Poem-a-Day

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Poem-a-day

^{translated from the Ojibwe by the author}

At the threshold
of melancholy
is a voice barely heard

a light wrapped in fog
and a piece of steel
longing for flint.

Strike it.

Gashkikanokaaning
apii gashkenindaman
agaawaa bapoweyan

waateg gashkaabateg
manidoo-biiwaabik
misawenimaad biiwaanan.

Zisikinebidoon.

Title	Author	Date
Robert Harms Paints the Surface of Little Fresh Pond	Mark Doty	01/11/2011
Pericardium	Joanna Klink	01/10/2011
Spellbound	Emily Brontë	01/09/2011
Vertical	Linda Pastan	01/07/2011
Six Persimmons	Shin Yu Pai	01/06/2011
My Heart	Kim Addonizio	01/05/2011
From “Mesongs”	Kamau Brathwaite	01/04/2011
I Can Afford Neither the Rain	Holly Iglesias	01/03/2011
To Think of Time	Walt Whitman	01/02/2011
The Thread of Life	Christina Rossetti	01/01/2011