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
As, many times, motive is inaccessible, must we get used to the art of the
plausible, and let live? And thrive as prats do on chat shows, toasting
each other in bat juice, and coasting?
I swipe myself again in my rawest spot, my logical dyslexia. I cannot shape up
to formal reasoning any more than I can cope with the tax year.
Evasive souls, of whom the wise lose track,
Die in each night, who, with their day-tongues, sift
The waking-taste of manna or of blood:
The cross staggered him. At the cliff-top
Thomas, beneath its burden, stood
While the dulled wood
Chased down, and baited for the kill,
And naked to men’s eyes,
I struggled blindly a great while
Against the burly air I strode,
Where the tight ocean heaves its load,
Crying the miracles of God.
When snow like sheep lay in the fold
And winds went begging at each door‚
And the far hills were blue with cold,
Poetry as salutation; taste
Of Pentecost’s ashen feast. Blue wounds.
The tongue’s atrocities. Poetry
When snow like sheep lay in the fold
And winds went begging at each door‚
And the far hills were blue with cold,
I looked for rest, though without love.
Since I had found a course to run
Deep as a river in its groove