Apr 14 2011
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April 14, 2011: Happiness (3), Jean Valentine
Happiness (3)
Jean Valentine
The moment you turned to me on W. 4th St.
Your gentleness to me
The hard winter grass here under my shoes
The frost
I knelt in the frost to your parents
The warm
light on the right hand side of your face
The light on the Buddha’s eyelids
I knelt to my parents
Their suffering How
much sleep there was in sleep How no
suffering is lost
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On this day in…
2010: When I Think, Jeanne Marie Beaumont
2009: The Poem, Franz Wright
2008: Morning Poem, Robin Becker
2007: Supple Cord, Naomi Shihab Nye
2006: Wish For a Young Wife, Theodore Roethke
2005: The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy, Jeffrey McDaniel
