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: G-I
Pastorale II
By Kenneth Irby
The fog lies thick over the bay,
above Mt. Tamalpais
Juvescence of Autumn
By Mark Irwin
At dusk the ambulance came
pulling all the way up onto the lawn
like a red speed boat drifting
Robert Mapplethorpe's Photograph of Apollo (1988)
By Mark Irwin
What’s missing is the body, its nakedness wrapped
in marble. What’s missing is the hair, the floating hair
that falls in chalky tendrils. Only the face, huge
Four Poems
By Benjamin Ivry
In a PBS documentary, from a drawer
the ballerina pulled a love poem
penned by the late choreographer