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
The sweetpeas, pale diapers
Of pink and powder blue, are flags
Of a water color republic.
Kowabunga! The amoeba was
mountainous.
Venusian burgers were sailing out
My wife’s recipe for a fairy:
Put buttercup pollen
And a canary feather
Conversation
words=canned reasoning
.
Grammar tells us
“Believing something will happen
Because I don’t want it to
And that some other thing won’t
After the sponge bath
Spice cake and coffee
In a sky blue china cup
I like breathing better than work
but strange is the meat
when it is yanked out of the sky
Light spray over a daisy chain of days.
Many wives, brought on rocking boats,
Dissolve in one loved damsel.
Everything turns into tape. It (check one)
puts the multiples on a loop (1)
reduces all numbers to one (2)
The green world thinks the sun
Into one flower, then outraces
It to the sea in sunken pipes.