Ron Rash

 Deep Water

From Poems

Lillian Morrison

Oh, To Be an Earthworm

From The Beauty of the Beast

Charles Rafferty

Quarry

From The Smoke of Horses

Galway Kinnell

Daybreak

From A Child's Anthology of Poetry

Charles Rafferty

Carp

From The Smoke of Horses

Richard Beban

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From Young Girl Eating A Bird.

Linda Pastan

What We Want

What we want
is never simple.
We move among the things
we thought we wanted:
a face, a room, an open book
and these things bear our names—
now they want us.
But what we want appears
in dreams, wearing disguises.
We fall past,
holding out our arms
and in the morning
our arms ache.
We don't remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us.
It is there all day
as an animal is there
under the table,
as the stars are there
even in full sun.

From 100 Essential Modern Poems By Women.

Walt Whitman

When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns
before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add,
divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured
with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

From 100 Plus American Poems

a chunk of the sun

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From The Sun, August, 2005.