Poem A Day – March 14, 2016
#MIDDLEBURY
The Oak
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
. . . It is the last survivor of a race
Strong in their forest-pride when I was young.
I can remember when, for miles around,
In place of ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 13, 2016
#MIDDLEBURY
On My Sober Anniversary
Noelle Kocoty
A plausible place, this sea of air.
Somehow, the fragments of a later
Time get pulled out of the memory.
The earth surges up, the snow ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 12, 2016
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Daymark
Ossian Foley
bend and kiss what
you feel
contingent of what is
not
right now paranoia
the lands like you awful
lot due to stress of weather
the only place
by which
to ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 11, 2016
#MIDDLEBURY
from “Bildungsroman”
Malachi Black
i.m. Scott David Campbell (1982-2012)
Streetlights were our stars,
hanging from the midnight
in a planetary arc
above each ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 10, 2016
#MIDDLEBURY
Red Sky
Caryl Pagel
I have eaten my dinner
Do not despair
I have eaten my dinner and the Devil
When he comes will see
I have intact
A peripatetic philosophy
That prizes ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 9, 2016
Song for the Festival
Gretchen Marquette
At the May Day parade, my mask made of moss
and bark, my hair full of flowers, my friend beside me,
her pretty red mouth under the hawk’s ... Continue Reading →
Poem A Day – March 8, 2016
Binsey Poplars
Gerard Manley Hopkins
felled 1879
My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled,
Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun,
All felled, felled, are all felled;
Of a fresh ... Continue Reading →
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 →
