Pockets

Two Countries by Naomi Shihab Nye Skin remembers how long the years grow

Broadway by Mark Doty Under Grand Central's tattered vault

Inventing Father In Las Vegas by Lynn Emanuel If I could see nothing but the smoke

Shirt by Robert Pinsky The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams,

Chaplinesque by Hart Crane We make our meek adjustments,

Gospel by Philip Levine The new grass rising in the hills,

At the Public Market Museum: Charleston, South Carolina by Jane Kenyon A volunteer, a Daughter of the Confederacy,

Go Greyhound by Bob Hicok A few hours after Des Moines

At the Playground, Singing for Psychiatric Outpatients by Peter Everwine The bright-faced children have gone home,

A Sock Is a Pocket for Your Toes [excerpt] by Elizabeth Garton Scanlon A sock is a pocket for your toes,

Slow Waltz Through Inflatable Landscape by Christian Hawkey At the time of his seeing a hole opened

Blankets of Bark by Sherwin Bitsui Point north, north where they walk

Regarding Chainsaws by Hayden Carruth The first chainsaw I owned was years ago

Pockets by Howard Nemerov Are generally over or around