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Dear Teacher
Springtime In The Small Mammal House
Ever Wondered?
For When You Need To Go – It’s OK.
Where I Live.
Soft rain.
Letter To You
No. 19 Cloud
No. 18 Filthy
No. 17 Graceful
No. 16 Fat
Prayer
9 – Screech
8 – Crooked
7 – Shy
6 – Sword
Long
Underwater
Poison
Divided
Swift
Billy Collins – Introduction to Poetry
Vera Pavlova – The Song of Songs.
Welcome Fall 2017
Mary Oliver – from the Thirst
Bukowski – Lost
When You Fall
Ellen Bass – The World Has Need of You
Mary Oliver – The Poet with His Face in His Hands
Matthew Dickman – Grief
Love Letter – Back from BM 2017
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – [The world is a beautiful place]
Letter To James Baldwin on his Birthday
How To Sew A Button
Pablo Neruda Ode – To Clothes
Emily Dickinson – I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Robert Pinsky – Samurai Song
Naomi Shihab Nye – Gate A-4
Nazim Hikmet – Hiroshima Child
Nikki Giovanni – Resignation
Leonard Cohen – Two went to sleep
Mark Strand – The Remains
Cemal Sureya – Now Sweetheart
Elizabeth Bishop – One Art
Mary Oliver – NOT ANYONE WHO SAYS
Nick Lantz – How to Dance When You Do Not Know How to Dance
Rilke – Book of Hours, I 2
Kahlil Gibran – On Marriage
Nazim Hikmet – Great Humanity
Nick Lantz – How to Help a Ghost
David Wagoner – Lost
Rumi – Slave of the Moon
Zenrin-kushū.
Jalal al-Din Rumi – What Was Told, That
Charles Bukowski – some people
Li Po – Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
Frank O’Hara – Meditations in an Emergency
E.E Cummings – who knows if the moon’s a balloon
Rainer Maria Rilke – [Again and again]
Rilke – [How far from us everything is, and long gone]
Pablo Neruda – Body of a Woman
Richard Brautigan – Your Catfish Friend
Frank O’Hara – St. Paul and All That
Omar Khayyám – wilderness is paradise now
Ryokan – Everything is in the Heart
Kobayashi Issa – Snail
Kabir – Slowly
Nâzım Hikmet – Because of you
Wendell Berry – Real Work
Mushrooms of Loneliness & What To Do With Them.
Mary Oliver – In Blackwater Woods
Wet Spring
Adrienne Rich – Twenty One Love Poems No. 2
Waking Up In a Lover’s Bed Alone
Perfect Weather To Eat Clouds
Lucille Clifton – poem in praise of menstruation
Wild Poet of My House
William Carlos Williams – Danse Russe
Derek Walcott – Love After Love – Adieu Derek
EEC – ‘pity this busy monster, manunkind’
Mary Oliver – Box Full Of Darkness
Tender Morning
Maya Angelou – Equality – International Women’s Day.
They Know
The Samurai Cat
Ellen Bass – Relax
Rumi – The New Rule
Wendy Cope – After The Lunch
Charles Bukowski – The Laughing Heart
Margaret Atwood – In Love with Raymond Chandler
Mary Oliver – The Sunflowers
From Sonnet to Orpheus – Rilke
Langston Hughes – The Dream Keeper
[Tall grass, dream boat, advice]
Naomi Shihab Nye – 300 Goats
Where Loneliness Lives
Walt Whitman – SONGS OF INSURRECTION. Number 1
Langston Hughes – Let America Be America Again
Lorca – Floating Bridges
William Stafford – Yes
Kenneth Koch – To You
Pablo Neruda – XVII (I do not love you)
This is how I would speak to you
Will Rogers – If You Feel Adrift in Time
A letter to Rainer Maria Rilke 9 days before his death.
Vladimir Holan – Meeting in a Lift
Not Knowing You
W.C. Williams – This is just to say
Leonard Cohen – The book of longing
Mary Oliver – Two Kinds of Deliverance (P$ Bday)
Bukowski – in other words
Rilke – Lament
[Poem, Colors, Birth]
Late November
From Your Eyes
Basquiat and Sexy Food
Pablo Neruda – Your Feet
William Stafford – Assurance
Lawrence Ferlinghetti The World Is A -Beautiful Place [Adieu L.Cohen]
Miller Williams + Bukowski
Becoming A Person
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – [Heaven was only half as far that night]
Allen Ginsberg – Footnote to Howl
Naomi Shihab Nye – Kindness
Sylvia Plath – You’re
Mary Oliver – Some Questions You Might Ask
Rumi – [God forbid I’d compare the moon to your face]
Rilke – Autumn Day
Friend
Wreck
Surprise
Box
Tired
Dozen
Slow
Little
Big
Jane Hirshfield – The Promise
Squeeze
Mary Oliver – Where Does the Dance Begin, Where Does It End?
Flight
Frank Ormsby – Moving In
Escape
Relax
Tree
Langston Hughes – Genius Child
Scared
Mark Strand – Not Dying
Walt Whitman – O You Whom I Often and Silently Come
Worried

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