Robert Frost

Dust of Snow

From Essential Pleasures

John Caddy

December 2

From Morning Earth

Joseph Stroud

The Nightingales of Andalucía

From Of This World

Faith Shearin

Not Knowing

From Moving the Piano

Kristine O'Connell George

Nest Construction

From Hummingbird Nest

Joyce Sutphen

Off Line

From Naming the Stars

E.B. White

Natural History

The spider, dropping down from twig
Unwinds a thread of her devising:
A thin, premeditated rig
To use in rising.

And all the journey down through space,
In cool descent, and loyal-hearted,
She builds a ladder to the place
From which she started.

This I, gone forth, as spiders do,
In spider’s web a truth discerning,
Attach one silken strand to you
For my returning.

From Poems & Sketches of E. B. White

Catherine E. Berry

Old Garden

From Who Tells the Crocuses It's Spring?

Charles Simic

My Shoes

From New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012

Kahlil Gibran

On Children

From The Prophet

Faith Shearin

My Mother's Lost Keys

From Telling the Bees

Rebecca Perry

Open for the Strangest Adventures

From Bookshop Book

Jane Shore

Monday

From Music Minus One

Wayne Miller

Post-Elegy

From Post-:

William Kloefkorn

Mowing the Lawn for the Last Time

From A Song for Occupations 

Jeffrey McDaniel

The Quiet World

From Forgiveness Parade

William Baer

Motes

From Ploughshares, Spring 2008

Gretchen Marquette

Prologue

From May Day

May Swenson

Question

From Essential Pleasures

Frederick Morgan

Moments

From Poems New and Selected

Mary Oliver

Mockingbirds

From White Pine

Sue Ellen Thompson

Remembering My Parents' Sex Life

From Sunken Garden Poetry

Joseph Stroud

Memory: Quonset Hut, Rodger Young Village, 1947

From Of This World

Sandra M. Gilbert

Remnant

From Belongings

Charles Wright

From Native Guard 

Sandra Gilbert

Remnant

From Belongings

Carl Adamshick

Memoir

From Curses and Wishes

Jo McDougall

Married

From Satisfied with Havoc

Robert Pinsky

Samurai Song

From Essential Pleasures

Diane Ackerman

School Prayer

From I Praise My Destroyer

David Young

A Lowercase Alphabet

From The Poetry Dictionary

Pit Menousek Pinegar

Shamaal

From Sunken Garden

Stuart Dischell

The Laugh of the Thief

From Backwards Days

Brian Andreas

From Mostly True

Margaret Atwood

The Small Cabin

From Selected Poems: 1965-1975

A.R. Ammons

Small Song

From Haiku in English

John Betjeman

Late-Flowering Lust

From Collected Poems

Elizabeth Spires

Snail Revisited

From The Wave Maker

Andrea Gibson

LALALOL

From Pansy

James Valvis

Something

From The Sun, July 2016

Frederick Morgan

Irvington

From Poems New and Selected

Michael Bazzett

In Vladivostok

From You Must Remember This

Toni Watson

From Kansas City Voices, Volume 13

Faith Shearin

Sunburns

From Moving the Piano

Mary Oliver

Freshen the Flowers, She Said

From Why I Wake Early

Tom Hennen

Did I Say This Before?

From Darkness Sticks to Everything

Alberto Ríos

Sunday Dinner at Tuesday Breakfast

From A Small Story About the Sky

Hannah Sanghee Park

Strip

From The Same-Different

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

For All I Know Maybe She Was Happier...

From Endless Life

Michio Mado

A Swan

From The Animals

Hugh Ogden

Fingers

From Sunken Garden Poetry: 1992-2011