Joseph Stroud

The Potato

From Country of Light

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

High School Picture Re-take Day

From Seriously Funny

Shel Silverstein

Snap!

From A Light in the Attic

Mary Oliver

Prose Poem: Are You Okay?

From Long Life

George Bilgere

Sparrow

From The White Museum

Ansel Elkins

Goat Man

From Blue Yodel

Randall Jarrell

The Mockingbird

From On Wings of Song

Shel Silverstein

Crowded Tub

From A Light in the Attic

Michael Ryan

Very Hot Day

From Seriously Funny

Nickole Brown

For Our Grandmothers

From Fanny Says

David Hernandez

We Would Never Sleep

From The Sun

George Bilgere

Doggy Dip

From The White Museum

Mary Oliver

Poem: The Morning Walk

From Long Life

Janice Harrington

Balance

From: The Hands of Strangers: Poems from the Nursing Home 

Stuart Dischell

Where Wires Tangle

From Backwards Days

Shel Silverstein

Ations

From A Light in the Attic

Hugh Martin

Pictures of the War

From The Stick Soldiers

Kristine O'Connell George

Meadow

From The Great Frog Race

Natasha Trethewey

Pilgrimage

From Native Guard

Alison Luterman

Massage Therapist

From See How We Almost Fly

Mary Oliver

Porcupine 

From White Pine

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Magnolia Tree in Kansas

From Animals in the House

Sean Bishop

Reading Dante in the ICU

From The Night We're Not Sleeping In

Ansel Elkins

Crying Wolf

From Blue Yodel

George Bilgere

Scorcher

From Imperial

Mari L'Esperance

Stroke

From The Darkened Temple

Natasha Trethewey

Graveyard Blues

From Native Guard

Olivia Marie Stiffler

Shelter

From Otherwise, we are safe

Sandra M. Gilbert

Landscape: In the Forest

From The Poets' Grimm

Raymond Carver

Suspenders

From A New Path to the Waterfall 

David Wagoner

Into the Nameless Places

From In Broken Country

Ansel Elkins

The Girl with Antlers

From Blue Yodel

George Bilgere

As Requested

From Imperial

Mary Oliver

The Gesture

From White Pine

Mari L'Esperance

In the Valley of the Kings

From The Darkened Temple

Natasha Trethewey

Theories of Time and Space

From Native Guard

Joseph Hutchison

Grandma 

From House of Mirrors

Joel Dias-Porter

Turning the Tables

From The BreakBeat Poets

Kristine O'Connell George

Bud

From Old Elm Speaks

Jorge Carrera Andrade

What the Snail is

From Micrograms

Ansel Elkins

Adventures of the Double-Headed Girl

From Blue Yodel

George Bilgere

Yard Sale

From Imperial

William Wordsworth

'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'

From Wordsworth

Kahlil Gibran

On Children

From The Prophet

Ted Kooser

Dead Bat

From Splitting an Order

David Wagoner

The Death of the Moon

From In Broken Country

Sean Bishop

Adam Home from the Wars

From The Night We're Not Sleeping In

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

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From In Quiet Light

Kristine O'Connell George

Polliwogs

From The Great Frog Race

Joseph Stroud

Homage to the Black Walnut in Downtown Santa Cruz

From Of This World