Poem A Day – March 5, 2016
The River
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And I behold once more
My old familiar haunts; here the blue river,
The same blue wonder that my infant eye
Admired, sage doubting whence the traveller ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 4, 2016
Cut Lilies
Noah Warren
More than a hundred dollars of them.
It was pure folly. I had to find more glass things to stuff them in.
Now a white and purple cloud is breathing in each corner
of ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 3, 2016
Proportion
Ben Doller
Just want things
proportional.
Just things,
not all.
Not kings, kings
should be below:
shoveling, dripping,
and most of all –
literally speaking –
not ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 2, 2016
How to Prepare the Mind for Lightning
Brynn Saito
In the recesses of the woman’s mind
there is a warehouse. The warehouse
is covered with wisteria. The wisteria wonders
what it ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 1, 2016
Blood Argument
April Bernard
You insist
that the world belongs to a stony-hearted goat-god –
how every time we act, we enact
his vileness; how this is no
ecstasy, just a bad labored ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 29, 2016
February 29
Jane Hirshfield
An extra day –
Like the painting’s fifth cow,
who looks out directly,
straight toward you,
from inside her black and white spots.
An extra day ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 26, 2016
Long Night Full Moon
D.A. Powell
You only watch the news to find out
where the fires are burning, which way
the wind is blowing, and whether
it will rain. Forecast ahead but first:
A ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 25, 2016
Kansas
Gary Jackson
It’s love you left, we’ll say
when you never come back
for bells for the dead, for the grave
stone heads: the only ones
that don’t keep count. ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – Feb. 24, 2016
Vapor
Sara Eliza Johnson
When it happens the rain
is not black but powder.
A noise bleeds from your ears
and everything quakes
alive inside you:
the circuits of the flowers
lighting ... Continue Reading →
