Poems of Today

Jane Miller (1996) I love these hours alone I do                          not                                like them. Like them, I am slow...

Alison Deming Einstein didn't speak as a child waiting till a sentence formed and emerged full-blown from his head. I do the thing, he l...

Richard Wilbur (2009) Treetops are not so high Not I so low That I don't instinctively know How it would be to fly Through gaps that the...

Rita Dove I proved a theorem and the house expands: the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling, the ceiling floats away with a sigh. As...

Troy Jollimore (2009) 1. Where what I see comes to rest, at the edge of the lake, against what I think I see and, up on the bank, who I am ...

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools c...

E.B. White The spider, dropping down from twig, Unwinds a thread of her devising: A thin, premeditated rig To use in rising. And all the jou...