POETRY Magazine cover of April 1998 issue

April 1998

Georges Braque, "Nature Morte II," 1912.
 
  • John Haag
  • Kenneth Koch
  • Robert Wrigley
  • Tom Disch
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Spring, and the first full crop of dandelions gone
to smoke, the lawn lumpish with goldfinches,
hunched in their fluffs, fattened by seed,
alight in the wind-bared peduncular forest.
Little bells, they loop and dive, bend
the delicate birch branches down.
I would enter the sky...
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