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
Summer was dry
but the farmers forget
and plow the dead stalks under.
How grace made us out, late apples
Quailing already on the branch,
While Frenchmen kissed, I gave man wings.
Reportedly I dreamed of birds. The hills along the post road
once lined the floor of a vast inland sea; behind the foundry,
sun is first coming through the eucalyptus early morning
the question you asked
in the center of the world we were making
Undone. Only a head, a fine
cheek and throat his chisel cut
from white. She waits to become a thought,
When I was a teacher
I taught the truth, viz.,
The two great levelers are
Night arrives solid and heavy
more than several blocks long—to displace
its weight and float like a tanker over us.
when out walked I
down fell the sky,
a backward boom
His kind decree: we should not cut ourselves
Upon sharp edges;
So, when that parent rib was fleshed,