Emanuel Swedenborg | A poem by Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986
Emanuel Swedenborg The Flying Machine, sketched in his notebook, 1714 . Taller than the others, this man Walked among them,...
Poems
Possibilities | Wislawa Szymborska, 1997
Egon Schiele - Double Self-portrait with Wally, 1913I prefer movies.I prefer cats.I prefer the oaks along the Warta.I prefer Dickens...
Canto XIII | A poem by Ezra Pound, 1925
Prunus mume blossoms . Kung walked by the dynastic temple and into the cedar grove, and then out by the...
Chronos | A poem by Nicanor Parra, 1914 – 2018
Nicanor Parra, 1914 -2018 . In Santiago, Chile The days are interminably long: Several eternities in a day. Like the...
A Late Walk | A poem by Robert Frost, 1915
Kōgyo Tsukioka (1869-1927) . When I go up through the mowing field, The headless aftermath, Smooth-laid like thatch with the...
For Mac | A poem by Jack Spicer, 1925-1965
Max Dupain, Starfish in Rockpool, Toowoon Bay, 1986 . A dead starfish on a beach He has five branches Representing...
Briar Rose [Sleeping Beauty] | Anne Sexton, 1928-1974
Konstantin Somov, Sleeping Young Woman, 1922 . Consider a girl who keeps slipping off, arms limp as old carrots, into...
Love Song | William Carlos Williams, 1912–22
Emil Nolde (1867 - 1956), Green Landscape with Red Cloud . What have I to say to you When we...
The Garden | A poem by Jacques Prévert, 1900-1977
Paris, 1950′s . Millions and millions of years Would still not give me half enough time To describe That tiny...
The Bloodless Sportsman | A poem by Sam Walter Foss, 1897
Julianna Swaney, A gentleman and his prized ferns, 2019 . I go a-gunning, but take no gun; I fish without...