Today I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the few words over and over… It feels like eating the same small, perfect grape

There is a section in my library f… and another for Irish history, a few shelves for the poetry of Ch… and in the center a row of impertu… the ones you can turn to anytime,

Tonight the moon is a cracker, with a bite out of it floating in the night, and in a week or so according to the calendar

They say you can jinx a poem if you talk about it before it is… If you let it out too early, they… your poem will fly away, and this time they are absolutely…

The neighbors’ dog will not stop b… He is barking the same high, rhyth… that he barks every time they leav… They must switch him on on their w… The neighbors’ dog will not stop b…

What scene would I want to be env… more than this one, an ordinary night at the kitchen t… floral wallpaper pressing in, white cabinets full of glass,

It could be the name of a prehisto… that roamed the Paleozoic earth, r… on its hind legs to show off its l… or some lover in a myth who is met… It means treasury, but it is just…

You are so beautiful and I am a f… to be in love with you is a theme that keeps coming up in songs and poems. There seems to be no room for vari…

It seems these poets have nothing up their ample sleeves they turn over so many cards so ea… telling us before the first line whether it is wet or dry,

I am standing on a disused iron br… that was erected in 1902, according to the iron plaque bolte… the year my mother turned one. Imagine—a mother in her infancy,

The name of the author is the firs… followed obediently by the title,… the heartbreaking conclusion, the… which suddenly becomes one you hav… never even heard of,

I knew that James Whistler was pa… but I was still surprised when I… of his mother at the Musée d’Orsa… among all the colored dots and mob… of the French Impressionists.

I imagined the atmosphere would be… shot with pristine light, not this sulphurous haze, the air ionized as before a thunde… Many have pictured a river here,

I turn around on the gravel and go back to the house for a boo… something to read at the doctor’€™… and while I am inside, running the… of inquisition along a shelf,

Before I opened you, Jiménez, it never occurred to me that day a… would continue to circle each othe… but now you have me wondering if there will also be a sun and a…