Favorite Things — Poems

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Robert Bly, Looking into a Face

Lawrence Ferlinghetti: To the Oracle at Delphi

Ranier Maria Rilke: Memory

Hafiz: Some Fill With Each Good Rain

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Afternoon on a Hill

George Dillon (for Edna St. Vincent Millay):
Woman Without Fear

Mary Oliver: Wild Geese

where we are: gerald locklin

This craft of ours, sacred and bright,
Has lasted too many years to tell...
The world is lit by it without light,
But, still, a poet has yet to dwell
On the thought that there's no wisdom or hell,
No age and, perhaps no death as well.

—Anna Akhmatova 1944
translated by Lyn Coffin