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
I hate my disordered
backyard fence
I love crystal fringe on a dance frock
and the ripple of light as you pass
in a plain little chemisette bodice
A cherry colored picture hat
of Tagal straw, its only trimming
a black and white big windmill bow
where droop the little ivy shoots
the sun slants down to kiss
the heaps of mellow headstones
The search for health and pleasure
leads to no fairer clime
Visitor to Witley Court
enter at your peril
Forests burn into their clearings. A sense of dread.
We want to see the Statue of Liberty giggling.
It is half life
There is honey in your harmony
I am the one
who skulks in the library