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
He remembered his body.
Thick thighs stood him shoulder high,
fists pounded out the one shape
In scrolled aves
and erect
seraphic wings,
What were those days like? Remembering
is like remembering
The day without question will come for you.
You will be ready, you are always so,
Ready for beauty to be its opposite,
arch film duds
“Cheever” can aiming laps
dorm sieve
a one that
you and comb
a was what it to ran here in that was a
in could both
whose
on posite
g'up t'it
lengths
passle a
I wish I had one of those electronic keyboards where you can plug in pre-recorded sounds that correspond to different keys. I’d compose an homage to insomnia— barking dogs and hammer blows and car alarms played over and over, the inverse of a lullaby‚ a score without a shred of respite.
Why do I see my house as a second body?
The disposition of the bed
like a hungry mouth? the dining room table