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Nancy Jarzombek
illustrations
"I love you as I love the Hatchetfish,"
"with bland eyes gaping like sores,"
"the Sawbelly and the Wolf-eel"
Illustrations from Bathypelagic Love, with the poem "The Ugly" by John Glenday
some words / die / caged -- / they're / difficult / to translate
teach them / how to fly / and one day / they go away / in flocks
Illustrations from Poetry and Birds with the poem "Words are Birds" by Francisco X. Alarcon
They sailed away in a Sieve, they did, in a Sieve they sailed so fast, With only a beautiful pea-green veil
Tied with a riband by way of a sail
To a small tobacco-pipe mast;
And all night long they sailed away; And when the sun went down,
They whistled and warbled a moony song
To the echoing sound of a coppery gong,
In the shade of the mountains brown.
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And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,
And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart,
And a hive of silvery Bees
Illustrations from Lands Where the Jumblies Love with the poem "Jumblies" by Edward Lear
"lots of fish this time, in the net of the heart"
Endpiece
Illustrations to accompany the poem, "Fishing in the Keep of Silence" by Linda Gregg.
Illustrations from Sheltered Place, with "Noust" by John Glenday
"lark for the sun"
"heart in the noust"
From Sheltered Place with the poem "Noust" by John Glenday
Ming, Ming
Such a lovely
thing blue
and white
they would
be lovely
filled with
rice or
water
Illustrations to accompany the poem, "Masterworks of Ming" by Kay Ryan.
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