Seamus Heaney, “A Hagging Match”
A Hagging Match (from The New Yorker) Seamus Heaney Axe-thumps outside like wave-hits through a night ferry: you whom I cleave to, hew to, splitting firewood. C...
Category: poetry
Kay Ryan, “Fatal Flaw”
Fatal Flaw (from Erratic Facts) Kay Ryan The fatal flaw works through the body like a needle, just a stitch now and then, again and again missing the heart. Mos...
Walt Whitman, “The Runner”
The Runner Walt Whitman ON a flat road runs the well-train’d runner; He is lean and sinewy, with muscular legs; He is thinly clothed—he leans forward as h...
Fanny Howe, “Yellow Goblins”
Yellow Goblins (from Poetry) Fanny Howe Yellow goblins and a god I can swallow: Eyes in the evergreens under ice. Interior monologue and some voice. Weary fears...
Judah al-Harizi, “The Sun”
The Sun (from A Book of Luminous Things, ed. Milosz) Judah al-Harizi (tr. T. Carmi) Look: the sun has spread its wings over the earth to dispel the darkness. Li...