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Landscapes & Pastorals

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  • Poem
    By Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
    1 Plants and rocks lay under night sky; ground is a subject of sky; the relation's a force.
    I combine…
  • Poem
    By Hershman John
    Last Easter, I gave my mother-in-law a large, brown, simple ceramic
                Navajo water pot, shiny with pine…
  • Poem
    By Meredith Stricker
    in the DMZ ravines north of the Kaesong wastes edging
    south of the perfect ruler’s pink and prisoned…
  • Poem
    By Carolyn Forché
    These are your stones, assembled in matchbox and tin,
    collected from roadside, culvert, and viaduct,
    battlefield…
  • Poem
    By Timothy Donnelly
    And though we had fed long and well at the table
      the talk always turned to whether to go on
    regardless…
  • Poem
    By Andrew Frisardi
                                          PRIMEAt dawn, the shapes of cypresses in fog
    Were fingers pointing up from graves, as if what's born…
  • Poem
    By Don Domanski
    *
    clouds creak in the sky
    herons creak in the sky. 
    *
    the dark approaches itself
    from all sides once again…
  • Poem
    By Peter O’Leary
    In a wind
    the lake's scissoring surface

    and the Sun's vernal glare
    the gulls cut to curls
    in their turns…
  • Poem
    By James Joyce
    He travels after a winter sun,
    Urging the cattle along a cold red road,
    Calling to them, a voice they …
  • Poem
    By William Olsen
    My father bought us this trip, he'd taken it, he wanted to give us an experience,
    our eyes to see for…
  • Poem
    By Tilsa Otta
    I saw a herd of toads in the gully of my reflection
    Staring at each other arguing over insects 
    It wasn…
  • Poem
    By Tilsa Otta
    Vi una manada de sapos mirándose entre ellos
    Discutiendo insectos en el cauce de mi reflejo
    No fue rom…
  • Poem
    By Bertrand N. O. Walker
    Lonely, open, vast and free,
    The dark'ning desert lies;
    The wind sweeps o'er it fiercely,
    And the yellow…
  • Poem
    By Stephen Ratcliffe
    light coming into fog against invisible
    top of ridge, blue jay on redwood fence
    in foreground, sound…
  • Poem
    By Cole Swensen
    a river slips
                            in shifting leaves
    sifting. a river sifts
                            and falls to pieces
    in which not seen
                            (this …
  • Poem
    By Emily Brontë
    O transient voyager of heaven!
    ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ O silent sign of winter skies!
    What adverse wind thy sail has driven…
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