Panjandrum Poetry Series: Father

Father

Not even a prayer in this wind of hollow and change,
Will down my Father's house or bring stillness to the trees,
The hands that held my hands will not build my church,
Or parish the sun in a gold gibbous case.

That heart outside my heart--a tried, winded, simple space
Where love lived low and galed inside black irises.
Stern, taciturn, and taller than pines; I stood
at one knee and waited for the oak to bend.

Unable to stand through the long blue day,
kneeling in wrested piety, I see the ignoble weep,
And learning that men are not as tall as these,
Whispering to the wind, I bring stillness to the trees.

                                       ~Marylou Canevari

The Vitual Anthology Installment Eleven

T. S. Eliot "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"
"Rhapsody on a Windy Night"

William Butler Yeats "A Coat"
"A Coat""

Charles Baudelaire "The Stranger"
"The Stranger"

William Ernest Henley "Invictus"
"Invictus"

Robert Frost "Never Again Would Bird's Song Be the Same"
"Never Again Would Bird's Song Be the Same"

Panjandrum Poetry Series: Poem, April, Time and Light

Poem, April, Time and Light
(for Lou)

We know, as lovers, the sun has many wings
and nowhere is it diving like the sea,
in that brand the tide has all the things
return has made a fire of you and me

and on either side of us there may be Ages
that must have gods and reasons like cyclones
but truest of a loving, private language
I have no light or power of my own

nor want any, nor to let go the strings
of any touch to pull the world to me
and night beyond the door is everything
to hold and be the love you want to be,

so close I feel the time entire
when any moment I reach out of the fire.

~William Frank

The Vitual Anthology Installment Ten

Sylvia Plath "The Moon and the Yew Tree"
"The Moon and the Yew Tree"


Robert Frost "Stopping by a Woods On a Snowy Evening"
"Stopping by a Woods On a Snowy Evening"

William Empson "The Teasers"
"The Teasers"

Anthony Hecht "Claire de Lune"
"Claire de Lune"

Emily Dickinson "The Brain is Wider than the Sky"
"The Brain is Wider than the Sky"

Virtual Anthology Installment 9

E. E. Cummings "my father moved through dooms of love"
"my father moved through dooms of love"

Gerard Manley Hopkins "God's Grandeur"
"God's Grandeur"

Dylan Thomas "The Force That Through The Green Fuse"
"The Force That Through The Green Fuse"

Robert Frost "Nothing Gold Can Stay"
"Nothing Gold Can Stay"

W. H. Auden "Their Lonely Betters"
"Their Lonely Betters"

The Vitual Anthology Installment Eight

Carl Sandburg, "Grass"
"Grass"

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam A.H.H."
"In Memoriam A.H.H."

Anthony Hecht, "Dover Bitch"
"Dover Bitch"

Dylan Thomas, "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"
"And Death Shall Have No Dominion"

David Gascoyne, "Spring MCMXL"
"Spring MCMXL"

The Virtual Anthology Installment Seven

To begin, one of the finest introductions to a book ever committed:
Charles Baudelaire's "To the Reader"
"To the Reader"

Daryl Hine "Apollonian Epiphany"
"Apollonian Epiphany"

Sylvia Plath "Blackberrying"
"Blackberrying"

Robert Frost "Fire and Ice"
"Fire and Ice"

William Butler Yeats "On being asked for a War Poem"
" ON BEING ASKED FOR A WAR POEM"