A Painting of a Falcon

Memorable portrait
of a blue falcon
 
the white silk
gives off wind and frost
 
is he watching fiercely
for a rabbit?
 
angry foreigner
he looks at me askance
 
he has a chain and ring
ready to unfasten
 
I could almost
take him off his perch
 
send him out to find
some of those little larks
 
scatter blood and feathers
on the prairie.

........................from Du Fu, A Life in Poetry (Knopf, 2008)

Previous Poems of the Month on one page.

Poem from April, 2008
The Self: A Sonnet Sequence

Poem from March, 2008
A Lowercase Alphabet

Poem from February, 2008
Chopping Garlic

Poem from January, 2008
A Calendar: The Beautiful Names of the Months

Poem from December, 2007
The Poem of the Cold

Poem from November, 2007
At the Back of the Year in a High Wind

Poem from October, 2007
October's Stem and Head-Piece

Poem from September, 2007
Poem About Hopping

Poem from August, 2007
Putting My Father's Ashes in the Cemetary at Springville Iowa

Poem from July, 2007
Vermont Summer: Three Snapshots, One Letter

Poem from June, 2007
from "Four Songs on a Bone Flute"

Poem from May, 2007
Waking Home on an Early Spring Evening

Poem from April, 2007
Easter Ghazal

Poem from March, 2007
from "Water Diary" (Boxcars, 1973)

Poem from February, 2007
Section 10 of "Dancing in the Dark,"
from "Poem in Three Parts," Earthshine

Poem from January, 2007
Two New Year's Poems by DU FU

Poem from December, 2006
Christmas: Ohio and Capolongo

Poem from November, 2006
Three Time-Trips

Poem from October, 2006
October Couplets

Poem from September, 2006
Mesa Verde

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