Poems by Robert Hass
Faint Music
... he’d reeled in gleaming from the cliffs, the black rockbass, ...
Meditation at Lagunitas
... But I remember so much, the way her hands dismantled bread, ...
Two Views of Buson
... 2 One year after making love through the short midsummer night ...
Interrupted Meditation
... I found that what I thought about was the failure of my marriage, ...
After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
... stretched out all five fingers ...
Between the Wars
... You could wring the sourness of the sumac from the air, ...
Selected Haiku by Issa
... s Day— everything is in blossom! ...
Misery and Splendor
... their brief, sharp cries will reconcile them to the moment ...
Sonnet
... A wish geometry, miniature, Indian or Persian, ...
Measure
... Recurrences. Coppery light hesitates ...
The Nineteenth Century as a Song
... They shed, faintly, amid the clatter of carriages ...
September Notebook: Stories
... * * In the other world the girls were named Eleanor and Filina, ...
Iowa City: Early April
... t orange of the cat, and the first pool of green grass-leaves in early April, and the birdsong&mdash ...
