Poem of the Day
Yellow Striped Pajamas
By Shamsher Bahadur Singh
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
Poetry: A-C
The Other Side of the Garden
By William Coleman
Bewildered, he looks at her. She moves closer,
touches his cheek, whispers, what’s lost is ours,
Lines Taken from a Poem on Luck, Unwritten
By Katharine Coles
The body burns its own flesh back to blazes.
So near the fire, I’m cold. Elaborate:
Drawn down from heaven, what touch mesmerizes?
Natural Disasters
By Katharine Coles
1. A mother’s lifelong rage. The slow burn
of a wire behind an old house wall, its paper
ornamental to the last, going
Pantoum in which Time Equals Space
By Katharine Coles
Eugene would say, "Someone died . Time to redecorate."
Everything we owned was secondhand.
We needed to move. We were running out of space.
Pantoum Unproved
By Katharine Coles
First, you take leave of your senses.
Then, you lose your mind
to wonder. Split the difference:
Rocca Maggiore
By Katharine Coles
Neck pulled back. Wrists tied. Weight pops
shoulder from socket. All disjunction.
So many Judgment Days. Hell absorbs us
The Botanical Gardens
By Katharine Coles
And consider the way they are always in progress.
Even after centuries; the way they hide
The speaker but not the voice. The sound
Aristotle
By Billy Collins
This is the beginning .
Almost anything can happen.
As Boats, Over That Darkness
By Martha Collins
The underboat is upside down, blurred, like a reflection.
The reflection of a bridge that isn’t there.
As If You Had Promised
By Martha Collins
to be the water that rocks
the boat to dreams
that tell the poor