Life

Where I Live by Maxine Kumin
is vertical
On Living by Nazim Hikmet
Living is no laughing matter:
Difficult Body by Mark Wunderlich
A story: There was a cow in the road, struck by a semi--
Coda by Marilyn Hacker
Maybe it was jet lag, maybe not
The Layers by Stanley Kunitz
I have walked through many lives
Insomnia by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
But it's really fear you want to talk about
One Train May Hide Another by Kenneth Koch
In a poem, one line may hide another line,
The Secret by Denise Levertov
Two girls discover
Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus [excerpt] by Denise Levertov
Praise the wet snow
Yellow Beak by Stephen Dobyns
A man owns a green parrot with a yellow beak
How to Uproot a Tree by Jennifer K. Sweeney
Stupidity helps
Tear It Down by Jack Gilbert
We find out the heart only by dismantling what
Thrown as if Fierce & Wild by Dean Young
You don’t have a clue, says the power drill
What Wild-Eyed Murderer by Peter Meinke
We shouldn't worship suffering
First Things to Hand by Robert Pinsky
In the skull kept on the desk
Ashes of Life by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike
Samurai Song by Robert Pinsky
When I had no roof I made
August, 1953 by David Wojahn
A nurse gathers up the afterbirth. My mother
Daily Life by Susan Wood
A parrot of irritation sits
Elegy in Joy [excerpt] by Muriel Rukeyser
We tell beginnings: for the flesh and the answer
Little Night Prayer by Péter Kántor
Lord, I'm tired
What the Living Do by Marie Howe
Johnny, the kitchen sink has been clogged for days, some utensil probably fell down there
Frozen by Natasha Head
I have seen a life laid to waste
Life is Fine by Langston Hughes
I went down to the river,
Characteristics of Life by Camille T. Dungy
Ask me if I speak for the snail and I will tell you
won't you celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton
won't you celebrate with me
far memory by Lucille Clifton
my knees recall the pockets
Life by Joe Brainard
When I stop and think about what it's all about I do come up with some answers, but they don’t help very much
The Pain by Laura Kasischke
Like the human brain, which organizes
Lost and Found by Ron Padgett
Man has lost his gods.
Primitive State [excerpt] by Anselm Berrigan
Thingitation righteousness for pre-avail to drive away the mighty kraken
Another Elegy by Jericho Brown
To believe in God is to love
Living in Numbers by Claire Lee
Sunday, August 22, 2010:
Spent by Mark Doty
Late August morning I go out to cut
"I'm afraid of death" by Kathleen Ossip
I’m afraid of death
sugar is smoking by Jason Schneiderman
it’s amazing how death
Variation on a Theme by W. S. Merwin
Thank you my life long afternoon
Summer in Winter in Summer by Noah Eli Gordon
The bottom teeth of summer
Meditation 29 by Philip Pain
How mutable is every thing that here