Poem
By Frank X Walker
Indian summer Saturday mornings
meant project door screens sat open
waiting for the vegetable truck
No new moons or first frosts
just the horn on an old flatbed
trumpeting the harvest
No almanac announcement, no ads
just a short black farmer in overalls
and mud-caked boots
Grandmothers who still clicked
their tongues, who called up the sound…
meant project door screens sat open
waiting for the vegetable truck
No new moons or first frosts
just the horn on an old flatbed
trumpeting the harvest
No almanac announcement, no ads
just a short black farmer in overalls
and mud-caked boots
Grandmothers who still clicked
their tongues, who called up the sound…
Poem
By Ricardo Reis
Translated By Margaret Jull Costa & Patricio Ferrari
I love what I see because one day
I will cease to see it.
And simply because it is.
In this placid interval…
I will cease to see it.
And simply because it is.
In this placid interval…
Poem
By Alberto Ríos
The bright night sky,
Doorway to everything—
In all that black
All those stars:
Salt.
Pinpricks.
…
Doorway to everything—
In all that black
All those stars:
Salt.
Pinpricks.
…
Poem
By Suzanne Matson
Only the wrinkle
of a disappearing squirrel
breaks the snow stillness.
The walker, swathed in wool…
of a disappearing squirrel
breaks the snow stillness.
The walker, swathed in wool…
Poem
By Frank X Walker
The sound of a race is music but like nothing with
strings or words. You’d need a hundred men with
hammers and women stepping Juba but with both
hands making the body a drum like in “Hambone.”
Closest thing to it I can imagine would be a whole army
marching in step and singing something like
“The Colored Volunteer” while you …
strings or words. You’d need a hundred men with
hammers and women stepping Juba but with both
hands making the body a drum like in “Hambone.”
Closest thing to it I can imagine would be a whole army
marching in step and singing something like
“The Colored Volunteer” while you …
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