Living ~ Denise Levertov The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer. The wind blowing, the leaves shivering in the sun, each day the last day. A red salamander so cold and so easy to catch, dreamily moves his delicate feet and long tail. I hold my hand open […]
The Evening Star ~ Louise Glück Tonight, for the first time in many years, there appeared to me again a vision of the earth’s splendor: in the evening sky the first star seemed to increase in brilliance as the earth darkened until at last it could grow no darker. And the light, which was the light […]
Warming Her Pearls ~ Carol Ann Duffy for Judith Radstone Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress bids me wear them, warm them, until evening when I’ll brush her hair. At six, I place them round her cool, white throat. All day I think of her, resting in the Yellow Room, contemplating silk […]
A Strange New Cottage In Berkeley ~ Alan Ginsberg All afternoon cutting bramble blackberries off a tottering brown fence under a low branch with its rotten old apricots miscellaneous under the leaves, fixing the drip in the intricate gut machinery of a new toilet; found a good coffee pot in the vines by the porch, […]
The South ~ Wang Chen Translated from Chinese by Arthur Waley (I was unable to find a web page referencing Wang Chen. If you know of one, please enlighten me!) In the southern land many birds sing; Of towns and cities half are unwalled. The country markets are thronged by wild tribes; The mountain-villages bear […]
