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
In the night, when the newspaper’s
proofreader died
he died without reading the proof.
if ever again
with the waves
the dog’s way east
1. THE CHANTING IN TIBET HAS NOT CEASED IT IS AS IMMORTAL AS MEAT IS.
2. HORNS, CYMBALS, AND LIGHTNING BOLTS OVER GLACIERS.
3. BEARDED SEA OTTERS CRACKING MUSSELS ON STONES ON THEIR STOMACHS.
It was no more than the description of a burst of rain
and handkerchiefs of lightning which burned the secret of trees—
then why did they resist her?
Conversation
words=canned reasoning
.
Grammar tells us
when i’m in someone else’s new york style apartment
i like virtually anything that’s playing on the fm radio
when i’m at home i can’t find anything that i like
We were wise to say.
Goodbye, cheap lamps
Serene and purple twilight of the South
the wind-distorted olives
so dim beside the road
We cannot fight on this glue
give us the bread we are used to
For her size the moor hen
lays a large egg
and many of them