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Cabin

© Anne Waldman

eviction people arrive to haunt me
with descriptions of summer’s wildflowers
how they are carpet of fierce colors

Canary

© Rita Dove

for Michael S. Harper
Billie Holiday’s burned voice
had as many shadows as lights,
a mournful candelabra against a sleek piano,
the gardenia her signature under that ruined face.

Caedmon

© Denise Levertov

All others talked as if

talk were a dance.

Chomei at Toyama

© Ted Hughes

Swirl sleeping in the waterfall!
On motionless pools scum appearing
disappearing!

Constantinople

© Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Greiv'd at a view which strikes vpon my Mind
The short liv'd Vanity of Human kind
In Gaudy Objects I indulge my Sight,
And turn where Eastern Pomp gives gay delight.

Canicule Macaronique

© John Fuller

Heureux ceux qui ont la clim—Corse-Matin (6.8.94)
Heureux ceux qui ont la clim
Pendant la grande canicule.
Heureux those whose culs are cool.
Heureuse her and heureux him.

Catch

© Langston Hughes

Being a fisher boy,
He’d found a fish
To carry—
Half fish,
Half girl
To marry.

Connubial

© Stephen Dunn

Because with alarming accuracy
she’d been identifying patterns
I was unaware of—this tic, that
tendency, like the way I’ve mastered
the language of intimacy
in order to conceal how I felt—

Come slowly – Eden! (205)

© Emily Dickinson

Come slowly – Eden!
Lips unused to Thee –
Bashful – sip thy Jessamines –
As the fainting Bee –

Cheerios

© Billy Collins

One bright morning in a restaurant in Chicago
as I waited for my eggs and toast,
I opened the Tribune only to discover
that I was the same age as Cheerios.