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ABLEEGUMOOCH, Rabbit. "The Poetry of Ordinary Time."  
ACHEBE, Chinua. "Mother in a Refugee Camp."   
ACKERMAN, Diane. "School Prayer." 
ADCOCK, Betty. "January."
AKHMATOVA, Anna. "Everything is Plundered, Betrayed, Sold."   
ALBÁNEZ, Francisco. "The One Who Is at Home." 
ALEXANDER, Elizabeth. "Praise Song for the Day."
ALIESAN, Jody. "Winter Solstice."   
ALLEN, Dick. "You May Leave a Memory, or You Can Be Feted by Crows."     
ALVAREZ, Nina.  "If You Could Be Soft."
AMMONS, A. R. "Still," "Eyesight."
AMICHAI, Yehuda. "The Place Where We Are Right," "I, May I Rest in Peace."
ANDRADE, Carlos Drummond de. "In the Middle of the Road."  
ANDREWS, Ginger. "Down on My Knees."   
ANGELOU, Maya. "A Brave and Startling Truth," "Love's Exquisite Freedom."     
ANNUCCI, Marilyn. "D."   
ANONYMOUS. 

• "Samurai Song, 14th Century," Untitled ["When the wind blows"], "Song for Going to the Water" [Cherokee].   

ARNOLD, Craig. "Meditation on a Grapefruit," "Very Large Moth."   
ATTIE, Michael. "Mindful Loitering."   
ATWOOD, Margaret. "The Moment." 
AULD, Susan B. "Practicing the Art of Zen," "Radishes."   
AYOT, William. "Anyone Can Sing."   
AYRES, Elizabeth. "The Road of Unforgetting."   
BACA, Jimmy Santiago. "This Day," "I Am Offering This Poem."   
BAGGETT, Rebecca. "Testimony."    
BAKER, David. "Heaven."   
BALBO, Ned. "Fire Victim."  
BALISLE, Mike. Untitled ["In moonlight"].     
BALISTRERI, Mary Jo. "All That Is Left to Say." 
BALLA, Camille A. "Breaking Through," "The Poet and His Craft."   
BARBER, David. "Corn Maze."   
BARNEY, Anne. "Another Moment."   
BARRETT, Tom. "What's in the Temple?," "Empty Mind."    
BARROWS, Anita. "Lessons from Darkness," "Questo Muro."   
BASS, Ellen.  

• "The Thing Is," "If You Knew," "Pleasantville, New Jersey, 1955," "The World Has Need of You," "Remodeling the Bathroom," "And What if I Spoke of Despair," "Pray for Peace."

BENEDETTI, Mario. "Don't Give Up."   

BERRY, James. "Benediction."    
BERRY, Thomas. "An Appalachian Wedding."   
BERRY, Wendell.  

• "The Watchers," "To Know the Dark," "The Vacation," "I Dream of a Quiet Man," "Sabbaths 2001, VIII," "October 10," "How to Be a Poet," "I" ["No, no, there is no going back"], "Traveling at Home," "Enriching the Earth," "1996, V" ["Some Sunday afternoon, it may be"], "A Purification," "The Peace of Wild Things," "VI: Sabbaths 2001" ["Sit and be still"], "The Sorrel Filly," "The Want of Peace," "Sabbaths 1999, VII," "2007, VI" ["It is hard to have hope"].  

BINGHAM, Anne Alexander. "It is Enough." 
BIRON, Dale. "Gratefulness." 

BLANCO, Richard. "One Today."
BLIUMIS-DUNN, Sally. "Mianus River Gorge."   
BLOCH, Chana. "The Joins."  
BLUM, Etta. "I Am the Tree."    
BLUMENTHAL, Michael. "A Man Lost by a River," "Be Kind."    
BLY, Robert.  

• "Watering the Horse," "Driving Toward the Lac Qui Parle River," "Gratitude to Old Teachers," "People Like Us," "The Third Body," "Climbing into Bed," "Wanting Sumptuous Heavens."  

BOLAND, Eavan. "This Moment," "Patchwork."    
BOOTH, Philip. "How to See Deer," "Talk about Walking," "So."
BORGES, Carole Ann. "Light."  
BOSS, Todd. "This Morning in a Morning Voice," "To a Wild Rose."
BRADY, Richard. "This Freedom."  
BRANTINGHAM, John. "Putting in a Window," "The Green of Sunset."
BRECHT, Bertolt. "Everything Changes."  
BREHM, John. "Landscape Survey."
BROOKS, Gwendolyn.  

• "Speech to the Young, Speech to the Progress-Toward (Among them Nora and Henry III)."  

BROUGHTON, James.  

• "This is It," "Take the Whole Kit," "Here's to It," "Not dawdling," "If you hanker," "Easter Exultet."

BROWN, Harriet. "After a Miscarriage."   
BROWN, Jim. "Summer Solstice 2006."   
BROWN, Judy Sorum. "Wooden Boats," "Fire," "Trough."
BROWNE, Susan. "Buddha's Dogs."
BROWNING, Leah.  

• "Any Day Now," "More than 1,000 Dead Birds Fall from the Sky in Arkansas."  

BUCKMASTER, Linda. "Flowering." 

BUDBILL, David. 

• "Winter: Tonight: Sunset," "Tomorrow," "The Three Goals," "Sometimes," "Into the Winter Woods," "The Sixth of January," "The Ubiquitous Day Lily of July," "What We Need," "This Morning."    

BUKOWSKI, Charles. 

• "a song with no end," "the laughing heart," "my cats," "helping the old."   

BUSON, Yosa. Untitled ["Ah, what a pleasure"].  
BUSSE, Sarah. "Evening Walk, Mid-March." 
BUTCHER, Grace. "Learning from Trees."  
CADWALLADER-STAUB, Julie. "Blackbirds," "Midlife," "Longing."  
CAEIRO, Alberto (Fernando Pessoa). "The Herdsman," "Discontinuous Poems."  
CAMIRE, Dennis. "Encounter with Roofer."  
CANNON, Moya. "Introductions."   
CARLEY, Burton D. "September Meditation."  
CARLSEN, Ionna. "Over and Over Tune." 
CARLSON, Elizabeth. "Imperfection." 
CARLSON, Patricia Campbell. "Vessel." 
CARPATHIOS, Neil. "No More Same Old Silly Love Songs."
CARROLL, Abigail. "In Gratitude." 
CARRUTH, Hayden. "Ecstasy."   
CARTER, Jared. "Cutting Glass," "Geodes." 
CARVER, Raymond.  

• "At Least," "Happiness," "The Cobweb," "Late Fragment," "Rain."     

CAVAFY, C. P. "Ithaka."    
CENTOLELLA, Thomas. "Splendor."   
CHANT, Osage. "Planting Chant."  
CHAPPELL, Grace Hughes. "Build Your House."  
CHIMAKO, Tada. "Shade."  
CHIVERS, Mary. "Late August."    
CHULA, Margaret. "Afterimage," [A selection of tanka].   
CLIFTON, Lucille. "Blessing the Boats." 
COCKRELL, Doug. "Quiet Counsel."
COHEN, Andrea. "Cherries."  
COHEN, Esther. "Can I Call You Back?"  
COLBURN, Don. "There." 
COLE-DAI, Phyllis (project curator). "On How to Pick and Eat Poems."  
COLLINS, Billy. 

• "Shoveling Snow with the Buddha," "Japan," "In the Moment," "Picnic, Lightning," "As If to Demonstrate an Eclipse," "The First Night," "Aimless Love," "Directions," "This Much I Do Remember."        

COOLIDGE, Susan (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey). "New Every Morning."   
COOKSHAW, Marlene. "Over the Shoulder."   
CONNORS, Ginny Lowe. "A Husband's Refuge," "Hosanna."   
COPE, Michael. "Tea Ceremony."   
COPE, Wendy. "New Season," "The Orange."    
CORDING, Robert. "Peregrine Falcon, New York City."   
CORWIN, Nina. "What Morning Looks Like."    
CRANE, Stephen. "XXXV [A Man Saw a Ball of Gold in the Sky]." 
CRAPSEY, Adelaide. "November Night."   
CREELEY, Robert. "Place to Be."   
CROOKER, Barbara.  

• "Hope," "Sometimes, I Am Startled Out of Myself," "All That Is Glorious Around Us," "Praise Song," "Ordinary Life," "March," "Walking with Jesus," "Some October," "Plentitude," "Rufous-Sided Towhee," "In the Middle," "It's Monday Morning," "Solstice."          

CROWSON, Sharron. "Prayer for Another Sunday."
CROZIER, Lorna. "A Summer's Singing."  
CUMMINGS, e.e. "Seeker of Truth," "let it go—the," "i am a little church."    
DADELSEN, Jean-Paul de. "Exercise for the Evening."   
D'ALESSIO, Alice. "Left Behind."   
DALTON, Roque. "Like You."   
DANIEL, John. "A Prayer Among Friends."  
DARWISH, Mahmoud. "Think of Others."   
DAVIES, Mary Carolyn. "If I Had Known."
DAVIS, Todd. "The Sound of Sunlight."  
DE BURGOS, Julia. "I Was My Own Route" ("Yo Misma Fui Mi Ruta").   
DED, Lal. 

• Untitled ["I Was Passionate"], Untitled ["To learn the scriptures is easy"].   
  

DENNIS, Carl. "String Quartet," "Still Life," "Unfolding."  
DETHLEFSEN, Bruce. "1950," "White Stallions."     
DICKINSON, Emily. 

• "#668" ["Nature" Is What We See], "#1309" ["The Infinite a sudden Guest"], "#690" ["Forever — is composed of Nows — "], "#875" ["I stepped from plank to plank"].    

DIERKING, Kirsten.  

• "In the Produce Aisle," "Sailing on Lake Superior," "Shoveling Snow," "The Ordinary."  

DIOP, Birago. "Sighs."   
DOALLAS, Maureen E. [Poem not archived at poet's request.]  
DOBYNS, Stephen. "Waking."  
DODD, Wayne. "Of Rain and Air."  
DOLAN, Liz Rose. "The Healer."  
DOLCH, Jessie. "The Priest Writes His Desire." 
DONALDSON, Julia. "I Opened a Book."    
DOOM, Alixa. "Cedarkin."     
DORFF, Francis, O. Praem. "Lightening the Load." 
DOSHI, Toshani. "The Immigrant's Song."    
DOTY, Mark. "Golden Retrievals."   
DOVE, Rita. "Testimonial," "Dawn Revisited," "Flirtation." 
DOWD, Juditha. "Conversing with an Orange."   
DUFFY, Carol Ann. "Prayer."   
DUNN, Stephen. "Choosing to Think of It," "The Sacred," "Sweetness."      
EADY, Cornelius. "A Small Moment."  
ECKHART, Meister. "Love Does That," "When I Was the Forest."      
EHRMANN, Max. "A Prayer."  
ELIOT, T. S. Excerpt from The Cocktail Party.   
EMRE, Yunus. Untitled ["A Single Word Can Brighten the Face"].  
ERDRICH, Louise.  

• "Spring Evening on Blind Mountain," "Advice to Myself," "Grief."   
  

ERICKSON, Terri Kirby. "Thread Count."
ESCOUBAS, Michael. "Towel and Basin."   
ESPAILLAT, Rhina. "Guidelines." 
EVANS, David Allan. "Turning 70," "Waking Up."
EVERWINE, Peter. "Rain."   
FAULDS, Danna. "Allow," "Walk Slowly."    
FARGNOLI, Patricia. "Winter Grace."   
FEHRENBACHER, Julia. 

• "What I've Learned from the Dark," "Hold Out Your Hand," "Recipe for Falling in Love."

FELDMAN, Irving. "How Wonderful."  
FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence. 

• "# 46," "Recipe for Happiness in Khabarovsk or Anyplace."   

FIELD, Edward. "A Journey."   
FLEURY, Amy. "Ablution."
FLYNN, John. "New Work."   
FLYNN, Rachel Contreni. "The Yellow Bowl."
FOLEY, Laura Davies. "The Offering," "The Giving Tree," "Sophie," "To See It."    
FOOTE, Robert S. "An Interruption."   
FORHAN, Chris. "Joy."  
FOSTER, Linda Nemec. "Eliminating the Horizon," "Climbing Cherry Trees." 
FOX, John. "When Someone Deeply Listens to You."   
FRANCIS of Assisi. "Wring Out My Clothes."   
FRANCIS, Robert. "Summons." 
FRIEND, Robert. "The Last Year." 
FROST, Robert. "A Time to Talk," "October," "Dust of Snow."    
FULLER, John. "The Calling."   
GALLAGHER, Tess.  

• "Choices," "The Hug," "Walking Meditation with Thich Nhat Hanh."   

GARCIA, Albert. "Ice," "August Morning."
GARCIA, Arnoldo. "A Meditation on Breath."
GENTRY, Jane. "On a Perfect Day."    
GERBER, Dan. "Advice," "On My Seventieth Birthday."   
GIBRAN, Kahlil. "On Pain."  
GIBSON, Dobby. 

• "Upon Discovering My Entire Solution to the Attainment of Immortality Erased from the Blackboard Except the Word `Save'."

GIBSON, Margaret. "Heaven." 
GILBERT, Sarah. "Tracks."   
GIOIA, Dana. "California Hills in August," "Entrance," "Words."   
GIOVANNI, Nikki. "Winter Poem."   
GLASSMEYER, Susan. "I Tell You."
GLENDAY, John. "Concerning the Atoms of the Soul."  
GLÜCK, Louise. "Twilight."
GONZÁLEZ, Rafael Jesús. "Grace."  
GOODRICH, Charles. "Evening Star."  
GRAY, Mary. "When I Am Wise."   
GREENE, Richard. "First Notes."
GREENFIELD, Eloise. "In the Land of Words."   
GREGG, Cindy. "Monday," "Thoughtful Voyeur: Woman and Cantaloupe."
GREGG, Linda. "Being," "A Dark Thing Inside the Day."  
GROSSMAN, Dorothea. "I Have to Tell You."
HAALAND, Tami. "A Colander of Barley." 
HAFIZ. 

• "The Sun in Drag," "Today," "Every Movement," "What Happens," "Now Is the Time."        

HALL, Sidney, Jr. "Something about the Wind."  
HALLIDAY, Mark. "Summer Planning."   
HAMMAD, Suheir. "talisman."   
HANH, Thich Nhat. "For Warmth," "The Good News," "Walking Meditation."     
HANZLICEK, C. G. "Mystery."    
HARDIE, Kerry. "What's Left," "May." 
HARER, Katharine. "How to Hope." 
HARJO, Joy. 

• "Eagle Poem," "Perhaps the World Ends Here," "Remember," "Ah, Ah," "Emergence."   

HARNDEN, Philip. "Peter Matthiessen on Crystal Mountain." 
HARRISON, Jeffrey. "Enough." "Interval," "To a Snake."     
HARRISON, Jim.  

• Untitled ["Sometimes all it takes"] (with Ted Kooser), "Becoming."  

HARRISON, Leslie. "Tea."    
HART, Kevin. "Snow," "The Gift."   
HARTH, Willow. Untitled ["This poem is not meant for you"].   
HARTLEY, Mark. "Be Still."    
HAUGE, Olav. "This Is the Dream."  
HEANEY, Seamus. 

• "Had I Not Been Awake," "Postscript," "Chorus from The Cure at Troy." 

HEDLEY, Gil. "Your Body Is a Holy Book."  
HENNEN, Tom. 

• "In the Late Season," "The Life of a Day," "Report from the West," "Spring Follows Winter Once More," "From a Country Overlooked," "Love for Other Things," "Looking for the Differences."     

HENNING, Dianna MacKinnon.  

• "Set Free," "When the hummingbird's beak caught in the window screen,".  

HERBERT, Zbigniew. "The Pebble." 
HERON, Judith. "Into this foggy morning comes a song," "Simple Instructions."   
HESS, Ronnie. "Birthday Party."  
HESSE, Hermann. "Sometimes."    
HEY, Phil. "Spring forward, fall back."  
HIGGINS, Anne. "Cherry Tomatoes," "Tribute Poem."  
HILBERT, Donna. "Gravity," "Credo," "In Plowboy's Produce Market."    
HIRSCH, Edward.  

• "The Widening Sky," "Wild Gratitude," "I Am Going to Start Living Like a Mystic," "Fall."   

HIRSHFIELD, Jane. 

• "Meeting the Light Completely," "Burlap Sack," "Standing Deer," "The Task," "A Room," "The Promise," "The Weighing," "My Weather," "Respite," "The Kingdom," "Da Capo," "Bees," "Tree," "A Day Comes," "Rebus."  

HOAGLAND, Tony. "The Word."
HOFF, Benjamin. "Piglet's Song." 
HOGAN, Linda. "Rapture," "Journey."   
HOLLEMAN, Marybeth. "Yesterday, on the familiar trail."  
HOLUB, Miroslav. "The Door."  
HORACE. "Ode I. 11."   
HOSTETLER, Sheri. "Instructions."  
HOUSTON, Nancyrose. "The Letter from Home."    
HOWE, Marie. "Annunciation," "What the Living Do," "The Moment."   
HUBBELL, James. "Cathedral."  
HUDGINS, Andrew. "The Yellow Steeple."  
HUFFSTICKLER, Albert. 

• "The Way of Art," "Don't Ask the Angels How They Fly," "The Edge of Doubt," "The Cure."   

HUGHES, Holly. "Mind Wanting More."  
HUJSAK, Edward. "Sorting Things Out."    
HURR, Hanna. "Love's Lullaby."   
IANNONE, Don. "Losing Myself Inside a Japanese Wood Poppy." 
IBN ARABI, Muhyiddin. "There Was a Time."  
IGNATOW, David. "Above Everything," "Content."  
JACCOTTET, Philippe. "Distances." 
JACOBSEN, Josephine. "you can take it with you." 
JACOBSEN, Rolf. "Fireflies," "—When They Sleep," "Just Delicate Needles—."     
JARMAN, Mark. "Coyotes," "After Disappointment."    
JARRELL, Randall. "Well Water."  
JENKINS, Louis. "Diner."
JENSON, Ivan. "Hearing Things." 
JERVE, Janet. "Now," "Evening Vespers."   
JIMÉNEZ, Juan Ramón. "Oceans," "I Am Not I."     
JOHNSON, Caroline. "Blue Sky," "Hauling Water."   
JOHNSON, Gary. "December," "Good Workers."    
JOHNSON, Kate Knapp. "Seeing, In Three Pieces."   
JONES, Richard. "The Spoon," "Rapture."    
JONG, Erica. "You Are There."
JOUDAH, Fady. "Mimesis."  
JUEDS, Kasey. "Claim." 
KABIR. "07" ["Hiding in this cage"], Untitled ["The Guest is inside you"].    
KAGAWA, Toyohiko. "A Prayer."  
KAVANAUGH, James. "I Laugh and Cry with the Same Eyes." 
KEMPA, Rick. "Call It Ours."   
KENNELLY, Brendan. "Begin."   
KENYON, Jane.  

• "Man Eating," "Peonies at Dusk," "Happiness," "Apple Dropping Into Deep Early Snow," "Philosophy in Warm Weather."      

KESTENBAUM, Stuart.  

• "In Praise of Hands," "Psalm," "Prayer for the Dead," "April Prayer."    

KEYES, Roger. "Hokusai Says."

KILBRIDE, Jerry. Selected Haiku. 
KINGSOLVER, Barbara. "Hope; An Owner's Manual."  
KINNELL, Galway.  

• "Saint Francis and the Sow," "Prayer," "Wait," "When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone" [excerpt].  

KLOEFKORN, William.  

• "My Love for All Things Warm and Breathing," Untitled ["I am a dirt farmer"].     

KOCOT, Noelle. "Pride."  
KOMUNYAKAA, Yusef. "Facing It."
KOOSER, Ted.  

• "At the Cancer Clinic," "Mother," "On the Road," Untitled ["Sometimes all it takes"] (with Jim Harrison), "Porch Swing in September," "In January," "A Blind Woman."          

KORT, Ellen. "Advice to Beginners," "Walking on Water." 
KOWIT, Steve. "Notice."  
KRACO, Karen. 

• "Reminder," "To the Owners of the Bungalow at 304 University Ave. NE."

KRAUSHAAR, Mark. "What the Dead Know."   
KRYSL, Marilyn. "Saying Things," "Summer Solstice, Batticaloa, Sri Lanka." 
LAMÉRIS, DANUSHA. "Thinking." 
LANGTON, LeeAnne McIlroy. "The Tree of Knowledge."  
LARSON, Daron. "Recognition." 
LAUX, Dorianne. "For the Sake of Strangers," "Dust," "Morning Song," "Break."     
LAWLESS, Gary. "Treat Each Bear," "when the animals."   
LAWRENCE, D. H. "Escape," "Maximus," "Mystic."   
LEE, David. "November Idyll: After the still life."   
LEE, Li-Young. 

• "One Heart," "From Blossoms," "Praise Them," "Become Becoming."   

LE GUIN, Ursula. "Initiation Song from the Finders Lodge."  
LENFESTEY, James P. "Driving Across Wisconsin." 
LERMAN, Eleanor. "Starfish."  
LEUNIG, Michael. Untitled ["When the heart is cut"].  
LEVERTOV, Denise.  

• "Variation on a Theme by Rilke," "Witness," "Looking, Walking, Being," "Talking to Grief," "February Evening in New York," "About Marriage," "The Breathing," "A Gift," "For the New Year, 1981," "The Thread," "The Love of Morning," "Gloria," "Sojourns in the Parallel World."       

LEVINE, Arlene Gay. "Here Is the Road," "Each Moment."
LEVINE, Philip. "Our Valley," "What Work Is," "Gospel."  
LEVINE, Stephen. 

• "An Echo of Wang Wei's Reply to Vice Magistrate Chang," "Half Life," "Not Knowing." 

LEVITT, Peter. Untitled ["Where you are going"].  
LEWIS, Janet Loxley. "The Wonder of the World." 
LEWIS, J. Patrick. "Make the Earth Your Companion."  
LEWIS, Robert Arthur. "The Painter."   
LIGHTHART, Annie. "The Second Music."  
LIIV, Juhan. "Leaves Fell."  
LINEBERRY, Colleen. "Harmony."   
LOCKE, Carolyn. "What the Rain Left Behind," "What Else."     
LOHMANN, Jeanne.  

• "Rivertalk," "What the Day Gives," "To Say Nothing But Thank You," "Invocation," "Shaking the Tree," "Praise What Comes," "Questions Before Dark."    

LORCA, FEDERICO GARCÍA. "The Silence."    
LORDE, Audre. "Coping."   
LOWELL, Amy. "Bath," "September, 1918."   
LUKAS, Krista. "Morning."   
LUTERMAN, Alison. 

• "I Confess," "Because Even the Word Obstacle Is an Obstacle," "Invisible Work."

MACCAIG, Norman. "Small boy."  
MACHADO, Antonio. "Walking."  
MACKER, Teddy. "Prayer," "A Prayer for My Daughter."    
MACNEICE, Louis. "Snow."   
MADISON, Tamara. 

• "Sequoia Sempervirens," "The Way Sunshine Smells," "What Now Is Like," "Behaving."        

MAHON, Derek. "The Mayo Tao."   

MAJ, Bronislaw. "An August Afternoon," "A Leaf."   
MANDELSTAM, Osip. "A Body Was Given to Me."   
MANFRED, Freya. 

• "Green Pear Tree in September," "To My Son, Laughing in His Sleep." 
  

MARGOLIS, Gary. 

• "Consider Yourself," "I haven't met anyone who hasn't offered me her humanity." 

MARKOVA, Dawna. Untitled ["I Will Not Die an Unlived Life"].  
MARTIN, Lynn. "Under the Walnut Tree." 
MASEFIELD, John. "Tewkesbury Road."   
MASTERS, Edgar Lee. "111. Ernest Hyde."   
MAYER, Peter. "Holy Now." 
MCENTYRE, Marilyn. "What to Do in the Darkness," "Biology: Course Review."     
MCHENRY, Kristen. "In Defense of Gentleness."   
MCHUGH, Heather. "The Size of Spokane."
MCKAY, Linda Back. "On the Meaning of." 
MCMAHON, Ted. "Grapefruit."
MEAD, Jane. "The Geese."    
MEEK, Anna George. 

• "An Old Man Performs Alchemy on His Doorstep at Christmastime."

MENASHE, Samuel. "Here Now," "Now," "Rue."  
MERRIAM, Eve. "Reply to the Question: `How Can You Become a Poet?'"   
MERRILL, Christopher. "A Boy Juggling a Soccer Ball."  
MERTON, Thomas. "In Silence," "Song for Nobody," "When the Shoe Fits."      
MERWIN, W. S. 

• "Thanks," "To Waiting," "Exercise," "To the New Year," "To This May," "The New Song," "By the Front Door," "Just Now," "Parts of a Tune," "Elegy for a Walnut Tree," "A Momentary Creed," "To Myself."      

MEYERS, Susan. "Mother, Washing Dishes."   
MILLAR, Victoria. "Credo."  
MILLAY, Edna St. Vincent. "Afternoon on a Hill."   
MILLER, Betty. "Norimaki Sushi." 
MILLER, Carolyn. 

•  "A Warm Summer in San Francisco," "Rose Garden, Summer Solstice." 

MILLER, Jane. "Ecstasy." 
MILLS, Joseph Robert. 

• "Standing Before Shelves of Cookbooks and Trying to Decide What to Make for Dinner," "A Winter Dialogue."   

MILOSZ, Czeslaw.  

• "Love," "This Only," "Faith," "Eyes," "Encounter," "On Pilgrimage," "Gift," "Hope."     

MING-DAO, Deng. Untitled ["Even in temples"].    

MISTRAL, Gabriela. "Dawn."   
MITCHELL, Adrian. "Human Beings."   
MITCHELL, Mark J. "Samsara Sestina."   
MITCHELL, Stephen. "Psalm 1," "The Baal Shem Tov."
MIYAZAWA, Kenji. "Be Not Defeated by the Rain."    
MNOOKIN, Wendy. "At Sea."   
MOELLER, Eileen. "Dear Ezra."  
MOFFITT, John. "To Look at Anything."
MONAGHAN, Patricia. "Things to Believe In."  
MONTAG, Tom. 

• "Lecturing My Daughter on Her First Fall Rain," "Winter Afternoon, Early December."   

MOORE, Julie L.  "Innocence."   
MOOSE, Ruth. "The Crossing," "Laundry." 
MORAMARCO, Federico. "One Hundred and Eighty Degrees."  
MORGAN, Marlo. Untitled ["Forever Oneness"].  
MORGAN, Robert.  "Honey."    
MORLEY, Hilda. "New York Subway," "Sea-Map."    
MÖRLING, Malena. "Happiness," "Visiting," "Gone," "See High Above."   
MOSS, Ron C. Selection of Haiga.
MUELLER, Lisel. "Losing My Sight." 
MUIR, Edwin. "In Love for Long."    
MURRAY, Les. "The Meaning of Existence."   
MURRE, Ralph. "What Is Given," "The Light This Day." 
MYERS, Jack. "Fragment."