Every Good Morning

You Can Listen Here Prologue: No bag, no camera, a powerful, unfamiliar dog on a leash so the wings, easily two feet across, remained in the grass. Still connected by ligaments, their breadth showed that they had once belonged to an adult. A white gash of spine lingered inside a portion of its entrails now dry from the full measure of the morning’s sun. This the remains of a crow attacked and eaten by an owl or hawk. […]

You Can Listen Here Poets express their impressions of the world through voice, the sound of the poem spoken inside the readers’ imaginations and on their tongues.The individual voice is distinctive, authoritative, convincing. One cannot mistake poems by Seamus Heaney for Elizabeth Bishop’s , Robert Frost’s for Robert Lowell’s , Wallace Steven’s for Wilfred Owen’s . Their pitch and register, rhythms and intonations, catches and breaks, their melodies — all these bear the mark of the individual poet. Mark Doty tells us that “Poetry’s work is to make […]