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
Sheet-monger, blanket-hoarder,
wool gatherer of nightmares,
wrapped in white linen like a corpse,
Somewhere between Norway and Ireland
volcanic rocks and glaciers leap from the sea
My map has failed me, I’m there
Molds are made, two figures cast,
their plaster bodies glistening and since
light across a modulated surface
Show the runner coming through the shadows,
show him falling into a speckled rhythm,
and then show the full expression of light,
Heathrow could not touch things.
They always shied away from him.
He was magnetic, but in the anti-sense of the word.
I smear my lips with lipstick, my cheeks with rouge
Someone has brought potato salad and someone else has brought cole slaw.
She’d gotten into the habit of going nights
to a secret ledge on the apartment house roof
Good old Patrick Casey!
But why should monkeys concern us?