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
tract wrote school, arm nane of reddening.
self all in evenlies, most of language looking for a landscape.
wriit ence hoar
Skeletal kin
tilt
italic lunacy
The town is a whistler
turn on a rock
The water runs a working curve
Paddles sloshing in tunnel.
Volume: all thumbs.
Dis-ser-vice? Naaa...
out to make
one bird high
above spiralling
all
over
the
body
finishing
touches
Widowers have more dignity.
The flames starting from the ears.
That’s what I say: it’s worth a try.
Instantaneously and repeatedly, Blank serves as a station for our senses, making possible an impression of continuance.
Writing becomes distant and portraits of hosts crowd the space. The next page becomes as cornered and concerned as a studied artifact. Thoughts not towards anything but embodying a lot of writing. Too many military wives are being arrested. The tiny bit of wandering summarized by a spartan attitude of space.