日期：2011-11-02 If I could catch a rainbow I would do it just for you And share with its beauty On the days you're feeling blue. If I could build a mountain You could call your very own A place to find serenity（平静） A place to be alone. If I could take your trou... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-09-23 Again the wood, and long with－drawing vale, In many a tint of tender green are dressed, Where the young leaves unfolding scarce conceal Reneath their early shade the halfformed nest Of finch or wood－lark; and the primrose pale, And lavish cowslip,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-20 The End of It Kim Addonizio I have foresworn desire. I am become as a stink bug. Yea verily I am a roly poly. No more for me the hanky panky（把戏，花招） . I neither lick nor moan. I neither swallow nor spit. I'm through with all that. Moonlight on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-08-20 Via Dolorosa Traci Brimhall We have been telling the story wrong all along, how a king took Philomela's tongue after he had taken her body, and how the gods turned her into a nightingale（夜莺） so she could tell the night of her grief. Even now the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-07 A Rose Tree Fleur Adcock When we went to live at Top Lodge my mother gave me a rose tree. She didn't have to pay for it it was growing there already, tall and old, by the gravel（碎石） drive where we used to ride our scooters（踏板车） . No one els... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-07 Again Norman Dubie Id left Paris for the beaches in Spain. Id sold my dead fathers farm and, in shame, bought it back again at a great loss . . . then a plough（犁） found a shelf of bismuth（铋） and I sold just the north pasture（牧草） for big se... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-07 What the Mapmaker Knows Mary Jo Bang O is the ocean and t the consequence of time at the edge of a landscape of dots plotted into the plane with a constant scale. Any place can be located and later divided by cultural and social data and sketched on... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-09 Blue Window James Meetze You are an arc of light in sycamore（美国梧桐） leaves, churned-up dust, the sun's disturbance, beside workers and workday traffic. Bronze light in every space we inhabit. This big sky we are under, a portal without law. Eve... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-09 Kessler's Coffin Factory Ogden Avenue, Jersey City Hot days the workers threw open the shop doors and the neighborhood buzzed（发出嗡嗡声） with the rip of their saws through the seasoned planks of walnut（胡桃） , birch（桦树） , and maple. Pine sh... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-02 The Tinder-BoxHenceforth,we gonna show you every way We gonna change it perfectly every day We gonna make you ever brave You're gonna to know that you'll be free If HOVER（徘徊，盘旋） can open up your mind Don't say it never can be real You could s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-26 Beggar's Cup Jack Myers I'm slowing down now, imperceptibly（细微地） , it seems, like a river spreading itself out into a delta（三角洲） where the minute metallic taste of salt, like paradox（悖论） blooming in the darkness, takes me out. I can se... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-26 Black Loam Jack Myers It's been another good year. I pitchfork（骤然塞进） my poems into the air over and over until the black grains of letters pile up into never before thought of things. All winter I'll pound them into dust and bake from that the... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-26 The Grotto Fanny Howe Let's make believe we're lying together on our backs. The lumps（肿块） in the floor are dirt and grass and the blackbirds（画眉） tickle us with their claws until we chirp and laugh. This is fearlessness. The sky wears no bell... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-05-26 We pass over heavy shadows of large clouds pinned to traincars lined up like unused blocks of colored chalkred then green, blue then orangeuntil we are propelled（推动，驱使） higher, and the trains are swallowed by these jagged（锯齿状的） strictur... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-04-27 Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, 'the night is starry（星光照耀的） and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance'. The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-25 The Challenge Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others worry about small problems, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others complain about small losses, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but no... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-11 Daylight God is proven in some way by the extreme difficulty of believing in him... SIMONE WEIL July already, and the land is soon to burn, the sun at midday casting its least shadow. Across the road, the unmown pasture（草地，牧场） will whiten und... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-02 Lemon Danielle Cadena Deulen They loved each other, but a lemon tree grew between themno solace（安慰，慰藉） in the way it leaned, as if to whisper from her yard into his, across the coyote（北美小狼） fence, a promise of something greater. The fru... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-02 Splitting Ice Kay Ryan Like standing on splitting（极快的，爆裂似的） ice one foot on one one on the other piece. Distressed（痛苦的） like the family of man at the divorce of the plates: some cast into a suddenly new world as though having sinned;... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-15 In Every Life Alicia Ostriker In every life theres a moment or two when the self disappears, the cruel wound takes over, and then again at times we are filled with sky or with birds or simply with the sugary tea on the table said the old woman I kno... 阅读全文>>