Poem of the Day
Study of Children
By Asha Futterman
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
Standing in November (as the dead
Brown color seeps into the land),
In waders and in water, with a red
All down the coast
were regiments of jellyfish (men-of-war,
they often congregate at docks);
In the 26th year of my age
I, two ears, two eyes, two hands only
(But only is enough to take the town)
The empty mills brood on the river, grim
with boarded doors and blackened eyes as bleak
as those of men who might have tales to spin
These eyes an accusation.
Or quiet question
Containing its own answer.