Poems you don't have to be a poet to love
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One final vulture
Ending this series with one by Ross Gay.
Sorrow Is Not My Name
—after Gwendolyn Brooks
No matter the pull toward brink. No
matter the florid, deep sleep awaits.
There is a time for everything. Look,
just this morning a vulture...
An Enskyment
From the almost forgotten Robinson Jeffers…
Vulture
I had walked since dawn and lay down to rest on a bare hillside
Above the ocean.
I saw through half-shut eyelids a vulture wheeling high up in heaven,
And presently it passed a...
Vultures
This poems from C.K. Wiliams’ Selected Later Poems. The first of several vulture poems coming your way.
At What Time on the Sabbath Do the Vultures Awake?
Yesterday, at four in the afternoon there were as accurately as I could count s...
Curve
Final Curve
When you turn the corner
And you run into yourself
Then you know that you have turned
All the corners that are left.
Langston Hughes
Night Rain
As we head into these Northern California dry summer months, this poem is especially poignant:
Night Rain
Like the first gods
emerging from the surf
the dogwoods
shed droplets of light.
And the puddles—they're silver keys...
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Meryl Natchez took a leave of absence in her Junior year of college and has been rigorously home schooling herself ever since. Her fourth book, Catwalk, received an Indie Best Book 2020 Award from Kirkus Reviews.
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