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’m constructing my own brierpatch. True,
I’m bleeding from the long canes just dug in;
I’ll buy that “collage blouse”
as advertised “prismatic with
faux coins and stones”
Hung, awfully, over the valley
on this remote escarpment,
They said she chose to go to him.
of her own volition. I know otherwise.
I am a word of one,
The early days subscribed to us,
first warming to our blandishments,
I hate bow ties. Allow me to digress.
Remember that leafy aphorisms
sometimes grow out of idle burbling
Your eyes are closed, your solemn face upraised,
features transfigured in the fading sun.
I’ve moved to be near you. My new address
is posted daily in the lost and found.
Your silences are far from obvious.
If you were with me, I’d be thinking
of a drive out to the white lake
even though it’s raining.