million kisses. Few are hits: most are misses. What chance has a superstar To hear the far-off praises? She glides in star...
Saturday, May 31, 2025

1180. Castilian - Elinor Wyle

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  Velasquez took a pliant knife And scraped his palette clean, He said, “I lead a dog’g own life Painting a king and queen.” He cleaned his ...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

1179. Georgia O’Keeffe, “From the Faraway, Nearby,” 1937 - Camille Carter

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Make no bones about it—                            or better yet, make bones: sand-borne, sun-bleached, bald-faced bones naked but for a Sou...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

1178. The Dance - William Carlos Williams, 1944

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  In Breughel’s great picture, The Kermess, the dancers go round  they go round and around, the squeal and the blare and the tweedle of b...

1177. Seance - Wislawa Szymborska

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  Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh Happenstance reveals its tricks. It produces, by sleight of hand, ...