9 posts tagged ‘Magazine / Poems’
“Summer Movies in Central Park,” by Czesław Miłosz
The New Yorker,
“It is this honor, Juliusz, that is granted us: / To resurrect new forms, forged of gold.”
“Night Sea, 1963,” by Victoria Chang
“In this room, my loneliness doubles because the edges of the painting are no longer white.”
“Dragonflies,” by Gregory Pardlo
“He gets it / from our side, his mouth almighty, for we Pardlo men / have been known to show less sense than appetite.”
“Federico García Lorca, Coney Island, 1929,” by Paul Muldoon
“For the moment a wave will make a splash.”
“DISINHIBITOR,” by Ariana Reines
“I’m not avoiding / My sadness I’m trying / To protect it.”
“Refrain,” by Linda Gregerson
“Is it only / in winter the sky goes white?”
“Memory and Geography”
“I know what you’d say— / we’re part of this scenery, no matter how irrational / the weather is.”
“I Am a Prayer,” by Joy Harjo
“I am a prayer of rain in the desert when the flowering ones need a drink.”