seeking stars
CHRISTMAS TREE - James Merrill
I’m going to sleep - Jean Valentine
Mirabai
Archaic Torso of Apollo - Rainer Marie Rilke, tr. Stephen Mitchell
SNOWDROPS - Louise Glück
YES, I KNOW - Taiwo Hassan
In Passing - Lisel Muller
In cartoons, one can paint a hole in the wall - Bill Nuemire
Ode I. 11
THE BLESSING - James Wright
The Nightfields - Joanna Klink
Obstacle - Jane Hirshfield
continuation day
The Bright Field - RS Thomas
October Arriving - Charles Simic
MASKS - Shel Silverstein
The Townspeople Watch Them Take Alfonso - Ilya Kaminsky
GRACE - Wendell Berry
The solitude of an apricot - Carl Adamshick
I Live My Life in Widening Circles - Rainer Maria Rilke
Marcel Proust - The Sea
To Whoever Is Reading Me - Jorge Luis Borges, tr. Alastair Reed
Wing-Spread Pelt - Dean Young
BURDEN STITCH - Ashley McWaters
A field in Scurry County - Christian Wiman
Once in a While I Am Reminded - Leila Chatti
Devin Kelly, from Ordinary Plots: “J. Estanislao Lopez’s ‘What the Fingers Do’” [transcript in ALT]
GALACTIC - Jim Harrison
And Now It’s September - Barbara Crooker
From “Perhaps the world ends here” - Joy Harjo
Untitled - [This is what was bequeathed us] - Gregory Orr
The Gun Joke - Jamaal May
The Mower - Philip Larkin
ALL THAT WANTING, RIGHT? - Devin Kelly
Existence: Thich Nhat Hanh