Wednesday, August 30, 2006

199. Lost - David Wagoner

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. Stand still. The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerf...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

198. The Bog Queen - Seamus Heaney

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. I lay waiting between turf-face and demesne wall, between heathery levels and glass-toothed stone. My body was braille for the cree...

197. Leaving Something Behind - David Wagoner

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. A fox at your neck and snakeskin on your feet, You have gone to the city behind an ivory brooch, Wearing your charms for and against de...
Monday, August 28, 2006

196. CONSOLATION - Wislawa Szymborska

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(translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh & Stanislaw Baranczak) Darwin. They say he read novels to relax, But only certain kinds: n...
Saturday, August 26, 2006

195. in this cage some songs are born - Charles Bukowski

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. I write poetry, worry, smile, laugh sleep continue for a while just like most of us just like all of us; sometimes I want to hug all Manki...
Thursday, August 24, 2006

194. The Afterlife - Billy Collins

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. While you are preparing for sleep, brushing your teeth, or riffling through a magazine in bed, the dead of the day are setting out on t...
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

193. PROSPECTING - A. R. Ammons

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. Coming to cottonwoods, an orange rockshelf, and in the gully an edging of stream willows, I made camp and turned by mule loose to graze in...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006

192. A CIVIL WAR VETERAN... - Norbert Krapf

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Norbert Krapf - A Civil War Veteran from Indiana Recalls Visiting with Walt Whitman in a Washington Hospital Even now, as I stare into the f...
Sunday, August 20, 2006

191. ODYSSEUS'S SECRET - Stephen Dunn

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. At first he thought only of home, and Penelope. But after a few years, like anyone on his own, he couldn't separate what he'd chos...
Saturday, August 19, 2006

190. Meeting A Bear - David Wagoner

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. If you haven't made noise enough to warn him, singing, shouting, Or thumping sticks against trees as you walk in the woods, Giving ...
Monday, August 14, 2006

189. WASTED - Charles Bukowski

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. too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives. and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn...
Saturday, August 12, 2006

288. Lost - David Wagoner

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. Stand still. The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerf...
Friday, August 11, 2006

187. CAPRICCIO ITALIEN - Stephen Dunn

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. From the mountain drifts down the finest mist, so fine you walk in it, letting it glaze your hair, while boats on the lake bob and blur. T...
Thursday, August 10, 2006

186. 1979 - Wendell Berry

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. I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water. My tasks lie in their places where I left t...
Wednesday, August 09, 2006

185. BIOGRAPHY IN THE FIRST PERSON - Stephen Dunn

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. This is not the way I am. Really, I am much taller in person, the hairline I conceal reaches back to my grandfather, and the shyness my wi...
Tuesday, August 08, 2006

184. A NOTE - Wislawa Szymborska

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. Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell ...
Monday, August 07, 2006

183. OLD WALT - Langston Hughes

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. Old Walt Whitman Went finding and seeking, Finding less than sought Seeking more than found, Every detail minding Of the seeking or the fi...
Saturday, August 05, 2006

182. be alone - Charles Bukowski

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. when you think about how often it all goes wrong again and again you begin to look at the walls and yearn to stay inside because the stree...
Friday, August 04, 2006

181. a vote for the gentle light - Charles Bukowski

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. a vote for the gentle light burned senseless by other people's constant depression, I pull the curtains apart, aching for the gentle l...
Thursday, August 03, 2006

180. AFTER - Stehpen Dunn

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Stephen Dunn - After Jack and Jill at home together after their fall, the bucket spilled, her knees badly scraped, and Jack with not even an...