Today’s poem, probably Neruda’s best-known (tr. Stephen Mitchell), goes out to all the June brides. Happy reading.
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Mary Oliver’s “No Matter What”
24/06/2026 | 4 mins.
Today’s poem tangles and untangles the sweet permanence of impermanence. Happy reading.
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Czeslaw Milosz’s “Dedication”
22/06/2026 | 4 mins.
“You whom I could not save/Listen to me./Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed of another./I swear, there is in me no wizardry of words./I speak to you with silence like a cloud or a tree.” Happy reading.
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Joyce Kilmer’s “The House with Nobody In It”
19/06/2026 | 3 mins.
Today’s poem, not a cowboy poem per se, nevertheless tells the story of a frontier mentality and the meeting points of civilization and desolation. Happy reading.
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Bruce Kiskaddon's "When They've Finished Shipping Cattle in the Fall"
17/06/2026 | 4 mins.
Today’s poem is about the memories that come flooding in when the season’s work is done and the cowboy’s body finally relaxes. Happy reading.
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